STRONGS NUMBER G4229


Word Summary
pragma: a deed, a matter
Original Word: πρᾶγμα
Transliteration: pragma
Phonetic Spelling: (prag'-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a deed, a matter
Meaning: a deed, a matter
Strong's Concordance
business, matter, thing, work.

From prasso; a deed; by implication, an affair; by extension, an object (material) -- business, matter, thing, work.

see GREEK prasso

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4229: πρᾶγμα

πρᾶγμα, πράγματος, τό (πράσσω), from (Pindar), Aeschylus, Herodotus down, the Sept. chiefly for דָּבָר a. that which has been done, a deed, an accomplished fact: Luke 1:1; Acts 5:4; 2 Corinthians 7:11; Hebrews 6:18.

b. what is doing or being accomplished: James 3:16; specifically, business (commercial transaction), 1 Thessalonians 4:6 (so Winers Grammar, 115 (109); others refer this example to c. and render in the matter (spoken of, or conventionally understood; cf. Green, Gram., p. 26f)).

c. a matter (in question), affair: Matthew 18:19; Romans 16:2; specifically, in a forensic sense, a matter at law, case, suit (Xenophon, mem. 2, 9, 1; Demosthenes, 1120, 26; Josephus, Antiquities 14, 10, 17): πρᾶγμα ἔχειν πρός τινα (A. V. having a matter against, etc.), 1 Corinthians 6:1.

d. that which is or exists, a thing: Hebrews 10:1; πράγματα οὐ βλεπόμενα, Hebrews 11:1 (see ἐλπίζω).*,