Word Summary
pragmateia: careful application, hard work
Original Word: πραγματείαTransliteration: pragmateia
Phonetic Spelling: (prag-mat-i'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: careful application, hard work
Meaning: careful application, hard work
Strong's Concordance
negotiation, transaction
From pragmateuomai; a transaction, i.e. Negotiation -- affair.
see GREEK pragmateuomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4230: πραγματείαπραγματεία (
T WH πραγματια; see Iota),
πραγματείας,
ἡ (
πραγματεύομαι), prosecution of any affair;
business, occupation: plural with the addition of
τοῦ βίου, pursuits and occupations pertaining to civil life, opposed to warfare (
A. V. the affairs of this life),
2 Timothy 2:4 (In the same and other senses in Greek writings from (
Hippocrates),
Xenophon,
Plato down.)