Strongs Number: G4097
- Greek Word
- πιπράσκω
- Transliteration
- pipraskō praō
- Phonetic
- pip-ras'-ko prah'-o
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Strongs Definition
-
contracted from περάω peraō (to traverse; from the base of G4008); to traffic (by travelling) that is dispose of as merchandise or into slavery (literally or figuratively)
- Thayers Definition
-
1. to sell
a. of price, one into slavery
b. of the master to whom one is sold as a slave
2. metaph.
a. sold under sin, entirely under the control of the love of sinning
b. of one bribed to give himself up wholly to another's will
- Origin
- The first is a reduplicated and prolonged form of the second (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses)
- Bible Usage
- sell.