Business
Bible Usage:
- business used 29 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 39:11
- Last Reference: 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1697 Used 8 times
- H4399 Used 12 times
- H4639 Used 1 time
- H6045 Used 2 times
- G3588 Used 1 time
- G4229 Used 1 time
- G4238 Used 1 time
- G4710 Used 1 time
- G5532 Used 1 time
BUSINESS, noun biz'ness. [See Busy.] Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement--a word of extensive use and indefinite signification. business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural number, businesses. business is also any temporary employment.
1. Affairs; concerns; as, a man leaves his business in an unsettled state.
2. The subject of employment; that which engages the care and attention.
You are so much the business of our souls.
3. Serious engagement; important occupation, in distinction from trivial affairs.
It should be the main business of life to serve God, and obey his commands.
4. Concern; right of action or interposing.
'What business has a man with the disputes of others?'
5. A point; a matter of question; something to be examined or considered.
Fitness to govern is a perplexed business
6. Something to be done; employment of importance to one's interest, opposed to amusement; as, we have no business in town.
They were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any one.
7. Duty, or employment that duty enjoins. A lawyer's business is to do justice to his clients.
To do the business for a man, is to kill, destroy or ruin him.
Bible Usage:
- business used 29 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 39:11
- Last Reference: 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1697 Used 8 times
- H4399 Used 12 times
- H4639 Used 1 time
- H6045 Used 2 times
- G3588 Used 1 time
- G4229 Used 1 time
- G4238 Used 1 time
- G4710 Used 1 time
- G5532 Used 1 time