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Strong's #4097: piotes (pronounced pee-ot'-ace)

contracted from perao (to traverse; from the base of 4008); to traffic (by travelling), i.e. dispose of as merchandise or into slavery (literally or figuratively):--sell.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pipraskō / praō

1) to sell

1a) of price, one into slavery

1b) of the master to whom one is sold as a slave

2) metaphorically

2a) sold under sin, entirely under the control of the love of sinning

2b) of one bribed to give himself up wholly to another' s will

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a reduplicated and prolonged form of prao, (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses), contracted from perao (to traverse, from the base of G4008)

Citing in TDNT: 6:160, 846




Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

Matthew 13:46: "pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and"
Matthew 18:25: "lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and"
Matthew 26:9: "this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor."
Mark 14:5: "For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and"
John 12:5: "was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given"
Acts 2:45: "And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them"
Acts 4:34: "them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,"
Acts 5:4: "While it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in"
Romans 7:14: "I am carnal, sold under sin."









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