Occupy - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Occupy

[ 1,,G4043, peripateo ]
to walk," is sometimes used of the state in which one is living, or of that to which a person is given, e.g., Hebrews 13:9, "(meats, wherein they that) occupied themselves," RV (marg., "walked;" AV, "have been occupied"), i.e., exercising themselves about different kinds of food, regarding some as lawful, others as unlawful (referring especially to matters of the ceremonial details of the law).

Notes:

(1) For "occupy," in the AV of Luke 19:13, See TRADE.

(2) For "occupieth," in the AV of 1 Corinthians 14:16, See FILL, No. 2.

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