Topic
Occupy
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 38:24ISBE
All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
- Judges 16:11ISBE
And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
- Ezekiel 27:9ISBE
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
- Ezekiel 27:16ISBE
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
- Ezekiel 27:19ISBE
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
- Ezekiel 27:21ISBE
Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
- Ezekiel 27:22ISBE
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
- Luke 19:13ISBE
And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
- 1 Corinthians 14:16ISBE
Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
- Hebrews 13:9ISBE
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 10 references
ok'-u-pi: Is in the King James Version the translation of 7 different words:
(1) nathan;
(2) cachar;
(3) `arabh;
(4) `asah, either with or without the added word, mela'khah;
(5) anapleroun;
(6) peripatein;
(7) pragmateuein.
In almost every case the meanings of "to occupy" as used in the King James Version in harmony with the common usage of the time have become obsolete.
(1) In Eze 27:16,19,22, nathan meant "to trade," and the Revised Version (British and American) reads "traded."
(2) From cachar, "to go about," was derived a designation of "merchants" (Revised Version) (Eze 27:21).
(3) `Arabh (Eze 27:9) signifies "to exchange" (the English Revised Version and the American Revised Version margin, but the American Standard Revised Version "deal in").
(4) `asah (Ex 38:24) means simply "to use" (Revised Version), and the same word in Jud 16:11, with mela'khah ("work") added, signifies that work had been done (Revised Version).
(5) In 1Co 14:16, "occupy," the King James Version rendering of anapleroun, would still be as intelligible to most as the Revised Version (British and American) "fill."
(6) "Occupy" in Heb 13:9, in the sense of "being taken up with a thing," is the translation (both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)) of peripatein, literally, "to walk." Finally
(7) pragmateuein (Lu 19:13) is rendered in the King James Version "occupy" in its obsolete sense of "trade" (Revised Version).
David Foster Estes
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.