Bible Encyclopedia: Barter

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Greek

4453. poleo -- to exchange or barter, to sell
... to exchange or barter, to sell. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: poleo Phonetic
Spelling: (po-leh'-o) Short Definition: I sell Definition: I sell, exchange ...
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4231. pragmateuomai -- to busy oneself
... 4229 , "a matter, what is pragmatic") -- properly, the ancient mercantile term for
(exchanging) to make gain, ie to do business (barter etc.); , exchanging ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8545. temurah -- exchange, recompense
... exchanging, recompense, restitution. From muwr; barter, compensation --
(ex-)change(-ing), recompense, restitution. see HEBREW muwr. 8544, 8545. ...
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6148. arab -- to take on pledge, give in pledge, exchange
... A primitive root; to braid, ie Intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter);
also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange) -- engage, (inter ...
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3739. karah -- to trade, get by trade
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to trade, get by trade NASB Word Usage bargain
(1), barter (1), bought (1), purchase (1). buy, prepare. ...
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4171. mur -- to change
... exchange, remove. A primitive root; to alter; by implication, to barter, to dispose
of -- X at all, (ex-)change, remove. 4170, 4171. mur. 4172 . ...
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Library

To a Mantellata of Saint Dominic Called Catarina Di Scetto
... And thus we ought to do; if men are untrue to us, we ought to be true to them, and
faithfully to seek their salvation; loving them of grace, and not by barter. ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to a mantellata of saint.htm

Worthy-Not Worthy
... Every man is born with a Pharisee in himself, who thinks that religion is a matter
of barter, that it is so much work, buying so much favour here, or heaven ...
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The Evolution of a Father
... Among barbarous nations marriage is not a case of love, but of capture; among the
semi-barbarous it is a case of barter; and among the imperfectly civilized ...
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History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 2
... of handicraftsmen -- Aspect of the towns: houses, furniture, women in family life --
Festivals; periodic markets, bazaars: commerce by barter, the weighing of ...
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The Preface
... Men barter vices, and as if each had not enough of his own growth, transplant out
of his neighbors soil, and that which was intended to cultivate and civilize ...
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The Birth of a Movement.
... Brought up under the influence of the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they prized
too highly their religious liberty to barter it for lands or gold, and ...
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Grace Abounding
... buy wine and milk," but is it not added "Without money and without price?" "I will
love them freely;" that is "I will not accept their works in barter for my ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 9 1863/grace abounding.htm

Christian Unity.
... Better that a man be "narrow" than that he be so "broad" as to take in "the devil
and all his angels." Out upon our folly when we barter away the truth of God ...
/.../rees/the heart-cry of jesus/chapter v christian unity.htm

Besides These Men, There is Still Another Class, -- Inventors of ...
... and producers; in the social functions, only labor of the hands:"to labor, to sow,
to reap, to hew, to build, to forge, to weave, to barter, to exchange, to ...
/.../lamartine/atheism among the people/ix besides these men there.htm

30TH DAY. A Crown of Life.
... princes and monarchs of the earth wade through seas of blood for a corruptible crown;
and wilt thou permit thyself to lose the incorruptible, or barter it for ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

2. (v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

3. (n.) The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.

4. (n.) The thing given in exchange.

Thesaurus

Barter (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an
unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away ...
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Trade (33 Occurrences)
... 4. (v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter,
or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. ...
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Leaks (3 Occurrences)
... 9 The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee repairing thy leaks;
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee, to barter with thee ...
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Traffic (12 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent
in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade. ...
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Buying (12 Occurrences)
... course, no organized commerce. Yet they buy and sell, by barter and exchange,
in rude and simple ways. When tribes become settled ...
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Bargain (7 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one
horse for another. ... (See RSV). Job 41:6 Will traders barter for him? ...
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Cost (28 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase,
acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or ...
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Trader (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and
selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies ...
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Traders (31 Occurrences)
... or twice. (BBE NAS). Job 41:6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part
him among the merchants? (WEB BBE NAS RSV NIV). Proverbs ...
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Repairing (12 Occurrences)
... 9 The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee repairing thy leaks;
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee, to barter with thee ...
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Bible Concordance

Barter (5 Occurrences)

Job 6:27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
(See NAS NIV)

Job 41:6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
(WEB NIV)

Lamentations 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 27:9 The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee repairing thy leaks; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee, to barter with thee.
(DBY RSV)

Ezekiel 27:27 Thy substance, and thy markets, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, they that repair thy leaks, and they that barter with thee, and all thy men of war that are in thee, along with all thine assemblage which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Barter

Related Terms

Trade (33 Occurrences)

Leaks (3 Occurrences)

Traffic (12 Occurrences)

Buying (12 Occurrences)

Bargain (7 Occurrences)

Cost (28 Occurrences)

Trader (7 Occurrences)

Traders (31 Occurrences)

Repairing (12 Occurrences)