STRONGS G4234:
πρᾶξις,
πράξεως,
ἡ (
πράσσω), from
Homer down;
a. a doing, a mode of acting; a deed, act, transaction: universally,
πράξεις τῶν ἀποστόλων (Griesbach;
Rec. inserts
ἁγίων,
L Tr WH omit
τῶν,
Tdf. has simply
πράξεις),
the doings of (i. e. things done by)
the apostles, in the inscription of the Acts; singular in an ethical sense: both good and bad,
Matthew 16:27; in a bad sense, equivalent to wicked deed,
crime, Luke 23:51; plural
wicked doings (cf. our practices i. e.
trickery; often so by
Polybius):
Acts 19:18;
Romans 8:13;
Colossians 3:9; (with
κακῇ added, as
Ev. Nicod. 1
Ἰησοῦς ἐθεράπευσε δαιμονιζομένους ἀπό πράξεων κακῶν).
b. a thing to be done, business (
A. V. office) (
Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 6):
Romans 12:4.
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