action

Greek Noun Female

πρᾶξις, -εως, ἡ (πράσσω), [in LXX: 2Ch.13:22 27:7 28:26 (דֶּרֶךְ), Job.24:5 A (פֹּעַל), Pro.13:13, Wis.9:11, al;] 1) a doing, deed, act: Mat.16:27; pl, π. ἀποσπτόλων, Ac, title; in late writers especially of wicked deeds or practices (frequently in Polyb.): Luk.23:51; p1, Rom.8:13, Col.3:9; with ref. to magic (see BS, 3235), Act.19:18. 2) an acting, action, business, function: Rom.12:4. (AS)

action

Greek Noun Female

πρᾶξις, εως, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πρῆξις, ιος, ἡ: (πράσσω):— doing, transaction, business, [πλεῖν] κατὰ πρῆξιν on a trading voyage, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. δ᾽ ἥδ᾽ ἰδίη, οὐ δήμιος a private, not a public affair, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡ περί τινος π. the transaction respecting, [Refs 5th c.BC+] 2) result or issue of a business, especially good result, success, οὐ γάρ τις πρῆξις πέλεται. γόοιο no good comes of weeping, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; λυμαίνεσθαί τινι τὴν π. to spoil one's market, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. φίλαν δίδοι grant a happy issue. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ταχεῖά γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν π. their issue, [Refs 5th c.BC+] II) doing, τῶν ἀγαθῶν (of persons) πρήξιες [Refs 6th c.BC+]; achievement, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. πολεμική, πολιητική, πολιτική, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; action, opposed to πάθος, [Refs]; opposed to ἕξις, [Refs]; moral action, opposed to ποίησις, τέχνη, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ποιότης, [Refs]; opposed to οἱ πολιτικοὶ λόγοι, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι ὄντα τε καὶ πραττόμενα exhibited in actual life, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; action in drama, opposed to λόγος, [Refs 4th c.BC+] II.2) action, exercise, χειρῶν, σκελῶν, στόματος, φωνῆς, διανοίας, [Refs 5th c.BC+] II.3) euphemistic for sexual intercourse, [Refs 5th c.BC+] II.4) magical operation, spell, [Refs] III) action, act, [Refs 5th c.BC+] III.b) military action, battle, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] IV) doing, faring well or ill, fortune, state, condition, ἀπέκλαιε. τὴν ἑωυτοῦ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+] V) practical ability, π. καὶ σύνεσις [Refs 2nd c.BC+] V.2) practice, i.e. trickery, treachery, ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν [Refs]; κατὰ τῆς πόλεως, ἐπὶ τοὺς Αἰτωλούς, [Refs] VI) exaction of money, recovery of debts, arrears, etc, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρὰ Ἀρτέμωνος. ἔστω ἡ π. τοῖς δανείσασι let the lenders have an action of recovery against Artemon, Syngr. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ π. τῶν καταδικασθέντων [Refs 4th c.BC+] VI.2) exaction of vengeance, retribution, βαρβάρων χάριν γάμων πρᾶξιν ὡς Ἑλλὰς λάβοι [Refs 5th c.BC+] VII) public office, ἡ διοικηθεῖσα π. Epist. Macrin. cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+] VIII) discourse, lecture of a rhetorician or philosopher, [Refs 4th c.AD+]

Greek

Noun Feminine

practice, i.e. (concretely) an act; by extension, a function; deed, office, work; from g4238 (πράσσω)