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Business
King James Dictionary
or BUSINESS, n. biz'ness. See Busy. Employment that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement--a word of extensive use and indefinite signification. Business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural number, businesses. Business is also any temporary employment.
1. Affairs concerns as, a man leaves his business in an unsettled state.
2. The subject of employment that which engages the care and attention.
You are so much the business of our souls.
3. Serious engagement important occupation,in distinction from trivial affairs.
It should be the main business of life to serve God, and obey his commands.
4. Concern right of action or interposing.
"What business has a man with the disputes of others?"
5. A point a matter of question something to be examined or considered.
Fitness to govern is a perplexed business.
6. Something to be done employment of importance to one's interest, opposed to amusement as, we have no business in town.
They were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any one.
7. Duty, or employment that duty enjoins. A lawyer's business is to do justice to his clients.
To do the business for a man, is to kill, destroy or ruin him.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Business'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/b/business.html.
