Words the Bible translates as practice
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- prassōπράσσωto do, carry out, or practice something: to perform an action or keep up a pattern of conduct.
+2 more meanings
- to exact, collect, or demand money owed: taxes, interest, or a debt.
- to fare, to be in a certain condition: how things stand or go for someone.
- ethosἔθοςan established practice: the way something is regularly and expectedly done, settled by long use rather than by fresh command
- hexisἕξιςhabit/practicenot studied yet
- sunētheiaσυνήθειαan established custom: an accepted, repeated way of doing things that a group takes for granted
+1 more meaning
- being accustomed to something: the ingrained habit of a former way of life that still shapes a person
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