πρᾶξις, εως,
Ep. and Ion. πρῆξις, ιος, ἡ: ( πράσσω ): -
doing, transaction, business, [ πλεῖν] κατὰ πρῆξιν on a trading voyage, Od. 3.72; ἐπὶ πρῆξιν ἔπλεον h.Ap. 397; π. δ’ ἥδ’ ἰδίη, οὐ δήμιος a private, not a public affair, Od. 3.82; π. μηδὲ φίλοισιν ὅμως ἀνακοινέο πᾶσιν Thgn. 73; ἡ περί τινος π. the transaction respecting . ., Th. 6.88 .
2. result or issue of a business, esp. good result, success, οὐ γάρ τις πρῆξις πέλεται . . γόοιο no good comes of weeping, Il. 24.524; οὔ τις π. ἐγίγνετο μυρομένοισιν Od. 10.202; λυμαίνεσθαί τινι τὴν π. to spoil one’s market, X. An. 1.3.16; π. φίλαν δίδοι grant a happy issue. Pi. O. 1.85; π. οὐρίαν θέλων A. Ch. 814 (lyr.); ταχεῖά γ’ ἦλθε χρησμῶν π. their issue, Id. Pers. 739; ἄνευ τούτων οὐκ ἂν εἵη π. X. Cyn. 2.2; δὸς πόρον καὶ π. τῷ τόπῳ τούτῳ PMag.Par. 1.2366 .
II doing, τῶν ἀγαθῶν (of persons) πρήξιες Thgn. 1026; ἡ τῶν ἀγαθῶν π. Pl. Chrm. 163e; ἡ π. τῶν ἔργων Antipho 3.4.9; achievement, Th. 3.114; π. πολεμική, πολιητική, πολιτική, Pl. R. 399a, Sph. 266d, Men. 99b; action, opp. πάθος, Id. Lg. 876d; opp. ἕξις, Id. R. 434a; moral action, opp. ποίησις, τέχνη, Arist. EN 1140a2, 1097a16; opp. ποιότης, Id. Po. 1450a18, cf. EN 1178a35 (pl.); ἤθη καὶ πάθη καὶ π. Id. Po. 1447a28; opp. οἱ πολιτικοὶ λόγοι, D. 61.44; ἔργῳ καὶ πράξεσιν, οὐχὶ λόγοις Id. 6.3; ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι ὄντα τε καὶ πραττόμενα exhibited in actual life, Pl. Phdr. 271d; action in drama, opp. λόγος, Arist. Po. 1454a18; μία π. ὅλη καὶ τελεία ib. 1459a19, cf. 1451b33 (pl.).
2. action, exercise, χειρῶν, σκελῶν, στόματος, φωνῆς, διανοίας, Pl. La. 192a .
3. euphem. for sexual intercourse, Pi. Fr. 127, Aeschin. 1.158, etc.; in full, ἡ π. ἡ γεννητική Arist. HA 539b20 .
4. magical operation, spell, PMag.Par. 1.1227, al., PMag.Lond. 125.40.
III action, act, S. OT 895 (lyr., pl.), OC 560, etc.; μιᾶς μόνον μνησθήσομαι π. Isoc. 12.127 . military action, battle, Plb. 3.19.11, etc. doing, faring well or ill, fortune, state, condition, ἀπέκλαιε . . τὴν ἑωυτοῦ π. Hdt. 3.65, cf. A. Pr. 695 (lyr.), S. Aj. 790, 792; εύτυχὴς π. Id. Tr. 294; κακαὶ π. Id. Ant. 1305 . practical ability, π. καὶ σύνεσις Plb. 2.47.5; ἡ ἐν τοῖς πολεμικοῖς π. Id. 4.77.1 .
2. practice, i.e. trickery, treachery, ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν Id. 2.9.2; κατὰ τῆς πόλεως, ἐπὶ τοὺς Αἰτωλούς, Id. 4.71.6, 5.96.4 .
exaction of money, recovery of debts, arrears, etc., IG 12.57.13, al.; συμβολαίων πράξεις And. 1.88; τοῦ μισθοῦ Pl. Prt. 328b; τελῶν Id. R. 425d (pl.); παρὰ Ἀρτέμωνος . . ἔστω ἡ π. τοῖς δανείσασι let the lenders have an action of recovery against Artemon, Syngr. ap. D. 35.12, cf. SIG 364.61,67 (Ephesus, iii B.C. ), Test.Epict. 5.31; ἡ π. ἔστω καθάπερ ἐκ δίκης PEleph. 1.12 (iv B.C.), etc.; αἱ π. τῶν καταδικασθέντων Arist. Pol. 1321b42 .
2. exaction of vengeance, retribution, βαρβάρων χάριν γάμων πρᾶξιν ὡς Ἑλλὰς λάβοι E. IA 272 (lyr.). public office, ἡ διοικηθεῖσα π. Epist. Macrin. ap. Hdn. 5.1.2 . discourse, lecture of a rhetorician or philosopher, Jul. Or. 2.59c, Marin. Procl. 22.
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, [Mat 16:27]; in a bad sense, equivalent to wicked deed, crime, [Luk 23:51]; plural wicked doings (cf. our practices i. e. trickery; often so by Polybius): [Act 19:18]; [Rom 8:13]; [Col 3:9]; (with κακῇ added, as Ev. Nicod. 1Ἰησοῦς ἐθεράπευσε δαιμονιζομένους ἀπό πράξεων κακῶν).
b. a thing to be done, business (A. V. office) (Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 6): [Rom 12:4].
πρᾶξις , - εως , ἡ
( < πράσσω ),
[in LXX : [2Ch 13:22]; [2Ch 27:7]; [2Ch 28:26] (H1870), [Job 24:5] A (H6467), [Pro 13:13], Wis 9:11 , al. ;]
1. a doing, deed, act: [Mat 16:27]; pl ., Papyri ἀποσπτόλων , Ac, title,; in late writers especially of wicked deeds or practices ( freq . in Polyb .): [Luk 23:51]; p1 ., [Rom 8:13], [Col 3:9]; with ref. to magic ( v. BS , 3235), [Act 19:18].
2. an acting, action, business, function: [Rom 12:4]. †