Occupy
King James Dictionary [1]
Oc'Cupy, L occupo ob and capio, to seize or take.
1. To take possession. The person who first occupies land which has no owner, has the right of property. 2. To keep in possession to possess to hold or keep for use. The tenant occupies a farm under a lease of twenty one years. A lodger occupies an apartment a man occupies the chair in which he sits. 3. To take up to possess to cover or fill. The camp occupies five acres of ground. Air may be so rarefied as to occupy a vast space. The writing occupies a sheet of paper, or it occupies five lines only. 4. To employ to use.
The archbishop may have occasion to occupy more chaplains than six.
5. To employ to busy one's self. Every man should be occupied, or should occupy himself, in some useful labor. 6. To follow, as business.
All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. Ezekiel 27 .
7. To use to expend.
All the gold that was occupied for the work - Exodus 38 . Not now in use.
OC'CUPY, To follow business to negotiate.
Occupy till I come. Luke 19 .
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"to walk," is sometimes used of the state in which one is living, or of that to which a person is given, e.g., Hebrews 13:9 , "(meats, wherein they that) occupied themselves," RV (marg., "walked;" AV, "have been occupied"), i.e., exercising themselves about different kinds of food, regarding some as lawful, others as unlawful (referring especially to matters of the ceremonial details of the law).
Luke 19:13Trade. 1—Corinthians 14:16Fill
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. i.) To follow business; to traffic.
(2): ( v. t.) To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground.
(3): ( v. t.) To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
(4): ( v. t.) To use; to expend; to make use of.
(5): ( v. i.) To hold possession; to be an occupant.
(6): ( v. t.) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
(7): ( v. t.) To do business in; to busy one's self with.
(8): ( v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
OCCUPY . The ‘occupier’ of Ezekiel 27:27 is a ‘trader,’ and ‘to occupy’ ( Ezekiel 27:9 , Luke 19:13 ) is ‘to trade.’ The original meaning of the Eng. word is to be engaged in anything.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
ok´ū́ - pı̄ : Is in the King James Version the translation of 7 different words: (1) נתן , nāthan ; (2) סחר , ṣāḥar ; (3) ערב , ‛ārabh ; (4) עשׂה , ‛āsāh , either with or without the added word, מלאכה , melā'khāh ; (5) ἀναπληροῦν , anaplēroun ; (6) περιπατεῖν , peripateı́n ; (7) πραγματεύειν , pragmateúein . In almost every case the meanings of "to occupy" as used in the King James Version in harmony with the common usage of the time have become obsolete. (1) In Ezekiel 27:16 , Ezekiel 27:19 , Ezekiel 27:22 , nāthan meant "to trade," and the Revised Version (British and American) reads "traded." (2) From ṣāḥar , "to go about," was derived a designation of "merchants" (Revised Version) ( Ezekiel 27:21 ). (3) ‛Ārabh ( Ezekiel 27:9 ) signifies "to exchange" (the English Revised Version and the American Revised Version margin, but the American Standard Revised Version "deal in"). (4) ‛āsāh ( Exodus 38:24 ) means simply "to use" (Revised Version), and the same word in Judges 16:11 , with melā'khāh ("work") added, signifies that work had been done (Revised Version). (5) In 1 Corinthians 14:16 , "occupy," the King James Version rendering of anaplēroun , would still be as intelligible to most as the Revised Version (British and American) "fill." (6) "Occupy" in Hebrews 13:9 , in the sense of "being taken up with a thing," is the translation (both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)) of peripatein , literally, "to walk." Finally (7) pragmateuein ( Luke 19:13 ) is rendered in the King James Version "occupy" in its obsolete sense of "trade" (Revised Version).
