'Business' in the Bible

But when food was set before him to eat, he said, “I will not eat until I have told my business.” And he said, “Speak on.”

So the men said to her, “Our life for yours if you do not tell this business of ours; and it shall come about when the Lord gives us the land that we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”

But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be free from the oath which you have made us swear.”

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; and the man was very rich, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel

If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king’s business, to put into the king’s treasuries.”

Even all the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and those who were doing the king’s business assisted the Jews, because the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them.

Those who go down to the sea in ships,Who do business on great waters;

Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up again and carried on the king’s business; but I was astounded at the vision, and there was none to explain it.

But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business,

And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this until I come back.’

When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done.

For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen;

these he gathered together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.

and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”