πρᾶγμα: PRAGMA; THING

Illustrations of English words
derived from the Greek in the New Testament.

Gaylon West.


History of English word
"Pragma" in English is an abbreviation for pragmatic (an adjective).

"The word pragmatic has been busy over its more than four centuries of use. Its earliest meanings were "busy," "meddlesome," and "opinionated," but those are now considered archaic uses. The word continues, as it has since the late 19th century, to be used in reference to the philosophical movement of pragmatism (see sense 2). And, as Merriam-Webster Unabridged reports, it also continues to be used in the field of history to describe that which deals with historical events in a way that shows their interconnection. Most often, however, we encounter pragmatic when it is being used to describe people—sometimes ourselves"

"A person who is pragmatic is concerned more with matters of fact than with what could or should be. A pragmatic person's realm is results and consequences." -Merriam-Webster .

etymonline.com
"pragmatic (adj.)1610s, "meddlesome, impertinently busy," short for earlier pragmatical, or else from Middle French pragmatique (15c.), from Latin pragmaticus "skilled in business or law," from Greek pragmatikos "fit for business, active, business-like; systematic," from pragma (genitive pragmatos) "a deed, act; that which has been done; a thing, matter, affair," especially an important one; also a euphemism for something bad or disgraceful; in plural, "circumstances, affairs" (public or private), often in a bad sense, "trouble," literally "a thing done," from stem of prassein/prattein "to do, act, perform" (see practical). Meaning "matter-of-fact" is from 1853. In some later senses from German pragmatisch."
Derived words: pragmatism (n.)"matter-of-fact treatment," 1825, from Greek pragmat-, stem of pragma "that which has been done" (see pragmatic) + -ism. As a philosophical doctrine
pragmatic (adj.)1610s, "meddlesome, impertinently busy," short for earlier pragmatical, or else from Middle French pragmatique (15c.), from Latin pragmaticus "skilled in business or law," from Greek pragmatikos "fit for business, active, business-like; systematic," from pragma (genitive pragmatos) "a deed, act; that which has been done; a thing, matter, affair," especially an important one; also a euphemism for something bad or disgraceful;
pragmaticism (n.)1865, "officiousness," from pragmatic + -ism. From 1905 as a term in philosophy by American philosopher C.S. Peirce (1839-1914).
pragmatical (adj.)1590s, "concerned with practical results,"
Pragmatist (1630s as "busybody;" 1892 as "adherent of a pragmatic philosophy").

BIBLE PASSAGES (using G4229):
Mat 18:19 "Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing G4229 that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. "
Luk 1:1 "Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things G4229 which are most surely believed among us,"
Act 5:4 " Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing G4229 in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. to lie to the Holy Spirit."
Rom 16:2 " That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business G4229 she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. "
1Co 6:1 " Dare any of you, having a matter G4229 against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?"
2Co 7:11 " ... what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.G4229"
1Th 4:6 " That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matterG4229: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. "
Heb 6:18 " That by two immutable thingsG4229, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us"
Heb 10:1 " For the law having a shadow of good thingsG4229 to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. "
Jas 3:16 " For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil workG4229"


pragma. G4229. a thing.
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