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- Employ - v. t. - To inclose; to infold.
- Employ - v. t. - To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.
- Employ - v. t. - To occupy; as, to employ time in study.
- Employ - v. t. - To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.
- Employ - n. - That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.
- Employable - a. - Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use.
- Employe - n. - One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
- Employed - imp. & p. p. - of Employ
- Employee - n. - One employed by another.
- Employer - n. - One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
- Employing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Employ
- Employment - n. - The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
- Employment - n. - That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government.
- Retain - v. t. - To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
- Waste - a. - To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
- Misemploy - v. t. - To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc.
- Preemploy - v. t. - To employ beforehand.
- Burlesque - v. i. - To employ burlesque.
- Employ - v. t. - To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.
- Think - v. t. - To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
- Employ - v. t. - To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.
- Engage - v. t. - To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
- Premise - n. - To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
- Enlist - v. t. - To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.
- Apply - v. t. - To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
- Broker - v. t. - An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.
- Alliterate - v. t. - To employ or place so as to make alliteration.
- Improve - v. t. - To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.
- See - v. i. - To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.
- Attorney - v. t. - To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
- Apply - v. t. - To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
- Ply - v. t. - To employ diligently; to use steadily.
- Infer - v. t. - To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.
- Palaver - v. t. & i. - To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully.
- Expend - v. t. - To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
- Lose - v. t. - Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
- Discourse - v. i. - To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- Engage - v. i. - To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
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- H2912 טָחַן - 2912 טָחַן - טָחַן - - ṭâchan - taw-khan' - a primitive root; to grind meal; hence, to be aconcubine (that being their employment); grind(-er). - Verb - heb
- H5975 עָמַד - 5975 עָמַד - עָמַד - - ʻâmad - aw-mad' - a primitive root; to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive); abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, [phrase] serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-) stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry. - Verb - heb
- H6045 עִנְיָן - 6045 עִנְיָן - עִנְיָן - - ʻinyân - in-yawn' - from עָנָה; ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair; business, travail. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G692 ἀργός - 692 ἀργός - ἈΡΓΌΣ - - argós - ar-gos' - from Α (as a negative particle) and ἔργον; inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless:--barren, idle, slow. - Adjective - greek
- H935 בּוֹא - 935 בּוֹא - בּוֹא - - bôwʼ - bo - a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications); abide, apply, attain, [idiom] be, befall, [phrase] besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, [idiom] certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, [idiom] doubtless again, [phrase] eat, [phrase] employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, [phrase] follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, [phrase] have, [idiom] indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, [idiom] (well) stricken (in age), [idiom] surely, take (in), way. - Verb - heb
- G5530 χράομαι - 5530 χράομαι - ΧΡΆΟΜΑΙ - - chráomai - khrah'-om-ahee - middle voice of a primary verb (perhaps rather from χείρ, to handle); to furnish what is needed; (give an oracle, "graze" (touch slightly), light upon, etc.), i.e. (by implication) to employ or (by extension) to act towards one in a given manner:--entreat, use. Compare χράω; χρή. - Verb - greek
- G5532 χρεία - 5532 χρεία - ΧΡΕΊΑ - - chreía - khri'-ah - from the base of χράομαι or χρή; employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution:--business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G5540 χρῆσις - 5540 χρῆσις - ΧΡῆΣΙΣ - - chrēsis - khray'-sis - from χράομαι; employment, i.e. (specially), sexual intercourse (as an occupation of the body):--use. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G5543 χρηστός - 5543 χρηστός - ΧΡΗΣΤΌΣ - - chrēstós - khrase-tos' - from χράομαι; employed, i.e. (by implication) useful (in manner or morals):--better, easy, good(-ness), gracious, kind. - Adjective - greek
- G2135 εὐνοῦχος - 2135 εὐνοῦχος - ΕὐΝΟῦΧΟΣ - - eunoûchos - yoo-noo'-khos - from (a bed) and ἔχω; a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer):--eunuch. - Noun Masculine - greek
- H4399 מְלָאכָה - 4399 מְלָאכָה - מְלָאכָה - - mᵉlâʼkâh - mel-aw-kaw' - from the same as מֲלְאָךְ; properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor); business, [phrase] cattle, [phrase] industrious, occupation, ([phrase] -pied), [phrase] officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship). - Noun Feminine - heb
- G3623 οἰκονόμος - 3623 οἰκονόμος - ΟἸΚΟΝΌΜΟΣ - - oikonómos - oy-kon-om'-os - from οἶκος and the base of νόμος; a house-distributor (i.e. manager), or overseer, i.e. an employee in that capacity; by extension, a fiscal agent (treasurer); figuratively, a preacher (of the Gospel):--chamberlain, governor, steward. - Noun Masculine - greek
- H6440 פָּנִים - 6440 פָּנִים - פָּנִים - - pânîym - paw-neem' - plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun פָּנֶה; from פָּנָה); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.); [phrase] accept, a-(be-) fore(-time), against, anger, [idiom] as (long as), at, [phrase] battle, [phrase] because (of), [phrase] beseech, countenance, edge, [phrase] employ, endure, [phrase] enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, [idiom] him(-self), [phrase] honourable, [phrase] impudent, [phrase] in, it, look(-eth) (-s), [idiom] me, [phrase] meet, [idiom] more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), [idiom] on, open, [phrase] out of, over against, the partial, person, [phrase] please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, [phrase] regard, right forth, [phrase] serve, [idiom] shewbread, sight, state, straight, [phrase] street, [idiom] thee, [idiom] them(-selves), through ([phrase] -out), till, time(-s) past, (un-) to(-ward), [phrase] upon, upside ([phrase] down), with(-in, [phrase] -stand), [idiom] ye, [idiom] you. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G3859 παραδιατριβή - 3859 παραδιατριβή - ΠΑΡΑΔΙΑΤΡΙΒΉ - - paradiatribḗ - par-ad-ee-at-ree-bay' - from a compound of παρά and διατρίβω; misemployment, i.e. meddlesomeness:--perverse disputing. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G4981 σχολή - 4981 σχολή - ΣΧΟΛΉ - - scholḗ - skhol-ay' - probably feminine of a presumed derivative of the alternate of ἔχω; properly, loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure, i.e. (by implication) a "school" (as vacation from physical employment):--school. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G4746 στοιβάς - 4746 στοιβάς - ΣΤΟΙΒΆΣ - - stoibás - stoy-bas' - from a primary (to "step" or "stamp"); a spread (as if tramped flat) of loose materials for a couch, i.e. (by implication) a bough of a tree so employed:--branch. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H8548 תָּמִיד - 8548 תָּמִיד - תָּמִיד - - tâmîyd - taw-meed' - from an unused root meaning to stretch; properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); ellipt. the regular (daily) sacrifice; alway(-s), continual (employment, -ly), daily, (n-)ever(-more), perpetual. - Noun Masculine - heb
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- Ezra 15 10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
יוֹנָתָן בֵּן עֲשָׂהאֵל יַחְזְיָה בֵּן תִּקְוָה עָמַד מְשֻׁלָּם שַׁבְּתַי לֵוִיִּי עָזַר - 1 Chronicles 13 9:33 And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
שִׁיר רֹאשׁ אָב לֵוִיִּי לִשְׁכָּה פָּטַר מְלָאכָה יוֹמָם לַיִל - Ezekiel 26 39:14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
בָּדַל אֱנוֹשׁ תָּמִיד עָבַר אֶרֶץ קָבַר עָבַר יָתַר פָּנִים אֶרֶץ טָהֵר קָצֶה שֶׁבַע חֹדֶשׁ חָקַר - Deuteronomy 5 20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
צוּר עִיר רַב יוֹם לָחַם תָּפַשׂ שָׁחַת עֵץ נָדַח גַּרְזֶן אָכַל כָּרַת עֵץ שָׂדֶה אָדָם בּוֹא מָצוֹר פָּנִים