Bible word study

Prasso (Strong’s G4238): Meaning in the Bible

Prasso (πράσσω) is the Greek word numbered G4238 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to "practise", i.e. perform repeatedly or habitually (thus differing from G4160, which properly refers to a single act); by implication, to execute, accomplish, etc.; specially, to collect (dues), fare (personally). In the King James Bible it is translated commit, deeds, do, exact, keep.

• Original wordπράσσω
• Transliterationprássō
• Pronunciationpras'-so
• Strong’s numberG4238
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primary verb;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Prasso appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Prasso (G4238) stands behind 38 English renderings in 36 verses across 10 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (13), Romans (10), Luke (6).

How the King James Bible renders Prasso, by count

• do15 of 38 (39 percent)
• done5 of 38 (13 percent)
• committed3 of 38 (8 percent)
• commit2 of 38 (5 percent)
• doeth2 of 38 (5 percent)
• deeds1 of 38 (3 percent)

Three places to read Prasso

• Luke 3:13 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
• Acts 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
• Romans 2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Prasso in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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