ok’-u-pi: Is in the <span class="auto-link">[[King James Version]]</span> the translation of 7 different words:

(1) nathan;<br /><br />

(2) cachar;<br /><br />

(3) `arabh;<br /><br />

(4) `asah, either with or without the added word, mela’khah;<br /><br />

(5) anapleroun;<br /><br />

(6) peripatein;<br /><br />

(7) pragmateuein.<br /><br />

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.<br /><br />

(1) In <bibleref ref="Ezek.27.16">Eze 27:16</bibleref>,<bibleref ref="Ezek.27.19">19</bibleref>,<bibleref ref="Ezek.27.22">22</bibleref>, nathan meant "to trade," and the <span class="auto-link">[[Revised Version]]</span> (British and American) reads "traded."

(2) From cachar, "to go about," was derived a designation of "merchants" (Revised Version) (<bibleref ref="Ezek.27.21">Eze 27:21</bibleref>).

(3) `Arabh (<bibleref ref="Ezek.27.9">Eze 27:9</bibleref>) signifies "to exchange" (the English Revised Version and the <span class="auto-link">[[American Revised Version]]</span> margin, but the American Standard Revised Version "deal in").

(4) `asah (<bibleref ref="Exod.38.24">Ex 38:24</bibleref>) means simply "to use" (Revised Version), and the same word in <bibleref ref="Judg.16.11">Jud 16:11</bibleref>, with mela’khah ("work") added, signifies that work had been done (Revised Version).

(5) In <bibleref ref="1Cor.14.16">1Co 14:16</bibleref>, "occupy," the King James Version rendering of anapleroun, would still be as intelligible to most as the Revised Version (British and American) "fill."

(6) "Occupy" in <bibleref ref="Heb.13.9">Heb 13:9</bibleref>, 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 (<bibleref ref="Luke.19.13">Lu 19:13</bibleref>) is rendered in the King James Version "occupy" in its obsolete sense of "trade" (Revised Version).