Quick Definition
πρᾶξις, εως, ἡ n.f. an action, deeds, function
Strong's Definition
practice, i.e. (concretely) an act; by extension, a function
Derivation: from G4238 (πράσσω);
KJV Usage: deed, office, work
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -εως | πράσσω
42.8 · Perform, Do · Do, Perform
to do, to carry out, to perform, deed to carry out some activity (with possible focus upon the procedures involved)
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πράξις, -ews, ἡ, (πράσσω), fr. Hom. down; a.a doing, a mode of acting; a deed, act, transaction: univ. πράξεις τῶν ἀποστόλων (Grsb.; Ree. inserts ἁγίων, L Tr WH om. τῶν, Tdf. has simply πράξεις), the doings of (i.e. things done by) the apostles, in the inscription of the Acts; sing. in an ethical sense: both good and bad, Mt. xvi. 27; in a bad sense, i. 4. wicked deed, crime, Lk. xxiii. 51; plur. wicked doings (cf. our practices i. e. trickery; often so by Polyb.): Acts xix. 18; Ro. viii. 13; Col. iii. 9; (with κακή added, as Ev. Nicod. 1 ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐθεράπευσε δαιμονιζομένους ἀπὸ πράξεων κακῶν). b. a thing to be done, business, [A. V. office], (Xen. mem. 2,1, 6): Ro. xii. 4.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πρᾶξις praxis 6x
operation, business, office, Rom. 12:4; πρᾶξις, and πράξεις, actions, mode of acting, ways, deeds, practice, behavior, Mt. 16:27; Lk. 23:51
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πρᾶξις, -εως, ἡ
(< πράσσω), [in LXX: II Ch 13:22 27:7 28:26 (דֶּרֶךְ), Jb 24:5 A (פֹּעַל), Pr 13:13, Wi 9:11, al.;]
a doing, deed, act: Mt 16:27; pl., π. ἀποσπτόλων, Ac, tit.; in late writers especially of wicked deeds or practices (freq. in Polyb.): Lk 23:51; p1., Ro 8:13, Col 3:9; with ref. to magic (v. BS, 3235), Ac 19:18.
an acting, action, business, function: Ro 12:4.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πρᾶξις (praxis) — action. πρᾶξις, εως, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πρῆξις, ιος, ἡ: (πράσσω):— doing, transaction, business, [πλεῖν] κατὰ πρῆξιν on a trading voyage, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. δ᾽ ἥδ᾽ ἰδίη, οὐ δήμιος a private, not a public affair, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡ περί τινος π. the transaction respecting.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. result or issue of a business, especially good result, success, οὐ γάρ τις πρῆξις πέλεται.. γόοιο no good comes of weeping, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; λυμαίνεσθαί τινι τὴν π. to spoil one's market, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. φίλαν δίδοι grant a happy issue. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ταχεῖά γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν π. their issue, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. doing, τῶν ἀγαθῶν (of persons) πρήξιες [Refs 6th c.BC+]; achievement, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. πολεμική, πολιητική, πολιτική, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; action, opposed to πάθος, [Refs]; opposed to ἕξις, [Refs]; moral action, opposed to ποίησις, τέχνη, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ποιότης, [Refs]; opposed to οἱ πολιτικοὶ λόγοι, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι ὄντα τε καὶ πραττόμενα exhibited in actual life, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; action in drama, opposed to λόγος, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2. action, exercise, χειρῶν, σκελῶν, στόματος, φωνῆς, διανοίας, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. euphemistic for sexual intercourse, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.4. magical operation, spell, [Refs]
III. action, act, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. b military action, battle, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
IV. doing, faring well or ill, fortune, state, condition, ἀπέκλαιε.. τὴν ἑωυτοῦ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
V. practical ability, π. καὶ σύνεσις [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
V.2. practice, i.e. trickery, treachery, ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν [Refs]; κατὰ τῆς πόλεως, ἐπὶ τοὺς Αἰτωλούς, [Refs]
VI. exaction of money, recovery of debts, arrears, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρὰ Ἀρτέμωνος.. ἔστω ἡ π. τοῖς δανείσασι let the lenders have an action of recovery against Artemon, Syngr. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ π. τῶν καταδικασθέντων [Refs 4th c.BC+]
VI.2. exaction of vengeance, retribution, βαρβάρων χάριν γάμων πρᾶξιν ὡς Ἑλλὰς λάβοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
VII. public office, ἡ διοικηθεῖσα π. Epist. Macrin. cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
VIII. discourse, lecture of a rhetorician or philosopher, [Refs 4th c.AD+]