Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade. 2. (v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. 3. (v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration. 4. (v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade. 5. (v.) Commodities of the market. 6. (n.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia TRAFFIC, TRAFFICKER traf'-ik, traf'-ik-er (kena`-an, micchar, cachar, rekhullah): (1) Kena`an = "Canaan," and, as the Canaanites were celebrated merchants, came to mean "merchant," and so "traffic" (see CANAAN). Ezekiel 17:4 refers to the great eagle who "cropped off the topmost of the young twigs (of cedar) thereof, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants." (2) Micchar means "trade," and so "traffic"; comes from a root meaning "to travel round," e.g. as a peddler. 1 Kings 10:15 reads: "Besides that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants." This refers to the income of Solomon. (3) Cachar means "to go about," "occupy with," "trade," "traffic," "merchant," and so the business of the moving merchant or peddler. Joseph said to his brothers: "So will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land" (Genesis 42:34). He evidently meant that they should have license to become, throughout Egypt, traveling traders. (4) Rekhullah, from a root meaning "to travel for trading," and so a peddled traffic, as in spices, etc. Ezekiel speaks against the prince of Tyre: "By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches" (28:5); and against the king of Tyre: "in the unrighteousness of thy traffic," etc. (Ezekiel 28:18). See MARKET; MERCHANDISE; SHIPS AND BOATS, II, 2, (2); TRADE. William Edward Raffety

Multi-Version Concordance Traffic (12 Occurrences) James 4:13 Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain, (DBY YLT) Genesis 42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land. (KJV JPS ASV WBS) 1 Kings 10:15 besides that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV) Job 41:6 Will the bands 'of fishermen' make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants? (ASV DBY) Ezekiel 16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy whoredom unto the land of traffic, unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. (See JPS ASV) Ezekiel 17:4 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS) Ezekiel 27:19 Vedan and Javan of Uzal traded in thy markets: wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were in thy traffic. (DBY) Ezekiel 27:23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traffickers. (Root in WEB JPS ASV) Ezekiel 27:25 The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy traffic; and thou wast replenished, and highly honoured, in the heart of the seas. (DBY) Ezekiel 28:5 by your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches- (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS) Ezekiel 28:16 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. (WEB JPS ASV DBY) Ezekiel 28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)