πωλέω

Matthew 10:29 πωλεῖται; are sold?

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

Here: "Are sold": a present tense describing what normally happens in the market. The verb is singular because Greek normally pairs a neuter plural subject with a singular verb. The picture is the everyday poultry trade.

Matthew 13:44 πωλεῖ he sells

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

Here: Vivid present: he sells. It turns everything he owns into cash, the same verb Jesus uses to the rich man in 19:21 ('sell your possessions').

Matthew 19:21 πώλησόν do sell

Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Here: This command form presents the selling as one decisive, completed act, not a gradual habit of giving.

Matthew 21:12 πωλοῦντας πωλούντων selling

Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

Here: The present tense describes people busy at it, 'the ones doing the selling.' What they sold was mainly animals and birds for sacrifice, plus other offering supplies.

Matthew 25:9 πωλοῦντας selling

‘No,’ said the wise ones, ‘or there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

Here: 'Those selling': the oil dealers or shopkeepers. Greek doesn't say 'oil' here; the BSB adds it. These are ordinary local traders in the story.

Mark 10:21 πώλησον do sell

Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Here: A command to do one decisive thing: turn the property, which for a wealthy man in Judea was probably largely land (κτήματα, v.22), into money.

Mark 11:15 πωλοῦντας πωλούντων selling

When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

Here: The vendors, mainly of what was needed for sacrifice: animals, birds, and probably wine, oil and salt.

Luke 12:6 πωλοῦνται are being sold for

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

Here: Present tense used for what normally happens: 'are sold', that is, the going rate. The picture is a market stall, birds valued by the handful.

Luke 12:33 πωλήσατε do sell

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Here: A plain market word: turn goods into money. The command form (aorist imperative) calls for a definite act, not a general mood of detachment.

Luke 17:28 ἐπώλουν, they were selling,

It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

Luke 18:22 πώλησον do sell

On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Here: An aorist imperative: a single, decisive command to sell. The property is turned into money so that it can be given away.

Luke 19:45 πωλοῦντας selling

Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there.

Here: "Those selling": people identified by what they were doing at the moment. The word is ordinary and neutral, with no hint of cheating. Luke does not say what they sold, though other Gospels name doves, sheep and cattle.

Luke 22:36 πωλησάτω he should sell

“Now, however,” He told them, “the one with a purse should take it, and likewise a bag; and the one without a sword should sell his cloak and buy one.

John 2:14 πωλοῦντας selling

In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

Here: A present-tense participle, 'the ones who were selling'. It shows trade going on as he arrived: an ongoing market, not a single sale.

John 2:16 πωλοῦσιν selling

To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

Here: Present participle: people whose ongoing business was selling there. The verb names ordinary trade. It carries no hint of fraud in itself.

Acts 4:34 πωλοῦντες selling [them]

There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales,

Here: A present participle, 'selling'. It pictures sales going on as a practice and is bound to the main verb: they sold and brought.

Acts 4:37 πωλήσας having sold [it]

sold a field he owned, brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Acts 5:1 ἐπώλησεν sold

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.

Here: A simple past tense, "sold". The same verb is used of the believers who sold their property (4:34) and of Barnabas (4:37, "having sold"). So far Ananias is doing exactly what the generous givers did.

1 Corinthians 10:25 πωλούμενον being sold

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

Here: Present passive participle, "being sold": whatever is routinely offered for sale there. The focus is on its status as an ordinary commercial item, whatever its earlier history.

Revelation 13:17 πωλῆσαι to sell

so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name.