Meaning
Occupy <1,,4043, peripateo>
"to walk," is sometimes used of the state in which one is living, or of that to which a person is given, e.g., Heb 13:9, "(meats, wherein they that) occupied themselves," RV (marg., "walked;" AV, "have been occupied"), i.e., exercising themselves about different kinds of food, regarding some as lawful, others as unlawful (referring especially to matters of the ceremonial details of the law).
Notes: (1) For "occupy," in the AV of Luk 19:13, see TRADE. (2) For "occupieth," in the AV of 1Co 14:16, see FILL, No. 2.
