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Brow: 3790. Once, Luke 4:29. Greek is, ophrus. Brow, past particle, Eye-brow, Septuagint, “Eyebrows,” Leviticus 14:9. In N.T. Brow of a mountain, edge of a precipice, Luke 4:29, “Led him unto the brow of the hill.”
Bruise: 4937. Bruised: Bruising: 4937. Greek is, suntribo. To rub together, as in sticks for kindling fire. Usually and in N.T., as to break or crush together, by rubbing or striking against, concussion, as to break in pieces, trans.
a. Past particle, Mark 5:4, “Broken in pieces.” Mark 14:3, “She brake the box.” John 19:36, “A bone of Him shall not be broken.” Revelation 2:27, Septuagint for Hebrew, “Break a bone,” Exodus 12:46. Leviticus 6:28, 26:13, “I have broken the bands.” Of a reed, to break together, so as to have a flaw or crack, but not entirely off; Matthew 12:20, “A bruised reek shall He not break,” a reed broken together shall he not break off, quoted from, Isaiah 42:3, where Septuagint for Hebrew, “Bruised.”
b. Trope, to break together the strength or power of any one, to crush, to weaken, common form accommodation, Luke 9:39, “Bruising him,” as in weakens him, breaks him down; compare with, Mark 9:18, “Pineth,” where it is, So of Satan, to break or crush his power, Romans 16:20, “Shall bruise Satan.” Septuagint for Hebrew, Joshua 10:10. Amos 3:15, “Smite.” Passive, Luke 4:18, “To set at liberty them that are bruised,” broken in heart, as in dispirited, afflicted. Septuagint and Hebrew, Psalms 34:18, “Broken hearted,” Psalms 51:17, “A broken and contrite heart.”
Bruised: 2352. Once, Luke 4:18. Greek is, throuo. Preferred, passive, to break in pieces, to crush. In N.T., trope, to break, to crush, the strength of any one; hence, crushed, bruised, oppressed, Luke 4:18, “Them that are bruised.” quoted generally from, Isaiah 61:1-2, “Bind the broken hearted,” but with this clause inserted from, Isaiah 58:6, “Oppressed go free,” where Septuagint for Hebrew, trope, of hope.
Brute: 249. Greek is, alogos. Adjective, without reason, as,
a. Irrational, brute, 2 Peter 2:12, “As natural brute beasts.” Jude 10, “As brute beasts.”
b. Unreasonable, absurd, Acts 25:27, “It seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner.”
Budded: 985. See Forth, 985. Used once, Hebrews 9:4.
Buffet: Buffeted: 2852. Greek is, kalaphizo. Feminine, to strike with the fist, to buffet, common form accommodation, Matthew 26:67. “They spit in his face, and buffeted him.” Mark 14:65. Hence generally to buffet, to maltreat, 1 Corinthians 4:11. 2 Corinthians 12:7. 1 Peter 2:20. Unknown in the Attic Greek.
Build: 456. Greek is, anoikodomeo. Feminine, to rebuild, transitive verb, Acts 15:16, “And will build again the tabernacle of David.” Septuagint for Hebrew, “Build,” Amos 9:11.
Build: 2026. Building: Built:2026. Greek is, epoikodomeo. Feminine, to build upon as a foundation, passive, sequel follows “on, upon,” common form dative. In N.T., only trope, to build upon, spoken of Christian faith and Christian life, both in the whole church and in its individual members, as built upon the only foundation, Christ, and implying the constant internal and external development of the kingdom of God and the visible church, like a holy temple progressively and unceasingly built up from the foundation; compare with, 1 Corinthians 3:9-10, “Ye are God’s building.” “I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.”
So, passive, sequel follows, “On, upon,” common form dative, Ephesians 2:20, “Built upon the foundation of the apostles.” Colossians 2:7, “Built up in him.” Active, sequel follows accommodation, “upon,” common form accommodation,
1 Corinthians 3:12. Sequel follows accommodation, with verse 14. Absolute, 1 Corinthians 3:10. By implying to build up further, in the faith and upon Christ, sequel follows accusative of persons expressed or implied. Acts 20:32, Jude 20, “Building up yourselves.”
Build: 3618. Builded: Builders: Buildest: Building: Built: 3618. Greek is, oikodomeo. Past particle, to build a house, and generally. To build, to construct, to erect, transitive verb.
a. Past particle, as Luke 6:48, “A man which built an house.” Matthew 21:33. Mark 12:1. Luke 14:28. Mark 14:58, “I will build another made without hands.” Luke 12:18. Common form dative, commodious, Luke 7:5, Acts 7:47-49. Sequel follows “Upon,” common form genitive,, to build upon, Luke 4:29. “Upon,” common form genitive, Matthew 7:24-26. Luke 6:49. Absolute, Luke 14:30, 17:28. John 2:20. Participle, the builders, Matthew 21:42. Mark 12:10, “The stone which the builders rejected.” Luke 20:17. Acts 4:11. 1 Peter 2:7. Septuagint for Hebrew, “Builded,” Genesis 4:17, 8:20. common form, “in,” Ezekiel 16:31. Trope, of a system of instruction, doctrine, etc. Romans 15:20. Galatians 2:18.
b. By implication, to rebuild, to renew, a building decayed or destroyed, Matthew 23:29, “Ye build the tombs of the prophets” Luke 11:47-48. So, Matthew 26:61, 27:40. Mark 15:29. Septuagint and Hebrew, Joshua 6:26, “Builteth this city.” Job 12:14. Amos 9:14.
c. Metaphor, to build up, to establish, to confirm, spoken of the Christian church and its members; who are thus compared to a building, a temple of God, erected upon the one only foundation Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 3:9-10, “Another buildeth thereupon,” and ever built up progressively and unceasingly more and more from the foundation.
c-1. Externally, Matthew 16:18, “Upon this rock I will build my church.” 1 Peter 2:5, “Built up a spiritual house.” Acts 9:31, “The churches — were edified.”
c-2. Internally, in a good sense, to build up in the faith, to edify, to cause to advance in the divine life, 1 Corinthians 8:1, 10:23, 14:4-17. 1 Thessalonians 5:11, “Edify one another.” In a bad sense, to embolden 1 Corinthians 8:10, “The conscience of him which is weak be emboldened.”
Builded: 2680. See Prepare, 2680.
Builded: Buildeth: 4925. Greek is, sunoikodomeo. To build with any one, in company with, common form dative. In N.T., passive, trope, to be built together with other Christians into a spiritual temple, Ephesians 2:22, “In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God.”
Builder: 5079. Greek is, technites. An artisan, artificer, craftsman; Acts 19:24, “Unto the craftsmen,” with verse 38. Revelation 18:22. Septuagint for Hebrew, “Craftsman,” Deuteronomy 27:15. Jeremiah 10:9, “Workmen.” Trope, of God as the builder, founder of the heavenly Jerusalem, Hebrews 11:10, “Whose builder and maker is God.”
Building: 1739. Greek is, endomesis. Past particle, something built in, as a mole in a harbor. In N.T., generally, a structure, building Revelation 21:18, “Building of the wall of it was jasper.”
Building: 2937. See Creation, 2937. Once, Hebrews 9:11.
Building: Buildings: 3619. See Edify, 3619.
Built: 2680. See Prepare, 2680.
Bulls: 5022. Greek is, tauros. A bull, bullock, Matthew 22:4, “My oxen.” Acts 14:13, “Brought oxen.” Hebrews 9:13, 10:4, “The blood of bulls.” Septuagint for Hebrew, “An ox,” Exodus 21:28-29.
Bundle: 4128. See Multitude, 4128. Once, Acts 28:3.
Bundles: 1197. Greek is, desme. A bundle, sheaf, Matthew 13:30, “Bind them in bundles,” Septuagint for Hebrew, “Bunch,” Exodus 12:22.
Burden: 922. Burdens: Burdensome: 922. Greek is, baros. Weight. In N.T. only, metaphor.
a. Weight, in reference to its pressure, burden, load. Matthew 20:12, “Which have borne the burden and heat of the day,” the burden, as in the heavy labor of the day. Spoken of precepts, of which the observance is burdensome, Acts 15:28. Revelation 2:24. Spoken of sinful conduct and its consequences, trouble, sorrow, etc. Galatians 6:2, “Bear ye one another’s burdens.” In a pecuniary sense, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, “We might have been burden- some,” to be burdensome, compare with verse 9. Others, honor, authority.
b. Weight in reference to its cause, as in greatness, abundance, fullness, opulence. 2 Corinthians 4:17, “Exceeding and eternal weight of glory,” a weight, fullness, of eternal glory. For the construct, compare, 2 Macc.9:10. So, Hebrew, “We shall carry nothing away.” Psalms 49:17. Isaiah 10:3, “Where will ye leave your glory?” Isaiah 66:12. Compare, “Much people,” a great army, Septuagint, Numbers 20:20. Macc.1:17-20.
Burden: 1117. Greek is, gomos. A load, of an animal, Septuagint for Hebrew, “Burden.” In N.T.
a. Of a ship, Acts 21:3, “The ship was to unlade her burden.”
b. By implication, merchandize, wares, Revelation 18:11-12, “The merchandise of gold.”
Burden: 2599. Greek is, katabareo. To bear down, to weigh down as a burden; in N.T., trope. to burden in pecuniary sense, common form accommodation, 2 Corinthians 12:16, “I did not burden you.” 2 Samuel 13:25, “Lest we be chargeable = (a burden) unto thee.”
Burden: Burdens: 5413. Greek is, phortion. A burden, load;
a. Past particle, as spoken of a ship, lading, freight, Acts 27:10, “Cargo,” in later editions. For “Lading,” in K.J.V., generally, Septuagint, Isaiah 46:1.
b-1. Trope, of the Jewish ceremonial law as a burden upon its followers, Matthew 23:4, “They bind heavy burdens.” Luke 11:46. Of the precepts and requisitions of Christ, in antithesis, Matthew 11:30, “My burden is light.”
b-2. Of the burden of one’s faults, sins, Galatians 6:5, “every man shall bear his own burden.” Compare with, Septuagint and Hebrew, Psalms 38:4, “Heavy burden.”
Burdened: 916. Greek is bareo. In N.T., preferred participial to be heavy, to be weighed down, to be oppressed, only metaphor as, Luke 9:32, “Heavy with sleep,” and so with, eyes were heavy,” implied, Matthew 26:43. Mark 14:40. So, Septuagint and Hebrew, 1 Samuel 3:2, “Eyes began to wax dim.” So to be oppressed, to be borne down, by evils, calamities, etc. 2 Corinthians 1:8, 5:4. In the sense of to be burdened, by expense, 1 Timothy 5:16, Of this word only the participles, “To be burdened,” to be oppressed,” occur in the early and Attic writers. The present forms occur only in later writers.
Burdened: 2347. See Afflicted, 2347. Once, 2 Corinthians 8:13.
Burdensome: 4. Greek is, abares. Adjective, past particle, not heavy, as of the air. In N.T., metaphor, not burdensome, as not causing expense, 2 Corinthians 11:9, “I have kept myself from being burdensome.”
Burdensome: 922. See Burden, 922.
Burdensome: 1722. See In, 1722.
Burdensome: 2655. Greek is, katanarkao. To become torpid against as to the detriment of any one, intransitive verb, hence Paul’s writings as to be burdensome to any one, as in a pecuniary sense, sequel follows genitive, 2 Corinthians 11:9. 12:13-14, “I will not be burdensome.” In Greek writers found only in the passive.
Burial: 1779. Greek is, entaphiazo. Grave clothes and ornaments. To prepare for burial, as to lay out, to decorate, to embalm, in the Jewish manner. Transitive verb, Matthew 26:12, “She did it for my burial.” John 19:40, “As the manner of the Jews is to bury.” Septuagint for Hebrew, “Embalm, embalmed.” Genesis 50:2-3.
Buried: 2290. Greek is, thapto. Feminine, to perform funeral rites, past particle, including burning and burial. In N.T., generally, to bury, to inter, transitive verb, Matthew 8:21-22, “Let the dead bury their dead.” Matthew 14:12. Luke 9:59-60, 16:22, “Was buried.” Acts 2:29, 5:6-9-10. 1 Corinthians 15:4. Septuagint for Hebrew, “Bury,” Genesis 23:4.
Buried: 4916. Greek is, sunethapto. Feminine, to bury with any one; In N.T., trop, with Christ, in the likeness of His burial. Passive, Romans 6:4, “We are buried with Him.” Colossians 2:12, “Buried with Him in baptism.”
Burn: 2370. See Incense, 2370.
Burn: 2545. Burned: Burneth: Burning: 2545. Greek is, kaio. Feminine to burn, as in,
a. Causation, to make burn, to kindle, to light, as a fire, lamp. Passive, participle, burning, flaming. Matthew 5:15, “Neither do men light a candle,” Mark 4:21. Luke 12:35, “And your lights burning.” Hebrews 12:18, flaming fire. Revelation 4:5, 8:8-10, 19:20, 21:8. Septuagint, Leviticus 24:2, where Hebrew is, “Burn.” Passive for, “Burned,” Deuteronomy 4:11, 5:23. Compare with, Daniel 3:6 sequel follows. Trope, John 5:35, “A burning and shining light,” spoken of John the Baptist as a distinguished teacher. Luke 24:32, “Did not our heart burn within us.? Metaphor, to burn, as in to be greatly moved, of the heart.
b. Transitive verb, to burn, as in to consume with fire. John 15:6, “And they are burned.” Matthew 13:40. 1 Corinthians 13:3. Septuagint for Hebrew, “Burn,” Leviticus 4:12. 1 Kings 13:2. Isaiah 5:24.
Burn: 2618. Burned: Burnt: 2618. Greek is, katakaio. Revelation 18:8, “Utterly burned with fire.” And also in the later usage future, 2 Passive, 1 Corinthians 3:15, “If any man’s work shall be burned.” 2 Peter 3:10. To burn down, to consume utterly, as in English, to burn up, transitive verb, Matthew 3:12, “Burn up the chaff.” Matthew 13:30-40. Luke 3:17. Acts 19:19. Hebrews 13:11. 2 Peter 3:10. Revelation 8:7, 17:16, 18:8. Septuagint for Hebrew, “Burnt,” Exodus 32:20. Leviticus 6:30.
Burn: Burned: 4448. Greek is, puroo. Feminine to fire as to set on fire. In N.T., only passive, to be fired, set on fire, kindled, as to burn, to flame.
a. Past particle, Ephesians 6:16, “The fiery darts of the wicked.” 2 Peter 3:12, “The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved.” Revelation 1:15, Trope, to burn, to be inflamed, as with anger, as to be incensed, 2 Corinthians 11:29, “I burn not.” With lust, 1 Corinthians 7:9, “It is better to marry than to burn.” So, Septuagint, Hosea 7:4,”As an oven heated by the baker,” Edit, Vatican.
b. By implication, to be tried with fire, purified, as metals, Revelation 3:18. Septuagint for Hebrew, Job 22:25. Hebrew, Zechariah 13:9.
Burned: 1572. Greek is, ekkaio. Aoris 1, passive, to cause to burn or flame out, as to kindle, transitive verb, Septuagint for Hebrew, “He that kindled the fire,” Exodus 22:6. Judges 15:5. In N.T., passive or middle term of syllogism, to burn out, to flame up, intransitive verb, as to be inflamed, to burn vehemently; metaphor, “Burned in their lust,” Romans 1:27. Of anger, Septuagint for Hebrew, “Wrath is kindled,” Psalms 2:12. Jeremiah 4:4, “Burn.” Deuteronomy 29:20, “Smoke (burn) against.”
Burned: 1714. Greek is, empretho. Feminine, Latin, incendo, to inflame, to set on fire, as to destroy by fire, Matthew 22:7, “Burned up their cities.” Septuagint for Hebrew, “Burn with fire,” Deuteronomy 13:16. Judges 18:27, “Burneth the city with fire.”
Burned: 2740. Greek is, kausis. A burning, burning up. Hebrews 6:8, “Whose end is to be burned,” as in the end of which is to be burned. Septuagint for Hebrew, inferred, Isaiah “Burn.” Hebrews 40:16, 44:15.
Burning: 2742. See Heat, 2742. Once, James 1:11.
Burning: 4451. Greek is, purosis. A being on fire, burning, conflagration, Revelation 18:9-18, “Smoke of her burning.” Trope, fiery trail, calamity, suffering, 1 Peter 4:12, “Fiery trial which is to try you.” Septuagint, past particle, form Hebrew, a furnace, “Fining-pot for silver,” Proverbs 27:21.
Burnt: 3646. See Whole, 3646.
Burst: 2997. Greek is, lascho. Feminine, to crack, to knack, to snap. In. N.T. and later, to crack open, to burst, Acts 1:18, “He burst asunder.”
Burst: 4486. See Break, 4486.
Bury: 1779. See Burial,1779. Once, John 19:40.
Bury: 2290. See Buried, 2290.
Bury: 5027. taphe. Burial, sepulture; common form dative, Matthew 27:7, “To bury strangers in.” Septuagint for Hebrew, “Buried,” Deuteronomy 34:6. Ecclesiastes 6:3. Ezekiel 32:23, “Grave.”
Burying: 1780. Greek is, entaphiasmos. Preparation for burial, as in a laying out embalming, etc. Mark 14:8. John 12:7, “Against the day of my burying.”
Bush: 942. See Bramble, 942.
Bushel: 3426. Greek is, modios. Latin, modius. A Roman measure for things dry, equal to one sixth part of the Attic Greek, “Medimnus.” containing therefore 1.916 gallons. English, or nearly one peck; Matthew 5:15, “Put it under a bushel.” Mark 4:21. Luke 11:33.
Business: 2398. See Company, 2398. Once, 1 Thessalonians 4:11.
Business: 4229. Greek is, pragma. Past particle, a thing done or to be done, as,
a. Thing done, deed, act, fact, matter. Luke 1:1, “Those things,” as in events. James 3:16, “Evil work.” Hebrews 6:18, 10:1, 11:1. Septuagint for Hebrew, “The thing,” Genesis 24:50. Deuteronomy 17:5. Judges 6:29.
b. Thing doing or to be done, matter, business, affair. Matthew 18:19, “As touching any thing.” Acts 5:4. Romans 16:2, “Whatsoever business.” 2 Corinthians 7:11. 1 Thessalonians 4:6, “In any matter.” Septuagint for Hebrew, “Every purpose,” Ecclesiastes 3:1. In a judicial sense, to have a matter at law, a lawsuit, 1 Corinthians 6:1, “Having a matter against another.”
Business: 4710. Greek is, spoude. Speed, haste, as manifested in earnestness, diligence, seal.
a. Generally, as with haste, as in hastily, eagerly, Mark 6:25, “Straightway with haste” Luke 1:39. Septuagint for Hebrew, “Haste,” Exodus 12:11.
b. As in diligence, earnest effort, forwardness. Romans 12:8, “Ruleth, with diligence,” with verse 11. 2 Corinthians 7:12, “Our care for you.” 2 Corinthians 7:11, “What carefulness it wrought in you.” 2 Corinthians 8:7-8, “The forwardness of others.”
2 Peter 1:5. Jude 3, “All diligence.” So in behalf of any one, as, 2 Corinthians 7:12, 8:16, common form, “to,” final, Hebrews 6:11.
Business: 5532. Greek is, cheria.
a. Use, usage, employment, as in act of using. In N.T., metonymically, that in which one is employed, an employment, affair, business; Acts 6:3, “Over this business.”
a-1. Need, necessity, want. Generally, Ephesians 4:29, “To the use of edifying,” as adjective for needful edification. So there is need, opus est, common form genitive, Luke 10:42, “One thing is needful;” also, common form infinitive, Hebrews 7:11, “What further need?”
b. Of personal need, necessity, want; Acts 20:34, “Ministered unto my necessities.” Romans 12:13. Philippians 2:25, 4:19, “Supposed it necessary.” For one’s need or wants, Philippians 4:16. Titus 3:14. Things for need, such things as were necessary to us, Acts 28:10
c. Elsewhere only in the phrase , to have need, as to need, to want, as,
c-1, Generally and sequel follows genitive, to have need of, Matthew 9:12, “Need not a physician.” Matthew 21:3, 26:65, Mark 2:17, 11:3, 14:63. Luke 5:31, 9:11, Luke 15:7, 19:31-34, 22:71. John 13:29. 1 Corinthians 12:21-24. Hebrews 5:12, 10:36. Revelation 21:23, 22:5. Sequel follows infinitive, active, Matthew 14:16, “They need not depart.” John 13:10. 1 Thessalonians 1:8, 4:9. Also inferred passive, Matthew 3:14. 1 Thessalonians 5:1. Sequel follows “That,” John 2:25, 16:30. 1 John 2:27. Septuagint, common form genitive for Hebrew, “No delight,” Proverbs 18:2. Isaiah 13:17.
c-2. Of personal need, want; common form genitive, Matthew 6:8, “What things ye have need of.” 1 Thessalonians 4:12, “May have lack of nothing.” Revelation 3:17. Absolute, to have need, as to be in need, to be in want, Mark 2:25, Acts 2:45, 4:35. Ephesians 4:28, 1 John 3:17.
Busybodies: 4020. Greek is, periergazomai. Feminine, past particle, to work all around a thing, on every side, as in to work carefully, sedulously, to do with great and even excessive pains. Hence in N.T., to overdo, to do with care and pains what is not worthy the pains, to be a busy-body; so in the paronomasia, 2 Thessalonians 3:11, “Working not at all, but are busybodies,” doing nothing, but over-doing; not busy in work, but busy-bodies. paronomasia, a rhetorical figure, by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other.
Busybodies: 4021. Greek is, periergos. Adjective, past particle, working all around, as in doing carefully, sedulously, In N.T., over-doing, doing with care and pains what is not worth the pains, or what is superfluous, as,
a. Of persons, a busy-body, intermeddler, 1 Timothy 5:13, “They learn to be idle, — but tattlers also and busybodies.”
b. Of things, past particle, overwrought, curious, superfluous, spoken of magic arts, sorcery, Acts 19:19, “Many of them also which used curious arts.”
Busybody: 244. Greek is, allotrepiskopos. Found only in N.T., 1 Peter 4:15, “as a busybody in other men’s matters,” where it is spoken of one who suffers, not as a Christian, but as a busybody in other men’s matters. As either an inspector of foreign or strange things, a director of heathenism, etc. Or else one who busies himself with what does not concern him, a busy-body, in the sense of seditious, factious.
But: 235. See Yet, 235.
But: 4133. See Than, 4133.
Bur: 1161. See Yes, 1161.
Buy: Buyeth: 59. Greek is, agorazo. Feminine, to market. In N.T., to buy, to purchase, absolute or transitive verb, sometimes followed by a genitive of price, Mark 6:37, “Shall we go and buy?” By, “with,” common form genitive of price, Matthew 27:7, “Bought with them the potter’s field.” Or, “By thy blood,” common form dative of price, Revelation 5:9, “Hast redeemed us to God.” collectively, Septuagint 1 Chronicles 21:24, “buy.” Revelation 14:3, “The hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”
Buy: 1710. See Sell, 1710. Once, James 4:13.
By: 1223. prep. With the primary significance through, through out, governing the genitive and accusative.
a. With the genitive, through, etc. spoken,
a-1. Of place, implying motion through a place, and put after verbs of motion, as of going, coming, etc. as, “Withdrew,” Matthew 2:12, “They departed into their own country.” So with, “passed through,” Hebrews 11:29. Luke 6:1, “Went through.” Matthew 12:43, “He walketh through.” Matthew 19:24 “To go through.” Matthew 7:13, “Enter,” and, “Go in.” John 10:1-9, Matthew 4:4, Greek is, “Going out through the mouth of God.” Mark 10:1, “Arose from.” Mark 2:23, 9:30, “Passed through.” Matthew 8:28. Acts 20:3.
With many other verbs implying motion, 2 Corinthians 8:18, “The gospel throughout.” So after, “For now,” 1 Corinthians 13:12, Mark 11:16, “Should carry.” Acts 13:49. Luke 5:19. 2 Corinthians 11:33, “Through a window.” Saved as if through fire, as in, passing through the ordeal of fire, 1 Corinthians 3:15, “By fire.”
b. Of time viz.
b-1. Continued time, time how long, through, throughout, during; Acts 1:3, during forty days. Hebrews 2:15, “Through fear — all their lifetime,” during their whole life. So, “During all,” or, “Through all time,” adverbially. Luke 5:5, “All the night,” during the whole night, as in all night. Acts 23:31. Spoken of time when, as of an indefinite time, during a longer interval, viz. during the night, as at some time of the night, by night; Acts 5:19, “By night.” Acts 16:9, “In the night.” Acts 17:10.
b-2. Of time elapsed, after, as in Acts 24:17, “After many years,” as many years being through, elapsed. Galatians 2:1, “Fourteen years after.” Mark 2:1, “After some days.” Septuagint for Hebrew, “At the end of forty days.” Deuteronomy 9:11, 15:1.
c. Of the instrument or intermediate cause; that which intervenes between the act of the will and the effect, and through which the effect proceeds; through, by, by means of, etc.
c-1. Spoken of things, through, by, by means of, etc. Mark 16:20 “Confirming the word with signs following.” John 11:4, 17:20. Acts 3:18-21, “Which God before had shewed by the mouth of all His prophets.” Acts 5:12, “By the hands of the apostles.” Acts 8:18, 10:43, “Through His name,” as in through a profession of faith in His name etc. Acts 11:30, 15:32, 19:26, 20:28, “With His own blood,” through the intervention of His blood. Romans 3:20, “By the law.” Romans 3:27, 5:10, 8:3. 1 Corinthians 3:5, 4:15. 2 Corinthians 1:4, 10:9. Galatians 2:16. 3 John 13. In the sense by virtue of, in consequence of, Romans 12:3, “Through the grace given unto me.” Galatians 1:15. Philemon 22. In obstetrician and exhortations, through, Romans 12:1, “I beseech you — by the mercies of God.” Romans 15:30. 1 Corinthians 1:10. 2 Corinthians 10:1.
c-2. Of persons through whose hands any thing as it were passes, through or by whose agency, ministry etc. an effect takes place or is produced, the efficient cause; Matthew 1:22, “Which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet.” Matthew 2:5-15-23. Luke 18:31. John 1:17. Acts 2:22, “Signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you.” Acts 2:43, 4:16, 12:9. Romans 2:16, 5:5. 1 Corinthians 2:10, 8:6. Hebrews 1:2-3. So, Romans 1:5, 5:1. 1 Corinthians 11:12, “The man also by the woman.” Galatians 1:1. 2 Timothy 2:2. Hebrews 2:2-7-9.
So through the fault of, etc. Matthew 18:7, 26:24. Romans 5:12-16-19. 1 Corinthians 1:21. Septuagint for Hebrew, “of,”
2 Chronicles 29:5, “by.” Esther 1:15. Isaiah 37:24. In this construction “Through–by,” may also refer to the author or first cause, when the author does any thing through himself instead of another; so of God, Romans 11:36, “Of Him, and through Him.” Hebrews 2:10. 1 Corinthians 1:9, God is faithful, by whom ye were called.” Also of Christ, Colossians 1:16, “By Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth.” John 1:3. In obtestations and exhortations, Romans 15:30, “I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake.” 1 Thessalonians 4:2. 2 Thessalonians 3:12.
d. Of the mode, manner, state, circumstances, through which any thing as it were passes, as in takes place, is produced, etc.
d-1. Of manner, where, “Through,” with its genitive forms a periphrases for the corresponding adverb. Luke 8:4, “Spake by a parable.” Literally through a parable, as by means of, with a parable, Acts 15:27, “By mouth,” by word, as in orally. Romans 8:25, Hebrews 12:1, “With patience,” through or with patience, as patiently. Romans 14:20, “With offence,” as to give offence. 2 Corinthians 10:11. Galatians 5:13. Ephesians 6:18. So, John 19:23, “Throughout.” Acts 15:32, as “With many words.” So, “Few words,” and “Briefly,” Hebrews 13:22. 1 Peter 5:12. 2 Corinthians 1:11, “By many.”
d-2. Of the state, circumstances, emotions. Through, in, with which or on occasion of which any thing exists, is produced or done etc. The verbs, “To be, was, come,” and the like being usually expressed or implied. Romans 15:32, “I may come to you — by the will of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:1. 2 Corinthians 8:5. Galatians 1:15, “Called me by His grace.” 2 Corinthians 8:8, “But by occasion of the forwardness of others,” as on occasion of, because of. Romans 14:14, “There is nothing unclean of itself,” through itself, as in and of its own nature.
2 Corinthians 5:7, “We walk by faith, not by sight,” as in we are Christians through and in a state of faith in Christ, not of sight or of personal intercourse with him. 1 John 5:6, He came by, through, water and blood, as in who received baptism and suffered death, whose baptism and death were testimonials of His mission Heb.9:12, through His own blood, as in offering Himself as sacrifice.
Romans 4:11, “All them that believe, thought they be not circumcised,” as in believers who are not circumcised.
1 Corinthians 14:19, “I had rather speak five words with my understanding.” 2 Corinthians 2:4, “I wrote unto you with many tears,” as in weeping. 2 Corinthians 3:11, “was glorious.” 2 Corinthians 5:10, 6:7. Philippians 1:20, “Whether it be by life, or by death,” as whether I live or die. 2 Thessalonians 2:2, “Nor by word, not by letter as from us.” 2 Peter 1:3, through, or, “To glory and virtue,” as in the highest, “Glory,” and “Virtue,” of God being thus conspicuously exhibited.
e. With the accusative, through, by, by means of; more generally on account of, etc.
e-1. Of the instrument the intermediate or efficient cause, as in # 3 above. through, by, by means of, etc.
e-2. Spoken of things, John 15:3, “Ye are clean through the word.” Hebrew 5:14, “That are full of age.” Revelation 12:11, 13:14, “Deceiveth them — by the means of,” deceives through, by means of, those miracles. So also, Hebrews 5:12, “For the time ye ought to be teachers,” through the time spent, as in the time spent should have made you already teachers. 2 Peter 3:12, “Coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire,” the day of God, through, in consequence of which the heavens, etc.
e-3. Of persons, compare # 3 above. John 6:57, “I live by the Father: — He shall live by me.” Romans 8:11, “By His Spirit that dwelleth in you.” Romans 8:20. Hebrews 6:7, “For them by whom.” Septuagint for Hebrew, Isaiah 50:11.
e-4. Of emotions etc. through which, from which, one is led to do any thing, etc. Matthew 27:18. Mark 15:10, “For envy.” Luke 1:78. Ephesians 2:4, “For His great love.” Philippians 1:15.
f. Of the ground or motive, the moving or impelling cause of any thing, on account of, because of, proper, etc.
f-1. Generally, Matthew 10:22, “Hated — for my name’s sake.” Matthew 13:21, “Tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word.” Matthew 13:58. Mark 2:4, “For the press = (crowd.)” Luke 8:47. John 4:39-41, 12:11. Acts 22:24, 28:2. Septuagint, Deuteronomy 15:10. Genesis 43:18. So before an infin. with the article, “Because,” Luke 11:8, 23:8, Acts 18:3, Mark 5:4, Acts 4:2. Septuagint, Deuteronomy 1:36.
Also in phrases, as on what account? wherefore? why? Matthew 9:11. Luke 5:30-33. John 13:37. Written also, “Why,” Matthew 13:10, 15:2. Mark 2:18, 7:5. Luke 19:23. John 7:45. Acts 5:3. Septuagint for Hebrew, “How is it,” Exodus 2:18. Numbers 11:11, “Wherefore.” Deuteronomy 29:23, “Thereof” So on this account, for this cause or reason, therefore; Matthew 6:25. Mark 6:14. Acts 2:26. Romans 1:26. 2 Corinthians 4:1. Revelation 18:8. Septuagint for Hebrew, “Yet surely,” Isaiah 49:4. Micah 3:12, “Therefore.” So “Because of this,” sequel follows, “on this account –because,” John 5:16, 8:47, “Therefore.” Inverted John 15:19.
f-2. In the sense of for the sake of, in behalf of, etc. as marking the purpose or object of an action, etc. Matthew 14:3. Mark 6:17, “For Herodias sake, his brother Philip’s wife.” Matthew 24:22, “For the elects’ sake.” Mark 2:27. John 11:15. Acts 16:3. Romans 11:28. So for the sake of this, for this purpose. John 12:27, “For this cause = (purpose) came I,” to suffer death. 1 Corinthians 4:17. With, in order that, John 1:31, “Therefore.” 1 Timothy 1:16. Hebrews 9:15, “That by means of.”
g. As marking the occasion of any thing, the occasional cause, that on occasion of, on account of, because of which any thing takes place. Matthew 27:19, “For I have suffered many things this day.” John 7:43, 10:19. Romans 2:4, “The goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?” Romans 15:15, “Because of the grace that is given,” as in, because of, by virtue of. 2 Peter 2:2.
h. Of the manner or state through, or during which any thing takes place; Galatians 4:13, “Through infirmity of the flesh,” through infirmity, as during bodily weakness. This sense of “Through, or “That in,” is rare with the accusative and comes from the general idea of duration. Note in Composition, “dia, or through, because, after, etc.” mostly retains its signification and refers:
h-1. To space and time, through, throughout, implying transition, continuance, etc. Also trope, through, to the end, marking completeness, and thus becoming intensive, as,
h-2. To distribution, diffusion, etc. Throughout, among, every where, as
h-3. To mutual or alternate effects or endeavors, through, between, among one another, to and fro.
h-4. To separation, as Latin “dis,” in two, in pieces, apart, etc.
By: 1722. See In, 1722.
By: 3844. See Past, 3844.
By: 5259. See Under, 5259
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