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, No. 8), is translated “hold fast,”
RV
,
KJV
, “keep;” in 15:2,
RV
, “hold fast,”
KJV
,
“keep in memory.” (9) For “keep secret,” see
SECRET
. (10) For “keep under,” see
BUFFET
.
(11)
8
is rendered “commit the keeping” in 1 Pet. 4:19,
KJV
, (12) For “keep the
feast” see
FEAST
, B, No. 2.
B. Noun.
(
)$
, 5084), akin to A, No. 1, denotes (a) “a watching,” and hence,
“imprisonment, prison,” Acts 4:3 and 5:18, “ward,”
RV
(
KJV
, “hold” and “prison”); (b)
“keeping,” 1 Cor. 7:19. See
HOLD
,
PRLSON
.¶
KEEPER
$ @
(
"
, 5441), akin to A, No. 4, above, “a guard”: see
GUARD
.
Note:
For
, in Matt. 28:4, see A, No. 1, above.
KEY
(
&
, 2807), “a key,” is used metaphorically (a) of “the keys of the kingdom of
heaven,” which the Lord committed to Peter, Matt. 16:19, by which he would open the
door of faith, as he did to Jews at Pentecost, and to Gentiles in the person of Cornelius,
acting as one commissioned by Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit; he had
precedence over his fellow disciples, not in authority, but in the matter of time, on the
ground of his confession of Christ (v. 16); equal authority was committed to them
(18:18); (b) of “the key of knowledge,” Luke 11:52, i.e., knowledge of the revealed will
of God, by which men entered into the life that pleases God; this the religious leaders of
the Jews had presumptuously “taken away,” so that they neither entered in themselves,
nor permitted their hearers to do so; (c) of “the keys of death and of Hades,” Rev. 1:18,
RV
(see
HADES
), indicative of the authority of the Lord over the bodies and souls of men;
(d) of “the key of David,” Rev. 3:7, a reference to Isa. 22:22, speaking of the deposition
of Shebna and the investiture of Eliakim, in terms evidently messianic, the metaphor
being that of the right of entrance upon administrative authority; the mention of David is
symbolic of complete sovereignty; (e) of “the key of the pit of the abyss,” Rev. 9:1; here
the symbolism is that of competent authority; the pit represents a shaft or deep entrance
into the region (see
ABYSS
), from whence issued smoke, symbolic of blinding delusion;
(f) of “the key of the abyss,” Rev. 20:1; this is to be distinguished from (e): the
symbolism is that of the complete supremacy of God over the region of the lost, in which,
by angelic agency, Satan is destined to be confined for a thousand years.¶
KICK
(
&
, 2979), “to kick” (from
@
, an adverb signifying “with the foot”), is
used in Acts 26:14 (some mss. have it in 9:5).
For
KID
see
GOAT
KILL
1.
(
&
, 615), “to kill,” is used (a) physically, e.g., Matt. 10:28;
14:5, “put … to death,” similarly rendered in John 18:31; often of Christ’s death; in Rev.
2:13,
RV
“was killed” (
KJV
, “was slain”); 9:15,
RV
, “kill” (
KJV
, “slay”); 11:13,
RV
, “were
killed” (
KJV
, “were slain”); so in 19:21; (b) metaphorically, Rom. 7:11, of the power of
sin, which is personified, as “finding occasion, through the commandment,” and