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2nd Epistle. Contrast Rom. 1:28 (
) with the simple verb in v. 21. “In all the four
Epistles of the first Roman captivity it is an element in the Apostle’s opening prayer for
his correspondents’ well-being, Phil. 1:9; Eph. 1:17; Col. 1:9; Philem. 6” (Lightfoot).
It is used with reference to God in Rom. 1:28; 10:2; Eph. 1:17; Col. 1:10; 2 Pet. 1:3;
God and Christ, 2 Pet. 1:2; Christ, Eph. 4:13; 2 Pet. 1:8; 2:20; the will of the Lord, Col.
1:9; every good thing, Philem. 6,
RV
(
KJV
, “acknowledging”); the truth, 1 Tim. 2:4; 2
Tim. 2:25,
RV
; 3:7; Titus 1:1,
RV
; the mystery of God. Col. 2:2,
RV
, “(that they) may
know” (
KJV
, “to the acknowledgment of”), lit., “into a full knowledge.” It is used without
the mention of an object in Phil. 1:9; Col. 3:10,
RV
, “(renewed) unto knowledge.” See
ACKNOWLEDGE
.¶
3.
(
&
, 56), the negative of No. 1, “ignorance,” is rendered “no
knowledge” in 1 Cor. 15:34,
RV
(
KJV
, “not the knowledge”); in 1 Pet. 2:15, ignorance.
See
IGNORANCE
.¶
Note:
In Eph. 3:4,
KJV
,
$
, “understanding,” is translated “knowledge”;
RV
,
“understanding.” For
see p. 297.
L
LABOR (Noun and Verb)
A. Nouns.
1.
(
, 2873) primarily denotes “a striking, beating” (akin to
, “to
strike, cut”), then, “toil resulting in weariness, laborious toil, trouble”; it is translated
“labor” or “labors” in John 4:38; 1 Cor. 3:8; 15:58; 2 Cor. 6:5; 10:15; 11:23, 27,
RV
,
“labor” (
KJV
, “weariness”); 1 Thess. 1:3; 2:9; 3:5; 2 Thess. 3:8; (in some mss., Heb.
6:10); Rev. 2:2 (
RV
“toil”); 14:13. In the following the noun is used as the object of the
verb
, “to afford, give, cause,” the phrase being rendered “to trouble,” lit., “to
cause toil or trouble,” to embarrass a person by giving occasion for anxiety, as some
disciples did to the woman with the ointment, perturbing her spirit by their criticisms,
Matt. 26:10; Mark 14:6; or by distracting attention or disturbing a person’s rest, as the
importunate friend did, Luke 11:7; 18:5; in Gal. 6:17, “let no man trouble me,” the
apostle refuses, in the form of a peremptory prohibition, to allow himself to be distracted
further by the Judaizers, through their proclamation of a false gospel and by their
malicious attacks upon himself.¶
2.
(
, 4192) denotes (a) “labors, toil,” Col. 4:13, in the best mss. (some
have
, “zeal,”
KJV
); (b) “the consequence of toil,” viz., distress, suffering, pain, Rev.
16:10, 11; 21:4. See
PAIN
.¶
¶ Indicates that all the NT occurrences of the Greek word under consideration are
mentioned under the heading or sub-heading.