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4.
@ $
(
# &
, 1849), “authority, right,” is rendered “liberty” in 1 Cor. 8:9
(marg., “power”), “this liberty of yours,” or “this right which you assert.” See
AUTHORITY
.
B. Adjective.
$
(
# " $
, 1658) is rendered “at liberty” in 1 Cor. 7:39,
KJV
(
RV
“free”).
See
FREE
.
C. Verbs.
1.
$
(
"
, 630), for the meanings of which see
LET
, No. 3, is translated “to
set at liberty” in Acts 26:32 and Heb. 13:23. See
DISMISS
.
2.
(
!
, 649), “to send away,” is translated “to set at liberty” in
Luke 4:18. See
SEND
.
Note:
In Acts 27:3,
KJV
,
is rendered “gave … liberty” (
RV
“gave … leave”).
See
LEAVE
(b).
For
LICENCE
(in
Acts 21:40
and
25:16
,
KJV
) see
LEAVE
(b) and
OPPORTUNITY
, A, No. 3
LICK
(
# &
, 1952a), “to lick over” ( , “over,”
, “to lick”), is said of
the dogs in Luke 16:21. Some mss. have
, “to lick off.”¶
LIE (falsehood: Noun and Verb) A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
, 5579), “a falsehood, lie” (see also under
LIAR
), is translated “lie”
in John 8:44 (lit., “the lie”); Rom. 1:25, where it stands by metonymy for an idol, as, e.g.,
in Isa. 44:20; Jer. 10:14; 13:25; Amos 2:4 (plural); 2 Thess. 2:11, with special reference
to the lie of v. 4, that man is God (cf. Gen. 3:5); 1 John 2:21, 27; Rev. 21:27; 22:15; in
Eph. 4:25,
KJV
“lying,”
RV
, “falsehood,” the practice; in Rev. 14:5,
RV
, “lie.” (some mss.
have
, “guile,”
KJV
); 2 Thess. 2:9, where “lying wonders” is, lit., “wonders of
falsehood,” i.e., wonders calculated to deceive (cf. Rev. 13:13-15), the purpose being to
deceive people into the acknowledgement of the spurious claim to deity on the part of the
Man of Sin.¶
Note:
In Rom. 1:25 the “lie” or idol is the outcome of pagan religion; in 1 John 2:21,
22 the “lie” is the denial that Jesus is the Christ; in 2 Thess. 2:11 the “lie” is the claim of
the Man of Sin.
2.
$
(
, 5582), “a falsehood,” or “an acted lie,” Rom. 3:7, where “my
lie” is not idolatry, but either the universal false attitude of man toward God or that with
which his detractors charged the apostle; the former seems to be the meaning.¶
B. Adjectives.
1.
$
(
, 5573) denotes “speaking falsely” (
$
, “false,”
, “a word”) in 1 Tim. 4:2, where the adjective is translated “that speak lies,”
RV
(
KJV
, “speaking lies”) and is applied to “demons,” the actual utterances being by their
human agents.¶