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SET
A. Verbs.
1.
(
(
, 2476), “to cause to stand,” is translated “to set” in Matt. 4:5 (aorist
tense in the best texts; some have the present, as in
KJV
); 18:2; 25:33; Mark 9:36; Luke
4:9; 9:47; John 8:3; Acts 4:7; 5:27; 6:6; v. 13, “set up”; 22:30; in Jude 24,
RV
, “to set”
(
KJV
, “to present”). See
ABIDE
, No. 10.
2.
(
&
, 2525), lit., to set down” (
, “down,” and No. 1), “to
appoint, constitute,” is translated “to set” in Matt. 24:45, 47; 25:21, 23,
RV
(
KJV
, “made”);
so Luke 12:42, 44; it is found in some mss. in Heb. 2:7, and translated “set over” (
KJV
).
See
APPOINT
, No. 2.
3.
(
&
, 5087), “to put, to place,” is translated “to set” in Acts 1:7, of times
and seasons (
KJV
, “put”); Acts 13:47; Rev. 10:2; “setteth on” (of wine) in John 2:10,
RV
(
KJV
, “doth set forth”); in the
KJV
of Mark 4:21 (2nd part) and in Luke 8:16 it is rendered
“set” (
RV
, “put”), of a lamp (some texts have No. 6 in both). In Mark 4:30 it is used of
“setting” forth by parable the teaching concerning the kingdom of God,
RV
, “shall we set
(it) forth” (
KJV
, “compare”). See
APPOINT
, No. 3.
4.
(
$ &
, 3908), “to place beside” (
, “beside,” and No. 3), “to
set forth,” of a parable, Matt. 13:24,
RV
(
KJV
, “put forth”); “to set before,” of food, Mark
6:41; 8:6 (twice), 7; Luke 9:16; 10:8; 11:6; Acts 16:34; 1 Cor. 10:27. See
ALLEGE
, No. 1,
PUT
, No. 3.
5.
(
$ &
, 4060), “to place or put around” ( , “around,” and No.
3), is translated “to set about” (of a hedge) in Mark 12:1. See
BESTOW
, No. 5,
PUT
.
6.
(
# &
, 2007), “to put, set or lay upon,” is used of the placing over
the head of Christ on the cross “His accusation,” Matt. 27:37, “set up”; of attacking a
person, Acts 18:10, “shall set on.” See
ADD
, No. 1.
7.
(
$ &
, 4388), “to set before” ( , “before,” and No. 3), is used in
the middle voice, translated “set forth,” of Christ, in Rom. 3:25 (
RV
marg., “purposed”).
See
PURPOSE
, B, No. 3.
8.
(
&
, 1325), “to give,” is translated “I have set before” in Rev. 3:8 (
RV
marg., “given”). See
GIVE
.
9.
(
&
, 2523), used transitively, signifies “to cause to sit down, set,
appoint,” translated “to set” in Acts 2:30,
RV
(
KJV
, incorrectly, “to sit”); in 1 Cor. 6:4, of
appointing, i.e., obtaining the services of, judges in lawcourts; in Eph. 1:20,
RV
, “made
(Him) to sit” (
KJV
, “set”).
Note:
In Heb. 8:1,
is used intransitively,
RV
, “sat down” (
KJV
, “is set”); so in
12:2,
RV
, “hath sat down” (
KJV
, “is set down”); Rev. 3:21,
RV
, “I … sat down” (
KJV
, “am
set down”). So
in Matt. 21:7 (last part),
RV
, “He sat” [some mss. have the
plural in a transitive sense,
KJV
, “they set (Him)].” See
SIT
, No. 8.
10.
(
1
, 5021), “to arrange, assign, order,” is translated “set (under
authority)” in Luke 7:8. In 1 Cor. 16:15,
RV
, “have set (themselves),”
KJV
, “addicted.”
See
APPOINT
, No. 5.