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hearts are “overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life,” Luke
21:34 (v. 35 in
KJV
).¶
2.
(
$
, 1029), “a noose, slipknot, halter,” is used metaphorically in 1
Cor. 7:35, “a snare” (
RV
, marg., “constraint,” “noose”).¶ In the Sept., Prov. 6:5; 7:21;
22:25.¶
SNATCH
(
2$ 1
, 726), “to snatch,” is translated “to snatch” in the
RV
only, in Matt.
13:19,
KJV
, “catcheth away”; John 10:12,
KJV
, “catcheth”; 10:28, 29,
KJV
, “pluck”; Jude
23,
KJV
, “pulling.” See
CATCH
, No. 1.
SNOW
(
0
, 5510) occurs in Matt. 28:3; Rev. 1:14. Some mss. have it in Mark 9:3
(
KJV
).¶
SO
Notes:
(1)
B $
or
$
, “thus,” is the usual word (see
THUS
). (2) Some form of
$
, “this,” is sometimes rendered “so,” e.g., Acts 23:7; Rom. 12:20. (3) It translates
, “likewise,” e.g., in Luke 5:10;
$
, “therefore,” e.g., John 4:40, 53. (4) For “so
many as,” see
MANY
; for “so much as,” see
MUCH
. (5)
-$
, when used of events,
signifies “to come to pass, happen”; in Acts 21:35 it is rendered “so it was.” See
BEFALL
,
HAPPEN
. (6) In 1 Pet. 3:17,
, “to will,” is translated “should so will,” lit., “willeth.”
(7) In 2 Cor. 12:16, the imperative mood, 3rd person singular, of
, “to be,” is used
impersonally, and signifies “be it so.” (8) In Heb. 7:9
, “a word,” is used in a phrase
rendered “so to say”; see
WORD
,
Note
(1). (9) In 1 Tim. 3:11,
$
, “likewise,” is
translated “even so.” (10)
B
, as, is rendered “so” in Heb. 3:11 (
RV
, “as”). For
association with other words see
†
, p. 1.
SOBER, SOBERLY, SOBERMINDED
A. Adjective.
(
0 $
, 4998) denotes “of sound mind” (
, “to save,”
, “the
mind”); hence, “self-controlled, soberminded,” always rendered “sober-minded” in the
RV
; in 1 Tim. 3:2 and Titus 1:8,
KJV
, “sober”; in Titus 2:2,
KJV
, “temperate”; in 2:5,
KJV
,
“discreet.”¶
Note:
For
(akin to B, No. 1), translated “sober” in 1 Tim. 3:11; Titus 2:2,
see
TEMPERATE
.
B. Verbs.
1.
(
)
, 3525) signifies “to be free from the influence of intoxicants”; in the
NT, metaphorically, it does not in itself imply watchfulness, but is used in association
with it, 1 Thess. 5:6, 8; 2 Tim. 4:5; 1 Pet. 1:13; 4:7,
RV
(
KJV
, “watch”); 5:8.¶ Cf.
and
, under AWAKE, No. 3 and
Note
.