Basic HTML Version
1.
(
#
1
, 1455), an adjective denoting “suborned to lie in wait” ( ,
“in,”
, “to send down”), is used as a noun in Luke 20:20, “spies.”¶ In the Sept.,
Job. 19:12; 31:9.¶
2.
(
1
, 2685) denotes “a spy” (
, “down,” signifying
“closely,” and
, “to view”), Heb. 11:31.¶
B. Verb.
(
!
, 2684), “to view closely” (akin to A, No. 2), “spy out,
search out” with a view to overthrowing, is used in Gal. 2:4.¶ In the Sept., 2 Sam. 10:3; 1
Chron. 19:3.¶
For
STABLISH
see
ESTABLISH
STAFF, STAVES
1.
(
:1
, 4464), rendered “staff” or “staves” in Matt. 10:10, parallel
passages, and Heb. 11:21: see
ROD
.
2.
@$
(
"
, 3586), “wood,” then, “anything made of wood,” e.g., “a cudgel” or
“staff,” is rendered “staves” in Matt. 26:47, 55 and parallel passages. See
STOCKS
,
TREE
,
WOOD
.
For
STAGGER
see
WAVER
STAIR
(
, 304), “an ascent” (akin to
, “to go up”), denotes
“a flight of stairs,” Acts 21:35, 40. These were probably the steps leading down from the
castle of Antonia to the Temple. (See Josephus,
0!1!
, v., 5, 8.)¶ In the Sept., it is used,
e.g., in the titles of the Songs of Ascents, Ps. 120-134.
For
STALL
see
MANGER
STANCH
(
(
, 2476), transitively, “to cause to stand,” is used intransitively (“to
stand still”) in Luke 8:44, translated “stanched.” See
STAND
.
STAND (Noun and Verb), STANDING, STOOD
A. Noun.
$
(
&
, 3087), “a lampstand,” is translated “stand” in Matt. 5:15 and parallel
passages (
KJV
, “candlestick”). See
LAMPSTAND
.
B. Verbs.
1.
(
(
, 2476), (a) transitively, denotes “to cause to stand, to set”; in the
passive voice, “to be made to stand,” e.g., Matt. 2:9, lit., “was made to stand”; so Luke
11:18; 19:8 (Col. 4:12 in some mss.); in Rev. 13:1 the
RV
follows the best texts, “he
stood” (not as
KJV
, “I stood”); the reference is to the Dragon. In the middle voice, “to take
one’s stand, place oneself,” e.g., Rev. 18:15; (b) intransitively, in the 2nd aorist and
perfect active, “to stand, stand by, stand still,” e.g., Matt. 6:5; 20:32, “stood still”; in Luke
6:8, “stand forth” and “stood forth”; metaphorically, “to stand firm,” John 8:44
(negatively), in the truth (see No. 7); Rom. 5:2, in grace; 1 Cor. 15:1, in the gospel; Rom.
11:20, “by thy faith,”
RV
; 2 Cor. 1:24, “by faith” (marg., “by your faith”); of