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1.
(
, 4113), grammatically the feminine of
$
, “broad,” is used as
a noun (
, “a way,” being understood, i.e., “a broad way”), “a street,” Matt. 6:5;
12:19 (in some texts, Mark 6:56); Luke 10:10; 13:26; 14:21; Acts 5:15; Rev. 11:8; 21:21;
22:2.¶
2.
(
/
, 296), properly “a way around” (
, “around,”
, “a
way”), occurs in Mark 11:4,
RV
, “the open street” (
KJV
, “where two ways met”).¶
Note:
For
$
, see
LANE
. For
, see
MARKET
.
STRENGTH, STRENGTHEN
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
"
, 1411) is rendered “strength” in the
RV
and
KJV
of Rev. 1:16;
elsewhere the
RV
gives the word its more appropriate meaning “power,” for
KJV
,
“strength,” 1 Cor. 15:56; 2 Cor. 1:8; 12:9; Heb. 11:11; Rev. 3:8; 12:10. See
ABILITY
, No.
1,
POWER
, No. 1.
2.
$
(
* "
, 2479), “ability, strength,” is rendered “strength” in Mark 12:30, 33;
Luke 10:27; in Rev. 5:12,
KJV
(
RV
, “might”). See
ABILITY
, No. 2,
MIGHT
.
3.
(
$1
, 2904), “force, might,” is rendered “strength” in Luke 1:51,
RV
and
KJV
;
RV
, “strength” (
KJV
,“power”) in Eph. 1:19 and 6:10. See
DOMINION
, No. 1,
POWER
,
No. 4.
Note:
In Rev. 17:13,
KJV
,
@ $
, “freedom of action,” is rendered “strength” (
RV
,
“authority”).
B. Verbs.
1.
$
(
, 1412), “to strengthen,” occurs in Col. 1:11, and in the best
texts in Heb. 11:34, “were made strong” (some have No. 2); some have it in Eph. 6:10
(the best have No. 2).¶ In the Sept., Ps. 52:7; 68:28; Eccl. 10:10; Dan. 9:27.¶
2.
$
(
#
, 1743), “to make strong,” is rendered “increased … in
strength” in Acts 9:22; “to strengthen” in Phil. 4:13; 2 Tim. 2:1,
RV
, “be strengthened”;
4:17. See
ENABLE
,
STRONG
, B.
3.
$
(
* "
, 2480), akin to A, No. 2, “to have strength,” is so rendered in Mark
5:4,
RV
(
KJV
, “could”); in Luke 16:3,
RV
, “I have not strength to” (
KJV
, “I cannot”). See
AVAIL
.
4.
$
(
#
"
, 1765), akin to A, No. 2, a strengthened form of No. 3, is used
in Luke 22:43 and Acts 9:19.¶
5.
(
$
, 2901), “to strengthen,” is rendered “to be strengthened” in
Eph. 3:16. See
STRONG
, B.
6.
(
, 4599), from
, “strength,” occurs in 1 Pet. 5:10, in a series
of future tenses, according to the best texts, thus constituting divine promises.¶
Notes:
(1) For
$
, Heb. 9:17, see
AVAIL
. (2) For
, Luke 22:32, see
ESTABLISH
, No. 1. (3) For
, Acts 3:7, see
ESTABLISH
, No. 2. (4)
,
is found
in some texts in Acts 18:23,
KJV
, “strengthening.” See
CONFIRM
, A, No. 2,
ESTABLISH
,
No. 1. (5) For “without strength,” Rom. 5:6,
KJV
, see
WEAK
.