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some mss. have
$
, “to beat,” imperfect tense, “they were beating.” (7) For
,
Matt. 26:67, and
, Mark 14:65, see
BLOW
,
SMITE
, No. 6 and
Note
(2). Some mss.
have
, “struck.”
STRIKER
(
)
, 4131), “a striker, a brawler” (akin to
, “to strike,” smite),
occurs in 1 Tim. 3:3; Titus 1:7.¶
For
STRING
see
BOND
, No. 1
STRIP
$
(
#
"
, 1562), “to take off, strip off,” is used especially of clothes, and
rendered “to strip” in Matt. 27:28 (some mss. have
$
, “to clothe”), and Luke 10:30,
to take off, Matt. 27:31; Mark 15:20; figuratively, 2 Cor. 5:4, “unclothed” (middle voice),
of putting off the body at death (the believer’s state of being unclothed does not refer to
the body in the grave but to the spirit, which awaits the “body of glory” at the
resurrection).¶
STRIPE
1.
(
0
, 3468), “a bruise, a wound from a stripe,” is used in 1 Pet. 2:24
(from the Sept. of Isa. 53:5), lit., in the original, “by whose bruise,” not referring to
Christ’s scourging, but figurative of the stroke of divine judgment administered
vicariously to Him on the cross (a comforting reminder to these Christian servants, who
were not infrequently buffeted, v. 20, by their masters).¶
2.
(
)
, 4127), “a blow, stripe, wound” (akin to
, “to strike,” and
, “a striker”), is rendered “stripes” in Luke 12:48 (the noun is omitted in the
original in v. 47 and the 2nd part of v. 48); Acts 16:23, 33; 2 Cor. 6:5; 11:23. See
PLAGUE
,
WOUND
.
STRIVE
1.
(
&
, 75), “to contend” (Eng., “agonize”), is rendered “to
strive” in Luke 13:24; 1 Cor. 9:25; Col. 1:29; 4:12,
RV
(
KJV
, “laboring fervently”). In 1
Tim. 4:10, the best texts have this verb (
RV
, “strive”) for
, “to suffer
reproach,”
KJV
; see
FIGHT
, B, No. 1.
2.
(
1
, 3164), “to fight, to quarrel, dispute,” is rendered “to strive”
in John 6:52; Acts 7:26; 2 Tim. 2:24. See
FIGHT
, B, No. 3.
3.
(
1
, 1264), “to struggle against” ( , intensive, and No. 2),
is used of “contending” in an argument, Acts 23:9, “strove.”¶
4.
(
#$&
, 2051), “to wrangle, strive” (
, “strife”), is used in Matt. 12:19.¶
5.
(
!
, 3054), “to strive about words” (
, “a word,” and No.
2), is used in 2 Tim. 2:14.¶
6.
(
&
, 464), “to struggle against” ( ), is used in Heb.
12:4, “striving against.”¶