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7.
$
(
&
, 4865), “to strive together with” (
$
), is used in
Rom. 15:30.¶
8.
$
(
!
, 4866), “to strive together,” Phil. 1:27: see
LABOR
, B, No. 3.
Notes:
(1) In 2 Tim. 2:5,
KJV
,
, “to contend in games, wrestle” (
, “a
contest”), is rendered “strive.” See
CONTEND
. (2) For
, Rom. 15:20, see
AIM
.
For
STRIVINGS,
Titus 3:9
,
KJV
, see
FIGHTING
STROLLING
(
$ !$
, 4022), “to go about,” as an itinerant ( , “around,”
, “to go”), is used of certain Jews in Acts 19:13,
RV
, “strolling” (
KJV
,
“vagabond”). See
COMPASS
, No. 6,
WANDER
.
STRONG, STRONGER
A. Adjectives.
1.
$
(
, 1415), “powerful, mighty,” is translated “strong,” in Rom. 15:1,
where the “strong” are those referred to in ch. 14, in contrast to “the weak in faith,” those
who have scruples in regard to eating meat and the observance of days; 2 Cor. 12:10,
where the strength lies in bearing sufferings in the realization that the endurance is for
Christ’s sake; 2 Cor. 13:9, where “ye are strong” implies the good spiritual condition
which the apostle desires for the church at Corinth in having nothing requiring his
exercise of discipline (contrast No. 2 in 1 Cor. 4:10). See
ABLE
, C, No. 1,
MIGHTY
,
POSSIBLE
,
POWER
.
2.
$
(
*
$
, 2478), “strong, mighty,” is used of (a) persons: (1) God, Rev.
18:8; (2) angels, Rev. 5:2; 10:1; 18:21; (3) men, Matt. 12:29 (twice) and parallel
passages; Heb. 11:34,
KJV
, “valiant” (
RV
, “mighty”); Rev. 6:15 (in the best texts; some
have No. 1); 19:18, “mighty”; metaphorically, (4) the church at Corinth, 1 Cor. 4:10,
where the apostle reproaches them ironically with their unspiritual and self-complacent
condition; (5) of young men in Christ spiritually strong, through the Word of God, to
overcome the evil one, 1 John 2:14; of (b) things: (1) wind, Matt. 14:30 (in some mss.),
“boisterous”; (2) famine, Luke 15:14; (3) things in the mere human estimate, 1 Cor. 1:27;
(4) Paul’s letters, 2 Cor. 10 :10; (5) the Lord’s crying and tears, Heb. 5:7; (6) consolation,
6:18; (7) the voice of an angel, Rev. 18:2 (in the best texts; some have
, “great”);
(8) Babylon, Rev. 18:10; (9) thunderings, Rev. 19:6. See
BOISTEROUS
,
MIGHTY
.
3.
$
(
*
$
, 2478*), the comparative degree of No. 2, is used (a) of
Christ, Matt. 3:11; Mark 1:7; Luke 3:16; (b) of “the weakness of God,” as men without
understanding regard it, 1 Cor. 1:25; (c) of a man of superior physical strength, Luke
11:22; (d) in 1 Cor. 10:22, in a rhetorical question, implying the impossibility of escaping
the jealousy of God when it is kindled.¶
* Intensives, diminuitives, comparatives, or similar forms of other words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a single asterisk (for instance,
, from
is
1652*).