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Notes: (1) For “strong delusion,” 2 Thess. 2:11, KJV, see ERROR, No. 1. (2) For
“strong (meat),” Heb. 5:12, 14, KJV , see SOLID.
B. Verbs.
1. $ (# , 1743), “to make strong” ( , “in,” $, “power”),
“to strengthen,” is rendered “waxed strong” in Rom. 4:20, RV (KJV , “was strong”); “be
strong,” Eph. 6:10; “were made strong,” Heb. 11:34. See ENABLE, STRENGTH, B, No. 2.
2. ($ , 2901), “to strengthen” (akin to , “strength”), is rendered
(a) “to wax strong,” Luke 1:80; 2:40; “be strong,” 1 Cor. 16:13, lit., “be strengthened”;
“to be strengthened,” Eph. 3:16 (passive voice in each place). See STRENGTHEN.¶
3. ( $ , 4732): see ESTABLISH, No. 2.
STRONGHOLDS
$ (A "$ , 3794), “a stronghold, fortress” (akin to $ , “to make
firm”), is used metaphorically in 2 Cor. 10:4, of those things in which mere human
confidence is imposed.¶
STUBBLE
(1 , 2562), “a stalk of corn,” denotes “straw” or “stubble”; in 1 Cor.
3:12, metaphorically of the effect of the most worthless form of unprofitable doctrine, in
the lives and conduct of those in a church who are the subjects of such teaching; the
teachings received and the persons who receive them are associated; the latter are “the
doctrine exhibited in concrete form” (Lightfoot).¶
For STUCK see STICK
STUDY
Notes: For , “study,” 1 Thess. 4:11, see AIM . For $ , 2 Tim.
2:15, KJV , see DILIGENCE, B, No. 1.
For STUFF, Luke 17:31 , KJV, see GOODS, No. 4
STUMBLE
1. ( $ , 4350), “to strike against,” is used of “stumbling,” (a)
physically, John 11:9, 10; (b) metaphorically, (1) of Israel in regard to Christ, whose
Person, teaching, and atoning death, and the gospel relating thereto, were contrary to all
their ideas as to the means of righteousness before God, Rom. 9:32; 1 Pet. 2:8; (2) of a
brother in the Lord in acting against the dictates of his conscience, Rom. 14:21. See
BEAT, No. 6.
2. ( & , 4417), “to cause to stumble,” signifies, intransitively, “to stumble,”
used metaphorically in Rom. 11:11, in the sense (b) (1) in No. 1; with moral significance
in Jas. 2:10 and 3:2 (twice), RV, “stumble” (KJV, “offend”); in 2 Pet. 1:10, RV, “stumble”
(KJV, “fall”).¶
Note: For , “from stumbling,” Jude 24, RV, see FALL, B, Note (6).
For STUMBLING, STUMBLING BLOCK, STUMBLING-STONE, see
OFFENSE, A, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and B
STUPOR