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Note:
For
$
, see
SUBJECT
, A.
SUBORN
$
(
% 1
, 5260), “to throw or put under, to subject,” denoted “to
suggest, whisper, prompt”; hence, “to instigate,” translated “suborned” in Acts 6:11. To
“suborn” in the legal sense is to procure a person who will take a false oath. The idea of
making suggestions is probably present in this use of the word.¶
SUBSTANCE
1.
$
(
' &
, 3776), derived from a present participial form of
, “to be,”
denotes “substance, property,” Luke 15:12, 13,
RV
, “substance,”
KJV
, “goods” and
“substance.”¶
2.
$
(
% 1$
, 5224), the neuter plural of the present participle of
$
, “to be in existence,” is used as a noun with the article, signifying one’s
“goods,” and translated “substance” in Luke 8:3. See
GOODS
,
POSSESS
, A, No. 3.
3.
$ @
(
> $
, 5223), existence (akin to No. 2), possession: see
POSSESS
, B,
No. 4.
4.
$
(
%
, 5287), for which see
CONFIDENCE
, A, No. 2, is translated
substance” (a) in Heb. 1:3, of Christ as “the very image” of God’s “substance”; here the
word has the meaning of the real nature of that to which reference is made in contrast to
the outward manifestation (see the preceding clause); it speaks of the divine essence of
God existent and expressed in the revelation of His Son. The
KJV
, “person” is an
anachronism; the word was not so rendered till the 4th cent. Most of the earlier Eng.
versions have “substance”; (b) in Heb. 11:1 it has the meaning of “confidence, assurance”
(
RV
), marg., “the giving substance to,”
KJV
, “substance,” something that could not equally
be expressed by
, “hope.”
SUBTLY
(
&
, 2686), “to deal subtly” (from
, “against,
under,”
, “wise, subtle,” used in the Sept. in 2 Sam. 13:3, of Jonadab), occurs in
Acts 7:19.¶ In the Sept.. Ex. 1:10.¶
SUBTLETY
Note:
For
, Matt. 26:4; Acts 13:10, see
GUILE
. For
$
, 2 Cor. 11:3, see
CRAFTINESS
.
SUBVERT, SUBVERTING
A. Verb.
$
(
1
, 384), primarily, “to pack up baggage” ( , “up,”
$
,
“a vessel”), hence, from a military point of view, “to dismantle a town, to plunder,” is
used metaphorically in Acts 15:24, of unsettling or “subverting” the souls of believers. In
the papyri it is used of going bankrupt.¶
Note:
For
, Titus 1:11, see
OVERTHROW
, B, No. 3. For
, Titus 3:11,
see
PERVERT
, No. 4.
B. Noun.