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For
THAT
(Conjunction, etc.) see
, p. 1
For
THAT
(Demonstrative Pronoun), see
THIS
THEATER
(
! $
, 2302), “a theater,” was used also as “a place of assembly,” Acts
19:29, 31; in 1 Cor. 4:9 it is used of “a show” or “spectacle.” See
SPECTACLE
THEE
Note:
This translates the oblique forms of the pronoun
$
, “thou.” In 2 Tim. 4:11, it
translates the reflexive pronoun
$ $
, “thyself.”
THEFT
1.
(
)
, 2829), akin to
, “to steal,” is used in the plural in Matt. 15:19;
Mark 7:22.¶
2.
(
!
, 2809), “a thing stolen,” and so, “a theft,” is used in the plural in
Rev. 9:21.¶ In the Sept., Gen. 31:39; Ex. 22:3, 4.¶
THEIR, THEIRS
Note:
These pronouns are the rendering of (1)
$
, the genitive plur. of
$
, “he,”
e.g., Matt. 2:12; (2)
$
, “of themselves,” the genitive plur. of
$ $
, “of
himself,” e.g., Matt. 8:22; Rom. 16:4, 18, “their own”; or the accusative plur.
$ $
,
e.g., 2 Cor. 8:5, “their own selves” (for John 20:10, see
HOME
, A, No. 3); (3)
$
, the
accusative plur. of
, “one’s own,” e.g., 1 Cor. 14:35, “their own”; (4)
$
, lit., “of
these,” the gen. plur. of
$
, “this,” Rom. 11:30, “their (disobedience)”; (5)
,
the gen. plur. of
, “that one” (emphatic), e.g., 2 Cor. 8:14 (twice), “their,” lit., “of
those”; 2 Tim. 3:9, “theirs.”
THEM, THEMSELVES
Note:
These translate the plural, in various forms, of (1)
$
[see (1) above], e.g.,
Matt. 3:7; (2)
$
[see (2) above], e.g., Matt. 15:30; (3)
$
(
$ $
) [see (4)
above], e.g., Acts 21:24; (4)
[see (5) above], e.g., Matt. 13:11. Regarding
,
“of one another,” and its other forms, the
RV
substitutes “one another” for the
KJV
“themselves” in Mark 8:16; 9:34; Luke 4:36; John 6:52; 11:56; 16:17; 19:24; Acts 26:31;
28:4; Rom. 2:15, but adheres to the rendering “themselves” in Mark 15:31; Acts 4:15;
28:25.
THEN
1.
(
, 5119), a demonstrative adverb of time, denoting “at that time,” is used
(a) of concurrent events, e.g., Matt. 2:17; Gal. 4:8, “at that time”; v. 29, “then”; 2 Pet.
3:6,“(the world) that then was,” lit., “(the) then (world)”; (b) of consequent events, “then,
thereupon,” e.g., Matt. 2:7; Luke 11:26; 16:16, “[from (
KJV
, “since”)] that time”; John
11:14; Acts 17:14; (c) of things future, e.g., Matt. 7:23; 24:30 (twice), 40; eight times in
ch. 25; 1 Cor. 4:5; Gal. 6:4; 1 Thess. 5:3; 2 Thess. 2:8. It occurs 90 times in Matthew,
more than in all the rest of the NT together.