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TIE
1.
(
!
, 1210), “to bind,” is rendered “to tie” in Matt. 21:2; Mark 11:2, 4; Luke
19:30. See
BIND
.
2.
(
$ &
, 4385), “to stretch out or forth,” is used of preparations for
scourging, Acts 22:25,
RV
, “had tied (him) up” (
KJV
, “bound”).¶
TILES, TILING
(
!$
, 2766), “potter’s clay,” or “an earthen vessel,” denotes in the
plural “tiles” in Luke 5:19,
RV
,
KJV
, “tiling.”¶ In the Sept., 2 Sam. 17:25.¶
For
TILL
(Conjunction) see
†
, p. 1
TILL (Verb)
(
$ !
, 1090), “to till the ground,” is used in the passive voice in Heb.
6:7,
RV
, “it is tilled” (
KJV
, ".. dressed).¶ Moulton and Milligan point out that, agriculture
being the principal industry in Egypt, this word and its cognates (
, see
HUSBANDRY
, and
, see
HUSBANDMAN
) are very common in the papyri with
reference to the cultivation of private allotments and the crown lands.
TIME
A. Nouns.
1.
(
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, 5550) denotes “a space of time,” whether short, e.g., Matt. 2:7;
Luke 4:5, or long, e.g., Luke 8:27; 20:9; or a succession of “times,” shorter, e.g., Acts
20:18, or longer, e.g., Rom. 16:25,
RV
, “times eternal”; or duration of “time,” e.g., Mark
2:19, 2nd part,
RV
, “while” (
KJV
, “as long as”), lit., “for whatever time.” For a fuller
treatment see
SEASON
, A, No. 2.
2.
(
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, 2540), primarily “due measure, due proportion,” when used of
“time,” signified “a fixed or definite period, a season,” sometimes an opportune or
seasonable “time,” e.g., Rom. 5:6,
RV
, “season”; Gal. 6:10, “opportunity.” In Mark 10:30
and Luke 18:30, “this time” (
), i.e., “in this lifetime,” is contrasted with “the
coming age.” In 1 Thess. 5:1, “the times and the seasons,” “times” (
) refers to the
duration of the interval previous to the Parousia of Christ and the length of “time” it will
occupy (see
COMING
, No. 3), as well as other periods; “seasons” refers to the
characteristics of these periods. See
SEASON
, A, No. 1, and the contrasts between
and
under
SEASON
, A, No. 2.
3.
(
O$
, 5610), primarily, “any time or period fixed by nature,” is translated
“time” in Matt. 14:15; Luke 14:17; Rom. 13:11, “high time”; in the following the
RV
renders it “hour,” for
KJV
, “time,” Matt. 18:1; Luke 1:10; John 16:2, 4, 25; 1 John 2:18
(twice); Rev. 14:15; in Mark 6:35,
RV
, “day”; in 1 Thess. 2:17,
RV
, “a short (season),” lit.,
“(the season,
KJV
, ‘time’) of an hour.” See
HOUR
.
B. Adverbs.
1.
(
0
, 4455), “ever yet,” is rendered “at any time” in John 1:18; 5:37; 1
John 4:12. For Luke 15:29 see
Note
(14), below. See
NEVER
.