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1.
(
, 1183), from
, “tenth”, in the active voice denotes “to
take tithes of,” Heb. 7:6,
RV
, “hath taken (
KJV
, received) tithes”; in the passive, “to pay
tithes,” 7:9,
RV
, “hath paid (
KJV
, ‘payed’) tithes.”¶ In the Sept., Neh. 10:37.¶
2.
(
, 586) denotes (a) “to tithe” ( , “from,”
,
“tenth”), Matt. 23:23 (
KJV
, “pay tithe of”); Luke 11:42; in Luke 18:12 (where the best
texts have the alternative form
$
), “I give tithes”; (b) “to exact tithes” from
Heb. 7:5.¶
3.
$
(
, 586v), “to give tithes,” in Luke 18:12 (some texts have
No. 2).¶
Note:
Heb. 7:4-9 shows the superiority of the Melchizedek priesthood to the
Levitical, in that (1) Abraham, the ancestor of the Levites, paid “tithes” to Melchizedek
(Gen. 14:20); (2) Melchizedek, whose genealogy is outside that of the Levites, took
“tithes” of Abraham, the recipient himself of the divine promises; (3) whereas death is
the natural lot of those who receive “tithes,” the death of Melchizedek is not recorded; (4)
the Levites who received “tithes” virtually paid them through Abraham to Melchizedek.
TITLE
(
&
, 5102), from Latin
$ $
, is used of the inscription above the cross of
Christ, John 19:19, 20. See
SUPERSCRIPTION
.¶
TITTLE
or
(
$ &
, 2762), “a little horn” (
, “a horn”), was used to denote
the small stroke distinguishing one Hebrew letter from another. The rabbis attached great
importance to these; hence the significance of the Lord’s statements in Matt. 5:18 and
Luke 16:17, charging the Pharisees with hypocrisy, because, while professing the most
scrupulous reverence to the Law, they violated its spirit.
Grammarians used the word to denote the accents in Greek words.
For
TO
see
†
, p. 1
TODAY, THIS DAY
(
) $
, 4594), an adverb (the Attic form is
), akin to
, a
day, with the prefix originally representing a pronoun. It is used frequently in Matthew,
Luke and Acts; in the last it is always rendered “this day”; also in Heb. 1:5, and the
RV
of
5:5 (
KJV
, “to day”) in the same quotation; “today” in 3:7, 13, 15; 4:7 (twice); 13:8; also
Jas. 4:13.
The clause containing
is sometimes introduced by the conjunction
,
“that,” e.g., Mark 14:30; Luke 4:21; 19:9; sometimes without the conjunction, e.g., Luke
22:34; 23:43, where “today” is to be attached to the next statement, “shalt thou be with
Me”; there are no grammatical reasons for the insistence that the connection must be with
the statement “Verily I say unto thee,” nor is such an idea necessitated by examples from
either the Sept. or the NT; the connection given in the
KJV
and
RV
is right.
v Variant spellings of forms of other words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a “v”
following the number (for instance,
, a variant of
, is 1790v).