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Notes:
(1) In Acts 16:37,
, “for,” is translated “verily.” (2) In Heb. 2:16,
$
(in
some texts
$
), a particle meaning “of course, we know,” is rendered “verily.”¶ (3)
In Luke 11:51,
KJV
,
, “yea” (
RV
), is translated “verily.” (4) The particle
(see
INDEED
, No. 1) is rendered “verily,” e.g., in 1 Cor. 5:3; 14:17; Heb. 12:10; in the
KJV
,
Heb. 3:5; 7:5, 18; 1 Pet. 1:20; in Acts 26:9 it is combined with
$
(“therefore”): see
YEA
, No. 4.
For
VERITY,
1 Tim. 2:7
,
KJV
, see
TRUTH
VERY
Notes:
(1) When “very” forms part of the translation of numerous other words (e.g.,
act, bold, many, precious, sorrowful, well), there is no separate word in the original. (2)
For
, “exceedingly,” sometimes rendered “very” in the
KJV
, see
EXCEEDING
, B,
No. 2. (3) Occasionally one of the forms of the pronoun
$
, “self, same,” is translated
“very”; the
RV
rendering is sometimes “himself,” etc., e.g., 1 Thess. 5:23, “(The God of
peace) Himself”; see, however, John 14:11, “(the) very (works)”; Rom. 13:6 and Phil.
1:6, “(this) very (thing)”; Heb. 10:1, “(the) very (image)”; and the
RV
, “very” (
KJV
,
“same”) in Luke 12:12; 20:19; 24:13, 33; Acts 16:18; Rom. 9:17; Eph. 6:22. (4)
Sometimes it translates the conjunction
, in the sense of “even,” e.g., Matt. 10:30; in
24:24,
KJV
, “very” (
RV
, “even”); Luke 12:59. (5) In Philem. 12,
RV
, “my very” translates
the possessive pronoun
(in the neuter plural,
) used with emphasis. (6) In Mark
8:1 some texts have
$
, “very great,”
KJV
(from
, “all,”
$
, “much”),
RV
,
“a great (
$
) multitude” (after
, “again”). (7) For “very great” in Matt. 21:8 see
GREAT
,
Note
(6). (8) The adverb
is translated “very” in Mark 16:2; 2 Cor. 11:5;
12:11. See
EXCEEDING
, B, No. 1.
VESSEL
1.
$
(
, 4632) is used (a) of “a vessel or implement” of various kinds,
Mark 11:16; Luke 8:16; John 19:29; Acts 10:11, 16; 11:5; 27:17 (a sail); Rom. 9:21; 2
Tim. 2:20; Heb. 9:21; Rev. 2:27; 18:12; (b) of “goods or household stuff,” Matt. 12:29
and Mark 3:27, “goods”; Luke 17:31,
RV
, “goods” (
KJV
, “stuff”); (c) of “persons,” (1) for
the service of God, Acts 9:15, “a (chosen) vessel”; 2 Tim. 2:21, “a vessel (unto honor)”;
(2) the “subjects” of divine wrath, Rom. 9:22; (3) the “subjects” of divine mercy, Rom.
9:23; (4) the human frame, 2 Cor. 4:7; perhaps 1 Thess. 4:4; (5) a husband and wife, 1
Pet. 3:7; of the wife, probably, 1 Thess. 4:4; while the exhortation to each one “to possess
himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor” is regarded by some as referring to
the believer’s body [cf. Rom. 6:13; 1 Cor. 9:27; see No. (4)], the view that the “vessel”
signifies the wife, and that the reference is to the sanctified maintenance of the married
state, is supported by the facts that in 1 Pet. 3:7 the same word
, “honor,” is used with
regard to the wife, again in Heb. 13:4,
, “honorable” (
RV
, “in honor”) is used in
regard to marriage; further, the preceding command in 1 Thess. 4 is against fornication,
and the succeeding one (v. 6) is against adultery.¶ In Ruth 4:10, Sept.,
, “to
possess,” is used of a wife.