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Notes:
(1)
-$
, “a false accusation or oppression,” is used in Eccl. 5:7; 7:8;
Ps. 119:134 and Amos 2:8 (not in the NT). See No. 5, above.
(2)
-$
, “a false accuser, or oppressor,” occurs in Ps. 72:4; Prov. 28:16 (not
in the NT).
ACKNOWLEDGE (-MENT)
A. Verb.
(
#
0
, 1921) signifies (a) “to know thoroughly” ( “intensive,”
, “to know”); (b) “to recognize a thing to be what it really is, to acknowledge,” 1
Cor. 14:37 (
RV
, “take knowledge of”); 16:18; 2 Cor. 1:13-14. See
KNOW
,
KNOWLEDGE
,
PERCEIVE
.
Note:
In 1 John 2:23, “acknowledgeth” translates the verb
, “to confess,”
RV
, “confesseth.”
B. Noun.
(
# &
, 1922), akin to A, “full, or thorough knowledge, discernment,
recognition,” is translated “acknowledging” in the
KJV
of 2 Tim. 2:25; Titus 1:1 and
Philem. 6 (in all three,
RV
, “knowledge,” properly, “thorough knowledge”). In Col. 2:2,
KJV
, “acknowledgement,”
RV
, “that they may know” (i.e., “unto the full knowledge). See
KNOWLEDGE
.
ACQUAINTANCE
1.
(
, 1110), from
, “to know,” signifies “known, or
knowable”; hence, “one’s acquaintance”; it is used in this sense, in the plural, in Luke
2:44 and 23:49. See
KNOWN
,
NOTABLE
.
2.
(
5
, 2398), “one’s own,” is translated “acquaintance” in the
KJV
of Acts
24:23, “friends” (
RV
). See
COMPANY
.
For
ACROSS
(
Acts 27:5
,
RV
), see
Note
†
, p. 1
ACT
1.
$
(
#
0$-
, 1888) primarily signifies “caught in the act of theft”
( , “upon,” intensive,
$
, “self,”
, “a thief”); then, “caught in the act” of any
other crime, John 8:4. In some texts the preposition is detached from the remainder of
the adjective, and appears as
$
.¶
2.
(
&
, 1345) signifies “an act of righteousness, a concrete
expression of righteousness,” as in the
RV
of Rom. 5:18, in reference to the death of
Christ; the
KJV
wrongly renders it “the righteousness of One.” The contrast is between the
one trespass by Adam and the one act of Christ in His atoning Death. In Rev. 15:4 and
19:8, the word is used in the plural to signify, as in the
RV
, “righteous acts,” respectively,
of God, and of the saints. See
JUDGMENT
,
JUSTIFICATION
,
ORDINANCE
,
RIGHTEOUSNESS
.
3.
(
$1
, 4238), “to do, to practice,” is translated “act” in the
RV
of Acts
17:7 (
KJV
, “do”). See
COMMIT
,
DO
,
EXACT
,
KEEP
,
REQUIRE
,
USE
.
ACTIVE