1.
(
1
, 303,
1
, 3349), lit., “up to the middle of,” i.e., among, or in the
midst of, hence, between, is used in 1 Cor. 6:5, of those in the church able to decide
between brother and brother, instead of their going to law with one another in the world’s
courts.
2.
@$
(
"
, 3342), “in the midst, or between” (from
, and
@$
, i.e.,
$
,
“with”), is used as a preposition, (a) of mutual relation, Matt. 18:15; Acts 15:9; Rom.
2:15,
RV
, “one with another,” lit., “between one another,” for
KJV
, “the meanwhile”; (b)
of place, Matt. 23:35; Luke 11:51; 16:26; Acts 12:6; (c) of time, “meanwhile,” John 4:31.
In Acts 13:42, the
KJV
marg. has “in the week between,” the literal rendering. See
WHILE
.¶
Note:
The phrase
( , “out of,”
, “with”) is translated “between … and”
in the
KJV
of John 3:25 (
RV
, “on the part of … with”).
BEWAIL
1.
(
&
, 2799), “to wail,” whether with tears or any external expression of
grief, is regularly translated “weep” in the
RV
; once in the
KJV
it is rendered “bewail,”
Rev. 18:9. See
WEEP
.
Note:
The associated noun is
$
, “weeping.” Cf.
$
, “to weep,” John
11:35.¶
2.
(
, 2875), primarily, “to beat, smite”; then, “to cut off,” Matt. 21:8;
Mark 11:8, is used in the middle voice, of beating oneself, beating the breast, as a token
of grief; hence, “to bewail,” Matt. 11:17 (
RV
, “mourn,” for
KJV
, “lament”); 24:30,
“mourn”; Rev. 1:7 (
RV
, “mourn”;
KJV
, “wail”); in Luke 8:52; 23:27 “bewail”; in Rev.
18:9, “wail” (for
KJV
, “lament”). See
CUT
,
MOURN
.¶ Cf.
, “lamentation,” Acts
8:2.¶
3.
(
!
, 3996) denotes “to lament, mourn,” especially for the dead; in 2
Cor. 12:21,
RV
, “mourn” (
KJV
, “bewail”). See also Rev. 18:11, 15, 19. Cf.
,
“mourning.” See
MOURN
.
Notes:
(1)
, “to sing a dirge, to lament,” is rendered “wail” in Matt. 11:17,
RV
; “mourned” in Luke 7:32; “to lament” in Luke 23:27 and John 16:20.¶
,
“lamentation,” occurs in Matt. 2:18.¶
(2)
> $
from
$
, “to wail” (a verb not found in the NT), denotes
“mourning,” Matt. 2:18 and 2 Cor. 7:7.¶
(3) Cf.
$
, “to grieve”; see also Trench,
- !
Sec. lxv.
BEWARE
1.
(
!
, 991), “to see,” is applied to mental vision, and is sometimes used by
way of warning “to take heed” against an object, Mark 8:15; 12:38; Acts 13:40; Phil. 3:2
(three times); in Col. 2:8,
RV
, “take heed,” marg., “see whether. See
BEHOLD
.
2.
(
$ !
, 4337), lit., “to hold to” (
, “to,”
, “to have, to hold”),
hence, “to turn one’s mind or attention to a thing by being on one’s guard against it,” is