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translated “beware” in Matt. 7:15; 10:17; 16:6, 11-12; Luke 12:1; 20:46. See
ATTEND
,
HEED
,
REGARD
.
3.
$
(
1
, 5442), “to guard, watch, keep,” is used, in the middle voice,
of being “on one’s guard against” (the middle v. stressing personal interest in the action),
Luke 12:15, “beware of,”
RV
, “keep yourselves from,” as in Acts 21:25; in 2 Tim. 4:15,
“be thou ware”; in 2 Pet. 3:17, “beware.” See
GUARD
,
KEEP
,
OBSERVE
,
SAVE
.
BEWITCH
1.
(
&
, 940), primarily, “to slander, to prate about anyone”; then “to
bring evil on a person by feigned praise, or mislead by an evil eye, and so to charm,
bewitch” (Eng., “fascinate” is connected), is used figuratively in Gal. 3:1, of leading into
evil doctrine.¶
2.
@
(
# &
, 1839) is rendered “bewitch” in Acts 8:9, 11,
KJV
, concerning
Simon the sorcerer; it does not mean “to bewitch,” as in the case of the preceding verb,
but “to confuse, amaze” (
RV
). See
AMAZE
, B. No. 1.
BEWRAY
Note:
The word “bewrayeth,” Matt. 26:73, is a translation of
, “to make,” with
, “manifest, evident”; lit., “maketh thee manifest.”
BEYOND
In addition to the preposition
$
, “over,” rendered “beyond” in 2 Cor. 8:3, the
following adverbs have this meaning:
1.
(
"
, 19), , “upon,” and
, “those,” the word “parts”
being understood, is used in Acts 7:43.¶
2.
(
!$
, 4008), “on the other side, across,” is used with the definite article,
signifying the regions “beyond,” the opposite shore, Matt. 8:18 etc. With verbs of going it
denotes direction towards and “beyond” a place, e.g., John 10:40. It frequently indicates
“beyond,” of locality, without a verb of direction, Matt. 16:5; Mark 10:1,
RV
; John 1:28;
3:26. See
FARTHER
,
SIDE
.
Note:
In 2 Cor. 10:14, the verb
$
, “to stretch overmuch,” is so rendered in
the
RV
, for
KJV
, “… beyond our measure.”¶ In 2 Cor. 10:16 the adverb
$
,
“beyond,” is used as a preposition.
BID, BIDDEN, BADE, BID AGAIN
1.
(
!
, 2564), “to call,” often means “to bid,” in the sense of “invite,” e.g.,
Matt. 22:3-4, 8, 9; Luke 14:7-10, 13,
RV
; Rev. 19:9,
RV
. See
CALL
,
NAME
,
SURNAME
.
2.
$
(
"
, 2753), “to command,” is translated “bid” in Matt. 14:28, only. See
COMMAND
, No. 5. Compare the synonym
, “to command.”
3.
(
!
, 3004), used as the aorist tense of
, “to speak, to say,” sometimes
has the meaning of “commanding, or bidding,” and is translated “bid,” or “bade,” e.g., in
Matt. 16:12; 23:3; Luke 10:40; 9:54,
KJV
, “command,”
RV
, “bid”; Acts 11:12; “bidding,”
Acts 22:24,
RV
. See
SAY
,
SPEAK
.