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4.
(
!
, 479), “to bid again, invite in turn,” is found in Luke 14:12.¶
Notes:
(1)
6
, “to say,” is translated “bid” and “biddeth” in the
KJV
of 2 John 10,
11;
RV
, “give (him no greeting),” “giveth (him greeting). See
GREETING
.
(2) In Matt. 1:24,
, “to command,” is translated “had bidden,”
KJV
;
RV
,
“commanded.” See
COMMAND
.
BID FAREWELL
1.
(
1
, 657) is used in the middle voice to signify “to bid adieu to
a person.” It primarily means “to set apart, separate” ( , “from,”
, “to set,
arrange”); then, “to take leave of, to bid farewell to,” Mark 6:46 (
RV
); Luke 9:61; “to give
parting instructions to,” Acts 18:18, 21; 2 Cor. 2:13; “to forsake, renounce,” Luke 14:33.
See
FORSAKE
,
RENOUNCE
,
SEND
,
Note
(2) at end.¶
2.
(
, 575 and
, 782), “to bid farewell” ( , “from,”
,
“to greet”), is used in Acts 21:6,
KJV
, “had taken our leave of”;
RV
, “bade … farewell.”¶
BIER
(
$
, 4673) originally denoted a receptacle for containing the bones of the
dead, “a cinerary urn”; then “a coffin,” Gen. 50:26; Job 21:32; then, “the funeral couch or
bier” on which the Jews bore their dead to burial, Luke 7:14.¶
BILL
1.
(
&
, 975), primarily “a small book, a scroll, or any sheet on which
something has been written”; hence, in connection with
, “divorce,” signifies
“a bill of divorcement,” Matt. 19:7 (
KJV
, “writing”); Mark 10:4. See
BOOK
,
SCROLL
,
WRITING
.
2.
(
$1
, 1121), from
, “to write” (Eng., “graph, graphic,” etc.), in
Luke 16:6,
KJV
, is translated “bill.” It lit. signifies that which is drawn, a picture; hence, a
written document; hence, a “bill,” or bond, or note of hand, showing the amount of
indebtedness. In the passage referred to the word is in the plural, indicating perhaps, but
not necessarily, various “bills.” The bonds mentioned in rabbinical writings, were formal,
signed by witnesses and the Sanhedrin of three, or informal, when only the debtor signed.
The latter were usually written on wax, and easily altered. See
LEARNING
,
LETTER
,
SCRIPTURE
,
WRITING
.
For
BILLOWS
,
Luke 21:25
,
RV
, see
WAVE
BIND, BINDING (see also
BOUND
)
1.
(
!
, 1210), “to bind,” is used (a) literally, of any sort of “binding,” e.g., Acts
22:5; 24:27, (b) figuratively, of the Word of God, as not being “bound,” 2 Tim. 2:9, i.e.,
its ministry, course and efficacy were not hindered by the bonds and imprisonment
suffered by the apostle. A woman who was bent together, had been “bound” by Satan
through the work of a demon, Luke 13:16. Paul speaks of himself, in Acts 20:22, as being
“bound in the spirit,” i.e. compelled by his convictions, under the constraining power of
the Spirit of God, to go to Jerusalem. A wife is said to be “bound” to her husband, Rom.
7:2; 1 Cor. 7:39; and the husband to the wife, 1 Cor. 7:27. The Lord’s words to the
apostle Peter in Matt. 16:19, as to “binding,” and to all the disciples in 18:18, signify, in