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3.
(
#
!
, 1781) signifies “to enjoin upon, to charge with”; it is used in
the Middle Voice in the sense of commanding, Matt. 19:7; 28:20; Mark 10:3; 13:34; John
8:5; 15:14, 17; Acts 13:47; Heb. 9:20; 11:22, “gave commandment.” See
CHARGE
,
ENJOIN
.
4.
(
# 1
, 2004) signifies to appoint over, put in charge ( , “over,”
, “to appoint”); then, “to put upon one as a duty, to enjoin,” Mark 1:27; 6:27, 39;
9:25; Luke 4:36; 8:25, 31; 14:22; Acts 23:2; Philem. 8. See
CHARGE
,
ENJOIN
.¶
5.
$
(
"
, 2753), “to urge, incite, order,” suggests a stronger injunction than
No. 6, Matt. 14:9, 19; 15:35; 18:25; 27:58, 64; Luke 18:40; Acts 4:15 (frequently in Acts,
not subsequently in the NT). See
BID
.
6.
(
$ !
, 3853), “to announce beside” (
, “beside,”
,
“to announce”), “to pass on an announcement,” hence denotes “to give the word, order,
give a charge, command”, e.g., Mark 6:8; Luke 8:29; 9:21; Acts 5:28; 2 Thess. 3:4, 6, 10,
12. See
CHARGE
, B, No. 8.
7.
(
$ 1
, 4367) denotes “to arrange or set in order towards” (
,
“towards,”
, “to arrange”); hence “to prescribe, give command,” Matt. 1:24; 8:4;
Mark 1:44; Luke 5:14; Acts 10:33, 48. For Matt. 21:6 see
Note
(3) below. See
BID
.¶
Notes:
(1) In Rev. 9:4,
, “to speak,” is translated “said” in the
RV
(
KJV
,
“commanded”). (2) in Heb. 12:20
, “to charge, enjoin” (so in the
RV
), is
rendered “commanded” in the
KJV
. (3) in Matt. 21:6, the
RV
, translating
$
, as in
the best mss., has “appointed,”
KJV
, “commanded.”
COMMANDMENT
1.
(
1
, 1297) signifies “that which is imposed by decree or law,”
Heb. 11:23. It stresses the concrete character of the “commandment” more than
(No. 4). Cf. COMMAND, No. 1. For the verb in v. 22 see No. 3 under
COMMAND
.¶
2.
(
#
)
, 1785), akin to No. 3, above, denotes, in general, “an injunction,
charge, precept, commandment.” It is the most frequent term, and is used of moral and
religious precepts, e.g., Matt. 5:19; it is frequent in the Gospels, especially that of John,
and in his Epistles. See also, e.g., Acts 17:15; Rom. 7:8-13; 13:9; 1 Cor. 7:19; Eph. 2:15;
Col. 4:10. See
PRECEPT
.
3.
(
+
, 1778), akin to No. 2, marks more especially “the thing
commanded, a commission”; in Matt. 15:9; Mark 7:7; Col. 2:22,
RV
, “precepts,”
KJV
,
“commandments.” See
PRECEPT
.¶
4.
(
# )
, 2003), akin to No. 4, above, stresses “the authoritativeness of the
command”; it is used in Rom. 16:26; 1 Cor. 7:6, 25; 2 Cor. 8:8; 1 Tim. 1:1; Tit. 1:3; 2:15.
See
AUTHORLTY
.¶
Notes:
(1) For
(cf.
, above), “a proclamation,” see
CHARGE
. (2)
In Rev. 22:14 the
RV
, “wash their robes” (for
KJV
, “do His commandments”) follows the
most authentic mss.