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1.
(
$ &
, 3860), “to give over,” is often rendered by the verb “to
commit,” e.g., to prison, Acts 8:3; to the grace of God, Acts 14:26; to God, 1 Pet. 2:23;
by God to pits of darkness, 2 Pet. 2:4. See
COMMEND
, No. 2.
2.
$
(
"
, 4100) signifies “to entrust, commit to,” Luke 16:11; 1 Tim. 1:11,
“committed to (my) trust.” See
BELIEVE
.
3.
(
&
, 5087), “to put, place,” signifies, in the middle voice, “to put for
oneself, assign, place in,” 2 Cor. 5:19, “having committed (unto us).”
4.
(
$ &
, 3908), see
COMMEND
, No. 3, signifies “to entrust,
commit to one’s charge,” e.g., in Luke 12:48; 1 Tim. 1:18; 2 Tim. 2:2; 1 Pet. 4:19 (
KJV
,
“commit the keeping”).
Notes:
(1)
4
, “to give,” is rendered “committed” in the
KJV
of John 5:22 (
RV
,
“given”). (2) For
$
(“to commit fornication) see
FORNICATION
. (3) In Rom. 2:22,
$
, “to rob temples,” is so rendered in the
RV
, for
KJV
, “commit sacrilege.” (4) In
Acts 27:40,
, “to let, leave,” is rendered in the
RV
, “left (the anchors) in,” for
KJV
,
“committed themselves to.”
B. Nouns.
1.
(
$ )
, 3866), “a putting with, a deposit” (
, “with,”
, “to
put”), and its longer form,
, are found, the former in 2 Tim. 1:12, “that
which He hath committed unto me,”
RV
, marg., lit., “my deposit” (perhaps, “my deposit
with Him”), the latter in 1 Tim. 6:20, where “guard that which is committed unto thee” is,
lit., “guard the deposit,” and 2 Tim. 1:14, “that good thing which was committed unto
thee,” i.e., the good deposit;
RV
, marg., “the good deposit.”¶
2.
(
# $ )
, 2011) denotes “a turning over (to another), a referring of a
thing to another” ( “over,”
, “to turn”), and so a committal of full powers, “a
commission,” Acts 26:12.¶
COMMODIOUS (not)
$
(
"
, 428), “not commodious,” lit., “not-well-placed” (from ,
“not,” , euphonic,
$
, “well,”
, “from”
“to put, place”), is found in Acts
27:12, where it is said of the haven at the place called Fair Havens.¶
COMMON, COMMONLY
A. Adjective.
(
K
&
, 2834) denotes (a) “common, belonging to several” (Lat.,
$
),
said of things had in common, Acts 2:44; 4:32; of faith, Titus 1:4; of salvation, Jude 3; it
stands in contrast to
, “one’s own”; (b) “ordinary, belonging to the generality, as
distinct from what is peculiar to the few”, hence the application to religious practices of
Gentiles in contrast with those of Jews; or of the ordinary people in contrast with those of
the Pharisees; hence the meaning “unhallowed, profane,” Levitically unclean (Lat.,
7 $
), said of hands, Mark 7:2 (
KJV
, “defiled,”)
RV
marg., “common”; of animals,
ceremonially unclean, Acts 10:14; 11:8; of a man, 10:28; of meats, Rom. 14:14,