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1.
(
$1
, 3874) is translated “consolation,” in both
KJV
and
RV
, in
Luke 2:25; 6:24; Acts 15:31; in 1 Cor. 14:3,
KJV
, “exhortation,”
RV
, “comfort”; in the
following the
KJV
has “consolation,” the
RV
, “comfort,” Rom. 15:5; 2 Cor. 1:6-7; 7:7;
Phil. 2:1; 2 Thess. 2:16; Philem. 7; in Acts 4:36,
RV
, “exhortation”; in Heb. 6:18,
RV
,
“encouragement.” See
COMFORT
.
2.
$
(
$ &
, 3889), “a comfort, consolation”: see
COMFORT
, A, No. 2.
3.
$
(
$ "
, 3890), “an encouragement, consolation,” Phil. 2:1,
RV
,
in the phrase “consolation of love.” See
COMFORT
, A, No. 3.
B. Verb.
$
(
$ !
, 3888), “to speak soothingly to,” is translated
“console,” John 11:19,
RV
; in v. 31 “were comforting”; in 1 Thess. 2:11 and 5:14,
KJV
,
“comforted” and “comfort,”
RV
, “encouraged” and “encourage.”
CONSORT (with)
(
$
$
, 4345), lit., “to assign by lot” (
, “to,”
, “a lot”),
“to allot,” is found in Acts 17:4, “consorted with,” imparting to the passive voice (the
form of the verb there) a middle voice significance, i.e., “they joined themselves to,” or
“threw in their lot with.” The passive voice significance can be retained by translating (in
the stricter sense of the word), “they were allotted” (i.e., by God) to Paul and Silas, as
followers or disciples.¶
CONSPIRACY
$
(
&
, 4945) denotes, lit., “a swearing together” (
$
, “with,”
$
, “to swear”), a “being leagued by oath, and so a conspiracy,” Acts 23:13.¶
For
CONSTANTLY
see
AFFIRM
CONSTRAIN, CONSTRAINT
A. Verbs.
1.
(
1
, 315): see
COMPEL
, No. 1.
2.
(
$ 1
, 3849) primarily denotes “to employ force contrary
to nature and right, to compel by using force” (
, “alongside,” intensive,
, “to
force”), and is used only of “constraining” by intreaty, as the two going to Emmaus did to
Christ, Luke 24:29; as Lydia did to Paul and his companions, Acts 16:15.¶
3.
$
(
!
, 4912), “to hold together, confine, secure, to hold fast” (
, “to
have or hold”), “to constrain,” is said (a) of the effect of the word of the Lord upon Paul,
Acts 18:5 (
KJV
, “was pressed in spirit,”
RV
, “was constrained by the word”); of the effect
of the love of Christ, 2 Cor. 5:14; (b) of being taken with a disease, Matt. 4:24; Luke
4:38; Acts 28:8; with fear, Luke 8:37; (c) of thronging or holding in a person, Luke 8:45;
being straitened, Luke 12:50; being in a strait betwixt two, Phil. 1:23; keeping a city in on
every side, Luke 19:43; keeping a tight hold on a person, as the men who seized the Lord
Jesus did, after bringing Him into the High Priest’s house, Luke 22:63; (d) of stopping
the ears in refusal to listen, Acts 7:57. Luke uses the word nine times out of its twelve
occurrences in the NT See
HOLD
,
KEEP
, No. (1),
PRESS
,
SICK
(lie),
STOP
,
STRAIT
(
BE IN A
),
TAKEN
(be),
THRONG
.¶