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manifestations of lawlessness, Rom. 4:7; Heb. 10:17 (some inferior mss. have it in 8:12,
for the word
). See
LAWLESSNESS
,
TRANSGRESSION
,
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
.¶
Note:
In the phrase “man of sin,” 2 Thess. 2:3, the word suggests the idea of contempt
of Divine law, since the Antichrist will deny the existence of God.
2.
(
&
, 93) denotes “unrighteousness,” lit., “unrightness” ( , negative,
, “right”), a condition of not being right, whether with God, according to the standard
of His holiness and righteousness, or with man, according to the standard of what man
knows to be right by his conscience. In Luke 16:8 and 18:6, the phrases lit. are, “the
steward of unrighteousness” and “the judge of injustice,” the subjective genitive
describing their character; in 18:6 the meaning is “injustice” and so perhaps in Rom.
9:14. The word is usually translated “unrighteousness,” but is rendered “iniquity” in Luke
13:27; Acts 1:18; 8:23; 1 Cor. 13:6,
KJV
(
RV
, “unrighteousness”); so in 2 Tim. 2:19; Jas.
3:6.
3.
(
&
, 92) denotes “a wrong, injury, misdeed” (akin to No. 2; from
, “to do wrong”), the concrete act, in contrast to the general meaning of No. 2, and
translated “a matter of wrong,” in Acts 18:14; “wrongdoing,” 24:20 (
KJV
, “evil-doing”);
“iniquities,” Rev. 18:5. See
EVIL
,
WRONG
.¶
4.
(
$&
, 4189), akin to
, “to toil” (cf.
, “bad, worthless”;
see
BAD
), denotes “wickedness,” and is so translated in Matt. 22:18; Mark 7:22 (plural);
Luke 11:39; Rom. 1:29; 1 Cor. 5:8; Eph. 6:12; in Acts 3:26, “iniquities.” See
WICKEDNESS
.¶ Cf.
, “evil.”
5.
(
$
&
, 3892), “lawbreaking” (
, “against,”
, “law”),
denotes “transgression,” so rendered in 2 Pet. 2:16, for
KJV
, “iniquity.”¶
INJURE, INJURIOUS, INJURY
A. Verb.
(
!
, 91), akin to Nos. 2 and 3, under
INIQUITY
, is usually translated either
“to hurt,” or by some form of the verb “to do wrong.” In the
KJV
of Gal. 4:12, it is
rendered “ye have (not) injured me,” which the
RV
corrects, both in tense and meaning, to
“ye did (me no) wrong.” See
HURT
.
B. Adjective.
$
(
% $ )
, 5197), “a violent, insolent man” (akin to C), is translated
“insolent” in Rom. 1:30,
RV
, for
KJV
, “despiteful”; in 1 Tim. 1:13, “injurious.” See
DESPITEFUL
,
INSOLENT
.¶
C. Noun.
$
(
> $
, 5196): see
HARM
, A, No. 4.
INK
(
!
, 3188), the neuter of the adjective
, “black” (see Matt. 5:36; Rev.
6:5, 12), denotes “ink,” 2 Cor. 3:3; 2 John 12; 3 John 13.¶
INN
1.
$
(
1
, 2646): see
GUESTCHAMBER
.