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which distinguishes certain Hebrew letters from others), to express the fact that not a
single item of the Law will pass away or remain unfulfilled.¶
JOURNEY (Noun and Verb), JOURNEYINGS
A. Nouns.
1.
(
3
, 3598), “a way, path, road,” used of a traveler’s way, a “journey,” is
rendered “journey” in Matt. 10:13; Mark 6:8; Luke 2:44, “a day’s journey” (probably to
Beeroth, six miles north of Jerusalem); 9:3; 11:6; Acts 1:12, “a Sabbath day’s journey,”
i.e., the journey which a Jew was allowed to take on the Sabbath, viz., about 2,000 yards
or cubits (estimates vary). The regulation was not a Mosaic enactment, but a rabbinical
tradition, based upon an exposition of Exod. 16:29, and a comparison of the width of the
suburb of a Levitical city as enjoined in Num. 35:4, 5, and the distance between the ark
and the people at the crossing of the Jordan, Josh. 3:4. In regard to Acts 1:12, there is no
discrepancy between this and Luke 24:50, where the
RV
rightly translates by “over
against Bethany,” which does not fix the exact spot of the Ascension. See
HIGHWAY
,
WAY
.
2.
(
3 $&
, 3597), “a wayfaring, journeying” (No. 1, and
, “a
way, a passage”), is used of the Lord’s journey to Samaria, John 4:6, and of Paul’s
“journeyings,” 2 Cor. 11:26. Cf. B, No. 3.
Note:
In Luke 13:22 the noun
, “a journey, a going” (cf.
, No. 2, above),
is used with the verb
, “to make,” with the meaning “to journey,” lit., “making (for
Himself, middle voice) a way”, “journeying.” In Jas. 1:11, “ways.” See
WAY
.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
$
(
$ "
, 4198) is used in the middle voice in the NT, signifying “to
go, proceed, go on one’s way”; it is translated by the verb “to journey” in Acts 9:3; 22:6,
“as I made (my) journey”; 26:13; Rom. 15:24 (1st part),
KJV
, “I take my journey,”
RV
, “I
go” (for the 2nd part, “in my journey,” see No. 2). See
GO
, No. 1.
2.
$
(
$ "
, 1279), “to carry over,” used in the passive voice with
the meaning “to pass by, to journey through,” is translated “in my journey,” in Rom.
15:24, lit., “journeying through”; in Luke 18:36,
RV
, “going by” (
KJV
“pass by”). See
GO
,
No. 4.
3.
(
3 $!
, 3596), “to travel, journey” (akin to A, No. 2), is found in
Acts 10:9.¶
4.
$
(
3 "
, 3593), “to be on the way, journey” (from
, “a way”), the
simplest form of the verbs denoting “to journey,” is used in the parable of the good
samaritan, Luke 10:33.¶
5.
$ $
(
"
, 4922),
$
, “with,” and No. 4, “to journey with,” occurs in
Acts 9:7.¶ In the Sept., Zech. 8:21.¶
6.
$
(
'
, 2137), “to help on one’s way” (
$
, “well,” and
), is used in
the passive voice with the meaning “to have a prosperous journey”; so the
KJV
of Rom.
1:10; the
RV
. “I may be prospered” rightly expresses the metaphorical use which the verb
acquired, without reference to a “journey”; see 1 Cor. 16:2; 3 John 2.¶