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some ancient authorities have the clause “fellow worker (with God),”
RV
, marg.; it is
absent from the most authentic mss. See
HELPER
.
LACK, LACKING
A. Noun.
$
(
% !$
, 5303) denotes (a) “that which is lacking, deficiency,
shortcoming” (akin to
$
, “to be behind, in want”), 1 Cor. 16:17; Phil. 2:30; Col.
1:24,
RV
, “that which is lacking” [
KJV
, “that which is behind” (of the afflictions of
Christ)], where the reference is not to the vicarious sufferings of Christ but to those which
He endured previously, and those which must be endured by His faithful servants; 1
Thess. 3:10, where “that which is lacking” means that which Paul had not been able to
impart to them, owing to the interruption of his spiritual instruction among them; (b)
“need, want, poverty,” Luke 21:4,
RV
, “want” (
KJV
, “penury”); 2 Cor. 8:14 (twice)
“want;” 9:12, “wants” (
KJV
, “want”); 11:9,
RV
, “(the measure of my) want” [
KJV
, “that
which was lacking (to me)”]. See
BEHIND
,
PENURY
,
WANT
.¶
Note:
In 1 Thess. 4:12,
KJV
,
, “need,” is translated “lack” (
RV
, “need”). See
NEED
.
B. Adjective.
(
#
)
, 1729), from
, “to lack,” signifies “needy, in want,” translated
“that lacked” in Acts 4:34.¶
C. Verbs.
1.
$
(
% $!
, 5302), akin to A, “to come or be behind,” is used in the sense
of “lacking” certain things, Matt. 19:20; Mark 10:21 (“one thing”; cf. No. 3 in Luke
18:22); Luke 22:35; in the sense of being inferior, 1 Cor. 12:24 (middle voice).
Elsewhere it is translated in various ways; see
BEHIND
, B, No. 1,
COME
, No. 39,
DESTITUTE
,
FAIL
,
Note
(2),
NEED
,
WANT
,
WORSE
.
2.
(
#
!
, 1641), “to be less” (from
, “less”), is translated “had
no lack,” 2 Cor. 8:15 (quoted from the Sept. of Exod. 16:18), the circumstance of the
gathering of the manna being applied to the equalizing nature of cause and effect in the
matter of supplying the wants of the needy.¶
3.
(
&
, 3007), “to leave,” denotes (a) transitively, in the passive voice, “to be
left behind, to lack,” Jas. 1:4, “ye may be lacking in (nothing),”
RV
(
KJV
, “wanting”); v. 5,
“lacketh” (
KJV
, “lack”); 2:15,
RV
, “be … in lack” (
KJV
, “be … destitute”); (b)
intransitively, active voice, Luke 18:22, “(one thing thou) lackest,” is, lit., “(one thing) is
lacking (to thee)”; Titus 1:5, “(the things) that were wanting”; 3:13, “(that nothing) be
wanting.” See
DESTITUTE
,
WANTING
.¶
Note:
In 2 Pet. 1:9, “he that lacketh” translates a phrase the lit. rendering of which is
“(he to whom these things) are not present” (
, “to be present”).
For
LAD
, in
John 6:9
, see
CHILD
, A, No. 6
LADE, LADEN
1.
$
(
$ "
, 4987) signifies (a) “to heap on” (from
, “a heap,” not in the
NT; in the Sept., e.g., Josh. 7:26; 8:29; 2 Sam. 18:17; 2 Chron. 31:6-9), Rom. 12:20, of