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4.
(
$
, 68), “a field,” or “piece of ground,” or “the country” as distinct from
the town, is translated “lands” in Matt. 19:29; Mark 10:29, 30; Acts 4:37 (cf. No. 3 in v.
31). See
COUNTRY
, A, No. 1,
FARM
,
FIELD
,
GROUND
.
B. Adjective.
@
(
$
, 3584), “dry,” “dry land,” Matt. 23:15 ( , “land,” being understood);
Heb. 11:29: see
DRY
.
Note:
In Luke 4:26, the
RV
, “in the land (of)” and
KJV
, “a city (of),” represent no
word in the original, but give the sense of the phrase.
C. Verb.
(
!$
, 2718), “to come down, or go down, descend,” is used of
coming to port by ship, in Acts 18:22, “landed”; 21:3 (ditto); 27:5, “came to.” See
COME
,
No. 7,
GO
Note
(1).
Notes:
(1) In Acts 28:12,
RV
,
, “to bring down,” used as a nautical term in the
passive voice, is translated “touching” (
KJV
, “landing”). (2) In Acts 21:3, some mss. have
the verb
, with reference to Cyprus. (3) In Acts 20:13,
$
, “to travel by land”
or “on foot” (
, “on foot”;
$
, “a foot”), is translated “to go by land,”
RV
,
KJV
, “to
go afoot,” and
RV
marg., “to go on foot.”¶
LANE
$
(
:"
, 4505) in earlier Greek meant “the force or rush or swing of a moving
body” in later times, “a narrow road lane or street”, it is translated “lanes” in Luke 14:21;
“streets” in Matt. 6:2; “street” in Acts 9:11; 12:10. See
STREET
.¶ In the Sept., Isa. 15:3.
LANGUAGE
(
1
, 1258), primarily “a conversation, discourse” (akin to
, “to discourse or discuss”), came to denote “the language or dialect of a
country or district”, in the
KJV
and
RV
of Acts 2:6 it is translated “language”; in the
following the
RV
retains “language,” for
KJV
, “tongue,” Acts 1:19; 2:8; 21:40; 22:2;
26:14. See
TONGUE
.¶ In the Sept., Esth. 9:26.¶
LANTERN
(
, 5322) denotes either “a torch” or “a lantern” (from
, “to cause
to shine, to give light”), John 18:3, where it is distinguished from
(see
LAMP
, No.
1); it was “a link or torch consisting of strips of resinous wood tied together”
(Rutherford). “Torch” would seem to be the meaning.
LARGE
1.
(
!
, 3173), “great, large, of physical magnitude,” is translated “large” in
Mark 14:15 and Luke 22:12, of the upper room. See
GREAT
, No. 1.
2.
(
,
, 2425), of persons, denotes “sufficient, competent, fit”; of things,
“sufficient, enough, much, many (so of time)”; it is translated “large” in Matt. 28:12, of
money. See
ABLE
, C No. 2.