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Note:
For “latter” (
$
) in the
KJV
of 1 Tim. 4:1 see
LATER
, and for 2 Pet. 2:20
see
LAST
.
For
LAUD
(
Rom. 15:11
,
KJV
) see
PRAISE
, B, No. 1
LAUGH, LAUGH TO SCORN
1.
(
1
, 1070), “to laugh,” is found in Luke 6:21, 25. This signifies loud
laughter in contrast to demonstrative weeping.¶
2.
(
1
, 2606) denotes “to laugh scornfully at,” more emphatic than
No. 1 (
, “down,” used intensively, and No. 1), and signifies derisive laughter, Matt.
9:24; Mark 5:40; Luke 8:53.¶ Cf.
$
, “to deride.”
Note:
The laughter of incredulity, as in Gen. 17:17 and 18:12, is not mentioned in the
NT.
LAUGHTER
(
!
, 1071) denotes “laughter,” Jas. 4:9.¶ This corresponds to the kind of
“laughter” mentioned above (see
LAUGH
, No. 1).
LAUNCH
1.
(
1
, 321), “to bring up” ( , “up,”
, “to lead”), is used in the
middle voice as a nautical term signifying “to put to sea”; it is translated “launch forth” in
Luke 8:22; “set sail” in Acts 13:13,
RV
(
KJV
, “loosed”); similarly in 16:11; in 18:21, for
KJV
, “sailed”; similarly in 20:3, 13; in 21:1,
RV
, “set sail,” (
KJV
, “launched”), and in v. 2,
for
KJV
, “set forth”; in 27:2 and 4 the
RV
has the verb “to put to sea,” for
KJV
“to launch”;
in v. 12 for
KJV
, “depart”; in v. 21,
RV
, “set sail” (
KJV
, “loosed”); in 28:10, 11, “sailed”
and “set sail” (
KJV
, “departed”). See
BRING
,
DEPART
,
LEAD
,
LOOSE
,
OFEER
,
PUT
,
SAIL
,
SET
.
2.
(
#
1
, 1877), “to lead up upon” ( , “upon,” and No. 1), is used as a
nautical term with
, “a ship,” understood, denoting “to put out to sea,” translated in
Luke 5:3, put out,
RV
(
KJV
, “thrust out”); in v. 4, for
KJV
, “launch.” For the nonnautical
significance “to return,” see Matt. 21:18. See
PUT
,
RETURN
,
THRUST
.¶ In the Sept., Zech.
4:12, “that communicate with (the golden oil vessels).”
LAW
A. Nouns.
1.
(
, 3551), akin to
, “to divide out, distribute,” primarily meant
“that which is assigned”; hence, “usage, custom,” and then, “law, law as prescribed by
custom, or by statute”; the word
, “custom,” was retained for unwritten “law,” while
became the established name for “law” as decreed by a state and set up as the
standard for the administration of justice.
In the NT it is used (a) of “law” in general, e.g., Rom. 2:12, 13, “a law” (
RV
),
expressing a general principle relating to “law”; v. 14, last part; 3:27, “By what manner
of law?” i.e., “by what sort of principle (has the glorying been excluded)?”; 4:15 (last
part); 5:13, referring to the period between Adam’s trespass and the giving of the Law;
7:1 (1st part,
RV
marg., “law”); against those graces which constitute the fruit of the Spirit
“there is no law,” Gal. 5:23; “the ostensible aim of the law is to restrain the evil
tendencies natural to man in his fallen estate, yet in experience law finds itself not merely