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(marg., “tabernacle”),
KJV
, “shall rest.” See
DWELL
,
REST
.¶ Cf.
, “a roosting
place.”
3.
$
(
"
, 2647), in one of its meanings, signifies “to unloose” (
,
“down,”
$
, “to loose”), “unyoke,” as of horses, etc., hence intransitively, “to take up
one’s quarters, to lodge,” Luke 9:12; 19:7,
RV
, “to lodge” (
KJV
, “to be a guest”). See
COME
,
Note
(7) (come to nought),
DESTROY
,
DISSOLVE
,
OVERTHROW
,
THROW
. Cf.
$
, “a guest chamber, inn.”
4.
@
(
&
, 3579), “to receive as a guest” (
@
, “a guest, stranger”), “to
entertain, lodge,” is used in the active voice in Acts 10:23; 28:7,
RV
, “entertained” (
KJV
,
“lodged”); Heb. 13:2, “have entertained”; in the passive voice, Acts 10:6 (lit., “he is
entertained”), 18, 32; 21:16. Its other meaning, “to think strange,” is found in 1 Pet. 4:4,
12. See
ENTERTAIN
,
STRANGE
.
B. Noun.
@
(
&
, 3578), akin to A, No. 4, denotes (a) “hospitality, entertainment,”
Philem. 22; (b) by metonymy, “a place of entertainment, a lodging-place,” Acts 28:23
(some put Philem. 22 under this section).¶
For
LOFT,
Acts 20:9
, See
STORY
LOINS
$
(
A "
, 3751) is used (a) in the natural sense in Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6; (b) as
“the seat of generative power,” Heb. 7:5, 10; metaphorically in Acts 2:30; (c)
metaphorically, (1) of girding the “loins” in readiness for active service for the Lord,
Luke 12:35; (2) the same, with truth, Eph. 6:14, i.e., bracing up oneself so as to maintain
perfect sincerity and reality as the counteractive in Christian character against hypocrisy
and falsehood; (3) of girding the “loins” of the mind, 1 Pet. 1:13,
RV
, “girding,”
suggestive of the alertness necessary for sobriety and for setting one’s hope perfectly on
“the grace to be brought … at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (the present participle,
“girding,” is introductory to the rest of the verse).¶
LONG (Adjective and Adverb)
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
$
, 3117) is used of “long prayers” (Matt. 23:14, in some mss.),
Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47. It denotes “far” in Luke 15:13; 19:12. See
FAR
.¶
2.
(
,
, 2425), “sufficient, much, long,” is used with
, “time,” in
Luke 8:27; in 20:9 and 23:8 (
KJV
, “season”) the plural is used, lit., “long times”; Acts
8:11; 14:3. See
ABLE
(ABILITY), C, No. 2,
MANY
,
MUCH
.
3.
$
(
"
, 4183), “much,” is used with
, “time,” in Matt. 25:19; John
5:6; in Acts 27:21, with
,
KJV
, “long abstinence,”
RV
, “long without food.” See
COMMON
,
Note
(1).
4.
$
(
, 5118), “so long,” is used with
in John 14:9 and Heb.
4:7.