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This is combined with other words, forming compound adjectives as follows:
1.
(
, 5377), “a lover of God,” 2 Tim. 3:4.¶
2.
@
(
, 5382), “loving strangers” (
@
, “hospitality”), translated
“a lover of hospitality” in Titus 1:8,
KJV
(
RV
, “given to h.”); elsewhere, in 1 Tim. 3:2; 1
Pet. 4:9. See
HOSPITALITY
.¶
3.
(
1
, 5358), “loving that which is good” (
), Titus 1:8,
“a lover of good,”
RV
.¶
Note:
The negative
is found in 2 Tim. 3:3, “no lovers of good.”¶
4.
$
(
1$ $
, 5366), “loving money” (
$
, “silver”), translated
“lovers of money” in Luke 16:14; 2 Tim. 3:2,
RV
(
KJV
, “covetous”). See
COVETOUS
.¶
5.
$
(
&
, 5367), “loving oneself,” 2 Tim. 3:2,
RV
.¶
6.
(
)
, 5369), “loving pleasure” (
, “pleasure”), 2 Tim. 3:4,
“lovers of pleasure.”¶
Note:
For “loving warmly,” Rom. 12:10, see
AFFECTION
, B, No. 2.¶ For
$
,
“no lover of money,” 1 Tim. 3:3,
RV
, and Heb. 13:5,
RV
, see
COVETOUS
.¶
LOW (to bring, to make), LOW (estate, degree)
A. Verb.
(
, 5013), “to bring low, to humble,” is translated “shall be brought
low” in Luke 3:5. See
HUMBLE
.
B. Adjective.
(
, 5011) denotes “of low degree or estate,” Rom. 12:16, “things that
are lowly,”
RV
(
KJV
, “men of low estate”). See
BASE
,
DEGREE
,
ESTATE
,
HUMBLE
,
LOWLY
.
C. Noun.
(
&
, 5014), “abasement, humiliation, low estate,” is translated
“low estate” in Luke 1:48; in Jas. 1:10, “that he is made low,” lit., “in his abasement.”
See
HUMILIATION
.
LOWER (Adjective, and Verb, to make), LOWEST
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
0 $
, 2737), the comparative degree of
, “beneath,” is used in
Eph. 4:9, of Christ’s descent into “the lower parts of the earth”; two of the various
interpretations of this phrase are (1) that the earth is in view in contrast to heaven, (2) that
the region is that of hades, the Sheol of the OT. Inasmuch as the passage is describing the
effects not merely of the Incarnation but of the death and resurrection of Christ, the
second interpretation is to be accepted; cf., e.g., Ps. 16:10; 63:9; where the Sept. has the
superlative; 139:15; Acts 2:31. Moreover, as Westcott says, it is most unlikely that the
phrase would be used to describe the earth. The word
(plural of
), “parts,”
would have no force in such a meaning.¶
2.
(
+
, 2078), “last, utmost, lowest,” is rendered “lowest” in Luke
14:9, 10, of the “lowest” place at a meal. See
LAST
.
B. Verb.