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11.
(
!
, 2722), “to hold fast” (
, “down,” intensive,
, “to hold”),
is used of “making” for a place, in Acts 27:40,
RV
, “they made for” (
KJV
, “they made
toward”). See
HOLD
.
12.
(
$
$ &
, 4294), “to render fit” (“fitted”;
, “a joint”)
“beforehand,” is used in 2 Cor. 9:5, “to make up beforehand.”¶
Notes:
(1) In Heb. 9:2,
KJV
,
$
, “to prepare,” is translated “made” (
RV
,
“prepared”). (2) In Eph. 2:15,
KJV
,
, “to create,” is translated “make” (
RV
, “create”).
(3) In Acts 26:16,
KJV
,
, “to determine, choose,” is translated “make” (
RV
,
“appoint”). (4) In Gal. 3:16, KV,
, “to speak,” is translated “were … made” (
RV
,
“were … spoken”). (5) In Luke 14:31,
KJV
,
$
, “to meet with,” in hostile sense, is
rendered in combination with the phrase
, “in war,” “to make war”;
RV
, “to
encounter (in war).” (6) In Rom. 14:19 “the things which make for peace” is, lit., “the
things of peace.” (7) In Acts 22:1 the verb “I make” represents no word in the original,
lit., “hear now my defense unto you.” (8) The Eng. verb “to make” forms with many
other verbs a rendering of single Greek verbs which are given under the respective
headings. (9) For “made,” Luke 19:16,
RV
, see
GAIN
,
Note
(1).
MAKER
$
(
$
, 1217), lit., “one who works for the people” (from
,
“people,”
, “work”; an ancient inscription speaks of the magistrates of Tarsus as
$ &
the word was formerly used thus regarding several towns in Greece; it is
also found used of an artist), came to denote, in general usage, a builder or “maker,” and
is used of God as the “Maker” of the heavenly city, Heb. 11:10. In that passage the first
word of the two,
, denotes “an architect, designer,” the second,
$
, is
the actual Framer, the city is the archetype of the earthly one which God chose for His
earthly people.¶ Cf.
, “creator.”
MALE
or
(
/9:
, 730) is translated “men” in Rom. 1:27 (three times); “man
child” in Rev. 12:5 (v. 13 in some mss.); “male” in Matt. 19:4; Mark 10:6; Luke 2:23;
Gal. 3:28, “(there can be no) male (and female),”
RV
, i.e. sex distinction does not obtain
in Christ; sex is no barrier either to salvation or the development of Christian graces. See
MAN
.¶
MALEFACTOR
1.
$
(
$
, 2557), an adjective, lit., “evil-working” (
, “evil,”
, “work”), is used as a noun, translated “malefactor(-s)” in Luke 23:32, 33, 39, and
in the
RV
in 2 Tim. 2:9 (
KJV
, “evil doer”). See
EVIL
, B,
Note
(1). In the Sept., Prov.
21:15.¶
2.
(
, 2555), an adjective, lit., “doing evil,” is used in 1 Pet. 2:12,
14; 3:16 (in some mss.); 4:15. See
EVIL
, B, No. 5.¶
MALICE, MALICIOUSNESS, MALICIOUS