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1.
$
(
# "
, 1451), “near, nigh,” is used (a) of place, e.g., Luke 19:11, “nigh”;
John 3:23; 11:54, “near”; 6:19, 23, “nigh”; metaphorically in Rom. 10:8; Eph. 2:13, 17,
“nigh”; (b) of time, e.g., Matt. 24:32-33, “nigh”; so Luke 21:30-31; as a preposition, Heb.
6:8, “nigh unto (a curse),” and 8:13, “nigh unto (vanishing away).” See
HAND
(at),
NIGH
,
READY
.
2.
$
(
# " $
, 1452), the comparative degree of No. 1, and the neuter of
the adjective
$
, used adverbially, occurs in Rom. 13:11.¶
3.
(
&
, 4139), “near, close by, neighboring” (the neuter of the adjective
, used as an adverb), occurs in John 4:5. See
NEIGHBOR
.
B. Adjective.
(
, 316), “necessary,” is used, in a secondary sense, of persons
connected by bonds of nature or friendship, with the meaning “intimate,” in Acts 10:24,
“(his) near (friends)”; it is found in this sense in the papyri. See
NECESSARY
,
NEEDFUL
.
C. Verbs.
1.
(
# &
, 1448), transitively, “to bring near” (not in NT; in the Sept., e.g.,
Gen. 48:10; Isa. 5:8); intransitively, “to draw near,” e.g., Matt. 21:34; Luke 18:40; 19:41,
RV
, “draw nigh;” see
APPROACH
, A.
2.
(
$ !$
, 4334), “to come to, go to,” is translated “drew near”
in Acts 7:31 and Heb. 10:22. See
COME
, No. 10.
3.
(
$ 1
, 4317) is used (a) transitively, “to bring,” Acts 16:20; 1 Pet.
3:18; (b) intransitively, “to draw near,” in the latter sense in Acts 27:27.¶
NECESSARY
1.
(
, 316), “necessary” (from
, “necessity”; see below),
is so rendered in Acts 13:46; 1 Cor. 12:22; 2 Cor. 9:5; Phil. 2:25; Titus 3:14; Heb. 8:3,
RV
(
KJV
, “of necessity”); for Acts 10:24, “near friends,” see
NEAR
, B.¶
2.
(
)
, 318), “a necessity” (see No. 1), is rendered “(it was) necessary”
in Heb. 9:23, lit., “it was a necessity.” See
DISTRESS
, A, No. 1.
3.
(
# 1
, 1876), an adjective akin to the preceding, with used
intensively, found only in the neuter form, is used as an adverb signifying “of necessity”
and translated as an adjective in Acts 15:28, “necessary,” lit., “(things) of necessity.”¶
Note:
For the
KJV
of Acts 28:10 see
NEED
, A, No. 1.
NECESSITY (-TIES)
1.
(
)
, 318) signifies (a) “a necessity,” what must needs be (see
NEEDS
),
translated “necessity” (in some mss. in Luke 23:17) in 1 Cor. 7:37; 9:16; 2 Cor. 9:7 (with
“out of”); Philem. 14 (with
, “according to”); Heb. 7:12; 9:16; (b) “distress, pain,”
translated “necessities” in 2 Cor. 6:4; 12:10. See
DISTRESS
, No. 1, and the synonymous
words there, and
NEEDS
,
NEEDFUL
(also
CONSTRAIN
,
Note
).
2.
(
$ &
, 5532), “a need,” and almost always so translated, is used in the
plural in Acts 20:34, “necessities”; Rom. 12:13,
RV
(
KJV
, “necessity”); in Phil. 4:16,
KJV
,
“necessity,”
RV
, “need.” See
NEED
,
NEEDFUL
.