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NECK
(
$1
, 5137) is used (a) literally, Matt. 18:6; Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2; of
“embracing,” Luke 15:20; Acts 20:37; (b) metaphorically, in Acts 15:10, of “putting a
yoke upon”: Rom. 16:4, singular in the original, “(laid down their) neck,” indicating the
figurative use of the term rather than the literal. Prisca and Aquila in some way had
risked their lives for the apostle (the phrase is found with this significance in the papyri).¶
NEED, NEEDS, NEEDFUL
A. Nouns.
1.
(
$ &
, 5532) denotes “a need,” in such expressions as “there is a need”; or
“to have need of” something, e.g., Matt. 3:14; 6:8; 9:12,
RV
, “(have no) need,”
KJV
, “need
(not),” the
RV
adheres to the noun form; so in 14:16; Mark 14:63; Luke 5:31; 22:71; Eph.
4:28; 1 Thess. 4:9; in the following, however, both
RV
and
KJV
use the verb form, “to
need” (whereas the original has the verb
, “to have,” with the noun
as the
object, as in the instances just mentioned): Luke 15:7; John 2:25; 13:10; 16:30; 1 Thess.
1:8; 1 John 2:27; Rev. 22:5; in all these the verb “to have” could well have been
expressed in the translation.
In Luke 10:42 it is translated “needful,” where the “one thing” is surely not one dish,
or one person, but is to be explained according to Matt. 6:33 and 16:26. In Eph. 4:29, for
the
KJV
, “(to) the use (of edifying),” the
RV
more accurately has “(for edifying) as the
need may be,” marg., “the building up of the need,” i.e., “to supply that which needed in
each case”; so Westcott, who adds “The need represents a gap in the life which the wise
word ‘builds up,’ fills up solidly and surely.” In Phil. 4:19 the
RV
has “every need of
yours” (
KJV
, “all your need”); in 1 Thess. 4:12,
RV
, “need” (
KJV
, “lack”); in Acts 28:10,
RV
, “(such things) as we needed” (
KJV
, “as were necessary”), lit., “the things for the
needs (plural).” See
BUSINESS
, A, No. 1,
LACK
,
NECESSITY
,
USE
,
WANT
.
2.
(
)
, 318), “a necessity, need,” is translated “it must needs be” in
Matt. 18:7, with the verb “to be” understood (according to the best mss.); in Luke 14:18,
“I must needs” translates the verb
, “to have,” with this noun as the object, lit., “I
have need”; in Rom. 13:5 “(ye) must needs,” lit., “(it is) necessary (to be subject).” See
NECESSARY
, No. 2,
NECESSITY
, No. 1. See also
DISTRESS
.
B. Verbs.
1.
(
$Z
, 5535), “to need, to have need of” (akin to
, “it is necessary,
fitting”), is used in Matt. 6:32; Luke 11:8; 12:30; Rom. 16:2,
RV
, “may have need” (
KJV
,
“hath need”); 2 Cor. 3:1.¶
2. (
, 1163), an impersonal verb, signifying “it is necessary,” is rendered “must
needs” in Mark 13:7; John 4:4; Acts 1:16,
KJV
(
RV
, “it was needful”); 17:3,
KJV
(
RV
, “it
behoved”); (in some mss. in Acts 21:22); 2 Cor. 11:30; 12:1; in Acts 15:5, “it was
needful.”