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figure without materially altering the meaning, and receives no justification from the
language and traditions of Palestine.”
NEGLECT, NEGLIGENT
1.
(
!
, 272) denotes (a) “to be careless, not to care” ( , negative,
,
“it is a care”; from
, “to care, to be a care”), Matt. 22:5, “made light of”; (b) “to be
careless of, neglect,” 1 Tim. 4:14; Heb. 2:3; 8:9, “I regarded (them) not.” See
LIGHT OF
(make),
REGARD
.¶ (In the Sept., Jer. 4:17; 38:32.¶)
2.
(
$ $!
, 3865), primarily, “to examine side by side, compare”
(
, “beside,”
, “to look at”), hence, “to overlook, to neglect,” is used in Acts
6:1, of the “neglect” of widows in the daily ministration in Jerusalem.¶
Note:
In 2 Pet. 1:12, some mss. have No. 1, hence the
KJV
, “I will not be negligent;”
the
RV
follows those which have the future tense of
, “to be ready.” See
READY
. For
“neglect to hear” see
HEAR
, No. 7.
For
NEGLECTING
(
Col. 2:23
) see
SEVERITY
NEIGHBOR
1.
(
&
, 1069), lit., “one living in the same land,” denotes “a neighbor,”
always plural in the NT, Luke 14:12; 15:6, 9; John 9:5.¶
2.
(
$&
, 4040), an adjective, lit., “dwelling around” ( , “around,”
, “a dwelling”), is used as a noun in Luke 1:58, “neighbors”.¶
3.
(
&
, 4139), the neuter of the adjective
(from
, “near”), is
used as an adverb accompanied by the article, lit., “the (one) near”; hence, one’s
“neighbor”; see refs. below.
This and Nos. 1 and 2 have a wider range of meaning than that of the Eng. word
“neighbor.” There were no farmhouses scattered over the agricultural areas of Palestine;
the populations, gathered in villages, went to and fro to their toil. Hence domestic life
was touched at every point by a wide circle of neighborhood. The terms for neighbor
were therefore of a very comprehensive scope. This may be seen from the chief
characteristics of the privileges and duties of neighborhood as set forth in Scripture, (a)
its helpfulness, e.g., Prov. 27:10; Luke 10:36; (b) its intimacy, e.g., Luke 15:6, 9 (see No.
1); Heb. 8:11; (c) its sincerity and sanctity, e.g., Ex. 22:7, 10; Prov. 3:29; 14:21; Rom.
13:10; 15:2; Eph. 4:25; Jas. 4:12. The NT quotes and expands the command in Lev.
19:18, “to love one’s neighbor as oneself”; see, e.g., Matt. 5:43; 19:19; 22:39; Mark
12:31, 33; Luke 10:27; Gal. 5:14; Jas. 2:8. See also Acts 7:27.
Note:
In Rom. 13:8, for
, “another,”
RV
has “his neighbor.”
NEIGHBORHOOD
Note:
This, in Acts 28:7,
RV
, translates a phrase consisting of the dative plural of the
article followed by
, “around,” governed by the preposition , “in,” “in the
neighborhood of (that place),”
KJV
, “in the (same quarters),” lit., “in the (parts) around
(that place).”