Basic HTML Version
NUMBER
A. Nouns.
1.
(
$
, 706), number, “a number” (Eng., “arithmetic,” etc.), occurs in
Luke 22:3; John 6:10; Rom. 9:27; elsewhere five times in Acts, ten times in the
Apocalypse.
2.
(
7
, 3793), “a multitude,” is translated “number” in Luke 6:17,
RV
(
KJV
,
“multitude”); in Mark 10:46 and Acts 1:15 the renderings are reversed. See
COMMON
,
COMPANY
,
CROWD MULTITUDE
,
PEOPLE
.
B. Verbs.
1.
(
$ !
, 705), akin to A, is found in Matt. 10:30; Luke 12:7; Rev. 7:9.¶
2.
(
$ !
, 2674), “to number” or “count among” (
, and No.
1), is used in Acts 1:17.¶
3.
(
#
$&
, 1469), “to reckon among” ( , “in,”
, “to judge or
reckon”), is translated “to number … (ourselves) with” in 2 Cor. 10:12 (
RV
marg., “to
judge ourselves among or … with”), of the apostle’s dissociation of himself and his
fellow missionaries from those who commended themselves.
4.
$
(
&
, 4785), “to vote or reckon (one) a place among”
(
$
, “with” or “among,”
, “down,” and
, “to count or vote,” originally with
pebbles,
, “a pebble”), is used of the “numbering” of Matthias with the eleven
apostles, Acts 1:26.¶
Notes:
(1) Some mss. have verse Mk 15:28in Mark 15 (
KJV
), where
, “to
reckon,” is translated “He was numbered.” (2) For
1 Tim. 5:9 (
KJV
, “let … be
taken into the number”), see
TAKE
,
Note
(18). (3) In Mark 5:13 see the italicized words in
RV
. (4) In Heb. 7:23,
RV
, the adjective
, “more, many,” is translated “many in
number” (
KJV
, “many”); in Acts 28:23,
RV
, “a great number” (
KJV
, “many”).
NURSE
(
$
, 5162), translated “nurse” in 1 Thess. 2:7, there denotes a “nursing”
mother, as is clear from the statement “cherisheth her own children”; this is also
confirmed by the word
, “gentle” (in the same verse), which was commonly used of
the kindness of parents towards children. Cf.
, “to bring up” (see
NOURISH
).
For
NURTURE
(
Eph. 6:4
) see
CHASTENING
O
OATH
1.
(
6$
, 3727) is primarily equivalent to
, “a fence, an enclosure, that
which restrains a person”; hence, “an oath.” The Lord’s command in Matt. 5:33 was a