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2.
(
, $ &
, 2405), or
, denotes “a priests’s office,” Luke 1:9; Heb.
7:5,
RV
, “priest’s office” (
KJV
“office of the priesthood”).¶
B. Verb.
$
(
, $ "
, 2407), “to officiate as a priest” (akin to A, No. 2), is translated
“he executed the priest’s office” in Luke 1:8. The word is frequent in inscriptions.¶
Notes:
(1) In Rom. 11:13,
KJV
,
, “a ministry,” is translated “office” (
RV
,
“ministry”). (2) In Acts 1:20,
RV
,
, “an overseership,” is translated “office”
(marg., “overseership”;
KJV
, “bishopric”). (3) In 1 Tim. 3:1, the word “office,” in the
phrase “the office of a bishop,” has nothing to represent it in the original; the
RV
marg.
gives “overseer” for “bishop,” and the phrase lit. is “overseership”; so in vv. 10, 13,
where the
KJV
has “use (and ‘used’) the office of a deacon,” the
RV
rightly omits “office,”
and translates the verb
, “to serve,” “let them serve as deacons” and “(they that)
have served (well) as deacons.”
OFFICER
1.
$
(
% $!
, 5257), for the original of which see
MINISTER
, A, No. 3, is
translated “officer,” with the following applications, (a) to a magistrate’s attendant, Matt.
5:25; (b) to officers of the synagogue, or officers or bailiffs of the Sanhedrin, Matt. 26:58;
Mark 14:54, 65; John 7:32, 45-46; 18:3, 12, 18, 22; 19:6; Acts 5:22, 26. See
MINISTER
,
SERVANT
.
2.
(
$1
$
, 4233), lit., “one who does,” or “accomplishes” (akin to
,
“to do”), was used in Athens of one who exacts payment, a collector (the word is
frequently used in the papyri of a public accountant); hence, in general, a court “officer,”
an attendant in a court of justice (so Deissmann); the word is used in Luke 12:58
(twice).¶ In the Sept., Isa. 3:12.¶
OFFSCOURING
(
$&
, 4067), “that which is wiped off” (akin to
, “to wipe
off all round”;
, “around,”
, “to wipe”), hence, “offscouring,” is used
metaphorically in 1 Cor. 4:13. This and the synonymous word
, “refuse,
rubbish,” “were used especially of condemned criminals of the lowest classes, who were
sacrificed as expiatory offerings … because of their degraded life” (Lightfoot).
OFFSPRING
1.
(
!
, 1081), akin to
, “to beget,” denotes “the offspring of
men and animals,” Matt. 3:7; 12:34; 23:33; Luke 3:7,
RV
, “offspring” (
KJV
, “generation”).
See
FRUIT
.¶
2.
(
!
, 1085), “a race, family” (akin to
, “to become”), denotes “an
offspring,” Acts 17:28, 29; Rev. 22:16. See
GENERATION
,
KIND
.
OFT, OFTEN, OFTENER, OFTENTIMES, OFT-TIMES
A. Adverbs.