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Mark 5:42,
RV
, the verb
, “to be,” with the phrase “of twelve years” is translated
“was … old” (
KJV
, “was
7
of”).
OLDNESS
(
, 3821), from
(see A, No. 2, above), occurs in Rom. 7:6,
of “the letter,” i.e., “the law,” with its rules of conduct, mere outward conformity to
which has yielded place in the believer’s service to a response to the inward operation of
the Holy Spirit. The word is contrasted with
, “newness.”¶
OLD WIVES’
(
$ 0
, 1126), an adjective, signifying “old-womanish” (from
$
, “an
old woman”), is said of fables, in 1 Tim. 4:7.¶
OLIVES (OLIVE BERRIES), OLIVE TREE
1.
(
# &
, 1636) denotes (a) “an olive tree,” Rom. 11:17, 24; Rev. 11:4 (plural);
the Mount of Olives was so called from the numerous olive trees there, and indicates the
importance attached to such; the Mount is mentioned in the NT in connection only with
the Lord’s life on earth, Matt. 21:1; 24:3; 26:30; Mark 11:1; 13:3; 14:26; Luke 19:37;
22:39; John 8:1; (b) “an olive,” Jas. 3:12,
RV
(
KJV
, “olive berries”).¶
2.
(
# 0
, 1638), “an olive grove” or “olive garden,” the ending , as in
this class of noun, here indicates “a place set with trees of the kind designated by the
primitive” (Thayer); hence it is applied to the Mount of Olives, Luke 19:29; 21:37; Acts
1:12 (“Olivet”): in the first two of these and in Mark 11:1, some mss. have the form of
the noun as in No. 1.
3.
(
!
, 2565), “the garden olive” (from
, “beauty,” and No.
1), occurs in Rom. 11:24, “a good olive tree.”¶
4.
(
$ !
, 65), an adjective (from
, “growing in the fields,
wild,” and No. 1), denoting “of the wild olive,” is used as a noun in Rom. 11:17, 24, “a
wild olive tree” (
RV
, in the latter Verse).¶
For
OMITTED
(
Matt. 23:23
,
KJV
) see
LEAVE
(undone), No. 1
For
OMNIPOTENT
(
Rev. 19:6
) see
ALMIGHTY
For
ON
see
†
, p. 1
ONCE (at; for all)
1.
@
(
?
, 530) denotes (a) “once, one time,” 2 Cor. 11:25; Heb. 9:7, 26-27;
12:26-27; in the phrase “once and again,” lit., “once and twice,” Phil. 4:16; 1 Thess. 2:18;
(b) “once for all,” of what is of perpetual validity, not requiring repetition, Heb. 6:4; 9:28;
10:2; 1 Pet. 3:18; Jude 3,
RV
, “once for all” (
KJV
, “once”); v. 5 (ditto); in some mss. 1 Pet.
3:20 (so the
KJV
).¶
2.
@
(
# 1
, 2178), a strengthened form of No. 1 ( , “upon”), signifies (a)
“once for all,” Rom. 6:10; Heb. 7:27,
RV
(
KJV
, “once”); 9:12 (ditto); 10:10; (b) “at once,”
1 Cor. 15:6.¶
3.
(
!
, 4218) denotes “once upon a time, formerly, sometime,” e.g., Rom. 7:9;
Gal. 1:23, 1st part,
RV
, “once” (
KJV
, “in times past”); 2nd part,
KJV
and
RV
, “once”; Gal.