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used adverbially, is translated “openly”; in 18:28 and 20:20, “publicly.” For the adjective
itself, “public,” see Acts 5:18. See PUBLIC.¶
For OPERATION see WORKING
OPPORTUNITY (lack)
A. Nouns.
1. ($ , 2540), primarily, “a due measure,” is used of “a fixed and definite
period, a time, season,” and is translated “opportunity” in Gal. 6:10 and Heb. 11:15. See
SEASON, TIME, WHILE.
2. $ ( ' $& , 2120), “a fitting time, opportunity” ( $, “well,” and No. 1),
occurs in Matt. 26:16 and Luke 22:6.¶ Cf. $, “seasonable”; see CONVENIENT.
3. ( , 5117), “a place,” is translated “opportunity” in Acts 25:16, RV (KJV,
“licence”). See PLACE, ROOM .
B. Verbs.
1. $ ( ' $! , 2119), “to have time or leisure” (akin to A, No. 2), is
translated “he shall have opportunity” in 1 Cor. 16:12, RV (KJV, “convenient time”). See
LEISURE.
2. ( $!, 170), “to have no opportunity” ( , negative, and ,
“season”), occurs in Phil. 4:10.¶
OPPOSE
1. ( &, 480): see ADVERSARY , B.
2. ( 1, 498) is used in the middle voice in the sense of setting
oneself against ( , “against,” , “to order, set”), “opposing oneself to,” Acts 18:6;
elsewhere rendered by the verb “to resist,” Rom. 13:2; Jas. 4:6; 5:6; 1 Pet. 5:5. See
RESIST.¶
3. ( & , 475) signifies “to place oneself in opposition,
oppose” ( , “against,” , “through,” intensive, , “to place”), 2 Tim. 2:25. The
KJV and RV translate this as a middle voice, “them (KJV, ‘those’) that oppose themselves.”
Field (: ! 7 : ) points out that in the only other known instance of
the verb it is passive. The sense is practically the same if it is rendered “those who are
opposed.Ӧ
OPPOSITIONS
( & , 477), “a contrary position” ( , “against,” , “to place”;
Eng., “antithesis”), occurs in 1 Tim. 6:20.¶
OPPRESS
1. $ $ (" , 2616), “to exercise power over” ( , “down,”
$, “a potentate”: $ “to have power”), “to oppress,” is used, in the passive
voice, in Acts 10:38; in the active, in Jas. 2:6.¶
2. (! , 2669): see DISTRESS, B, No. 4.
For OR see †, p. 1