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Acts 1:22,
KJV
,
“to become,” is translated “be ordained” (
RV
, “become”). (8) In
Rom. 7:10,
KJV
, “
” represents no word in the original (see
RV
).
ORDER (Noun and Verb)
A. Nouns.
1.
@
(
1
, 5010), “an arranging, arrangement, order” (akin to
, “to arrange,
draw up in order”), is used in Luke 1:8 of the fixed succession of the course of the
priests; of due “order,” in contrast to confusion, in the gatherings of a local church, 1 Cor.
14:40; of the general condition of such, Col. 2:5 (some give it a military significance
here); of the divinely appointed character or nature of a priesthood, of Melchizedek, as
foreshadowing that of Christ, Heb. 5:6, 10; 6:20; 7:11 (where also the character of the
Aaronic priesthood is set in contrast); 7:17 (in some mss, v. 21).¶
2.
(
1
, 5001), a more concrete form of No. 1, signifying “that which has
been arranged in order,” was especially a military term, denoting “a company”; it is used
metaphorically in 1 Cor. 15:23 of the various classes of those who have part in the first
resurrection.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
1
, 392), “to arrange in order” ( , “up,” and the middle
voice of
, “to arrange”), is used in Luke 1:1,
KJV
, “to set forth in order” (
RV
, “to
draw up”); the probable meaning is to bring together and so arrange details in “order.”¶
2.
(
1
, 1299), “to appoint, arrange, charge, give orders to,” is used, in
the middle voice, in Acts 24:23, “gave order” (
RV
); 1 Cor. 11:34, “will I set in order”; in
the active voice, in 1 Cor. 16:1, “I gave order” (
RV
). See
COMMAND
, No. 1.
3.
(
# $
, 1930), “to set in order” ( “upon,”
, “through,
intensive,” and
, “straight”), is used in Titus 1:5, in the sense of setting right again
what was defective, a commission to Titus, not to add to what the apostle himself had
done, but to restore what had fallen into disorder since the apostle had labored in Crete;
this is suggested by the .¶
C. Adverb.
@
(
, 2517) is translated “in order” in Luke 1:3; Acts 11:4,
RV
(
KJV
,
“by order); Acts 18:23. See
AFTERWARD
, No. 3.
Note:
In 2 Cor. 11:32,
RV
, the phrase “in order to” (as with the
KJV
, “desirous to”)
represents nothing in the original: the infinitive mood of the verb
expresses the
purpose, viz., “to take.”
ORDERLY
(
, 2887), an adjective signifying “decent, modest, orderly” (akin to
, “order, adornment”), is translated “modest” in 1 Tim. 2:9; “orderly” in 3:2,
RV
(
KJV
, “of good behavior”). See
MODEST
.¶
Note:
For
, in Acts 21:24, “thou walkest orderly,” see
WALK
.
ORDINANCE
A. Nouns.