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imply the entrance upon such responsibility, but the fulfillment of it. It is not a matter of
assuming a position, but of the discharge of the duties. The word is found elsewhere in
Heb. 12:15, “looking carefully,”
RV
. See
LOOK
.¶ Cf.
in 1 Tim. 3:1 (see
BISHOP
,
No. 2).
OVERTAKE
1.
(
1
, 2638), “to lay hold of,” has the significance of
“overtaking,” metaphorically, in John 12:35 (
RV
, “overtake,”
KJV
, “come upon”) and 1
Thess. 5:4. See
APPREHEND
, No. 1.
2.
(
$
1
, 4301), “to anticipate” ( , “before,”
, “to
take”), is used of the act of Mary, in Mark 14:8 [see
COME
,
Note
(2)]; of forestalling the
less favored at a social meal, 1 Cor. 11:21; of being “overtaken” in any trespass, Gal. 6:1,
where the meaning is not that of detecting a person in the act, but of his being caught by
the trespass, through his being off his guard (see 5:21 and contrast the premeditated
practice of evil in 5:26). The modern Greek version is “even if a man, through lack of
circumspection, should fall into any sin.” See
TAKE
.¶
OVERTHROW (Noun and Verb)
A. Noun.
(
$ )
, 2692), lit., “a turning down” (
, “down,”
, “a
turning”; Eng., “catastrophe”), is used (a) literally, 2 Pet. 2:6, (b) metaphorically, 2 Tim.
2:14 “subverting,” i.e., the “overthrowing” of faith.¶ Cf.
, “a pulling down,” 2
Cor. 10:4, 8; 13:10.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
$!
, 2690), akin to A, lit. and primarily, “to turn down” or
“turn over,” as, e.g., the soil, denotes to “overturn, overthrow,” Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15;
in Acts 15:16, passive voice, “ruins,” lit., “the overthrown (things) of it” (some mss. have
, “to dig down”). See
RUIN
.¶
2.
(
$!
, 390) is found in some mss. in John 2:15 (see No. 3). See
ABIDE
, No. 8.
3.
(
$!
, 396), lit., “to turn up or over” ( , “up,”
, “to turn”),
“to upset,” is used (a) literally, in the most authentic mss., in John 2:15 (see No. 2); (b)
metaphorically, in 2 Tim. 2:18, “overthrow (the faith of some);” in Titus 1:11,
RV
,
“overthrow (whole homes),”
KJV
, “subvert … ,” i.e., households. Moulton and Milligan
(
F !
) give an apt illustration from a 2nd cent. papyrus, of the complete upsetting of a
family by the riotous conduct of a member.¶
4.
$
(
"
, 2647), lit., “to loosen down,” signifies “to overthrow” in Acts
5:38,
RV
, “it will be overthrown” (
KJV
, “it will come to nought”); Rom. 14:20,
RV
,
“overthrow” (
KJV
, “destroy”). See
DESTROY
.
5.
$
(
1
, 2638), primarily, “to strew” or “spread over”
(
, “down,”
$
, or
$
, “to spread”), then, “to overthrow,” has this
meaning in 1 Cor. 10:5, “they were overthrown.”¶ In the Sept., Num. 14:16; Job 12:23.¶