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therefore “proconsuls” (b) those who were ex-pretors or “proconsuls” of other senatorial
provinces (a pretor being virtually the same as a consul). To the former belonged the
“proconsuls” at Ephesus, Acts 19:38 (
KJV
, “deputies”); to the latter, Sergius Paulus in
Cyprus, Acts 13:7, 8, 12, and Gallio at Corinth, 18:12. In the NT times Egypt was
governed by a prefect. Provinces in which a standing army was kept were governed by an
imperial legate (e.g., Quirinius in Syria, Luke 2:2): see
GOVERNOR
, A, No 1.¶
: & *
$
, “to be proconsul,” is in some texts in Acts 18:12.
PROFANE (Adjective and Verb)
A. Adjective.
(
!
, 952), primarily, “permitted to be trodden, accessible” (from
,
“to go,” whence
, “a threshold”), hence, “unhallowed, profane” (opposite to
,
“sacred”), is used of (a) persons, 1 Tim. 1:9; Heb. 12:16; (b) things, 1 Tim. 4:7; 6:20; 2
Tim. 2:16. “The natural antagonism between the profane and the holy or divine grew into
a moral antagonism.… Accordingly
is that which lacks all relationship or affinity
to God” (Cremer, who compares
, “common,” in the sense of ritual uncleanness).¶
B. Verb.
(
, 953), primarily, “to cross the threshold” (akin to A, which see),
hence, “to profane, pollute,” occurs in Matt. 12:5 and Acts 24:6 (the latter as in 21:28, 29:
cf.
DEFILE
A, No. 1,
PARTITION
).¶
PROFESS, PROFESSION
A. Verbs.
1.
(
# !
, 1861), “to announce, proclaim, profess,” is rendered “to
profess” in 1 Tim. 2:10, of godliness, and 6:21, of “the knowledge … falsely so called.”
See
PROMISE
.
2.
(
3
!
, 3670) is translated “to profess” in Matt. 7:23 and Titus
1:16; in 1 Tim. 6:12,
KJV
(
RV
, “confess”). See
CONFESS
.
3.
(
1
, 5335), “to affirm, assert”: see
AFFIRM
, No. 3.
B. Noun.
(
3
&
, 3671), akin to A, No. 2, “confession,” is translated
“profession” and “professed” in the
KJV
only. See
CONFESS
.
PROFIT (Noun and Verb), PROFITABLE, PROFITING
A. Nouns.
1.
(
8 !
, 5622) primarily denotes “assistance”; then, “advantage,
benefit,”; profit,” in Rom. 3:1. See
ADVANTAGE
, No. 3.
2.
(
7
, 3786), “profit” in Jas. 2:14, 16: see
ADVANTAGE
, No. 2.
3.
$
(
!$
, 4851d), the neuter form of the present participle of
$
(see B, No. 1), is used as a noun with the article in Heb. 12:10, “(for our)
d Derivatives or roots of other words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with with a “d”
following the number (for instance,
, a derivative of
5
, is 1096d).