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$
(
$ $
, 4211) denotes “a seller of purple fabrics” (from
$
, and
, “to sell”), Acts 16:14.¶
PURPOSE (Noun and Verb)
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
"
, 1013), “a purpose or will” (akin to
$
, “to will, wish,
purpose”), “a deliberate intention,” occurs in Acts 27:43, “purpose”; Rom. 9:19, “will”; 1
Pet. 4:3, in the best mss. (some have
),
KJV
, “will,”
RV
, “desire.” See
WILL
.¶
2.
(
$
, 4286), “a setting forth” (used of the “showbread”), “a
purpose” (akin to B, No. 3), is used (a) of the “purposes of God,” Rom. 8:28; 9:11; Eph.
1:11; 3:11; 2 Tim. 1:9; (b) of “human purposes,” as to things material, Acts 27:13;
spiritual, Acts 11:23; 2 Tim. 3:10. See
SHEWBREAD
.
3.
(
0
, 1106), “an opinion, purpose, judgment,” is used in the genitive
case with
, “to come to be,” in Acts 20:3, “he purposed,”
KJV
(
RV
, “he
determined”), lit., “he came to be of purpose.”
Notes:
The following phrases are translated with the word “purpose”: (a)
$
$
, “for this same (or very) purpose,” lit., “unto this same (thing),” Rom. 9:17; Eph.
6:22; Col. 4:8; (b)
$
, “for this purpose,” Acts 26:16,
KJV
(
RV
, “to this end”), lit.,
“unto this”; so 1 John 3:8; (c)
, “to what purpose,” Matt. 26:8, lit., “unto what”;
Mark 14:4,
RV
, “to what purpose” (
KJV
, “why”).
B. Verbs.
1.
$ $
(
"
, 1011), “to take counsel, resolve,” always in the middle voice in
the NT, “to take counsel with oneself,” to determine with oneself, is translated “I
purpose” in 2 Cor. 1:17 (twice). See
COUNSEL
, B, No. 1.
2.
(
&
, 5087), “to put, place,” is used in the middle voice in Acts 19:21,
“purposed,” in the sense of resolving.
3.
(
$ &
, 4388), “to set before, set forth” ( , “before,” and No. 2,
akin to A, No. 2), is used in Rom. 3:25, “set forth,”
RV
marg., “purposed,”
KJV
marg.,
“foreordained,” middle voice, which lays stress upon the personal interest which God had
in so doing; either meaning, “to set forth” or “to purpose,” would convey a scriptural
view, but the context bears out the former as being intended here; in Rom. 1:13, “I
purposed”; Eph. 1:9, “He purposed (in Him),”
RV
. See
SET
.¶
4.
(
!
, 4160), “to make,” is translated “He purposed” in Eph. 3:11 (for the
noun
, in the same verse, see A, No. 2). See
DO
, No. 1.
5.
(
$ $!
, 4255), “to bring forth or forward,” or, in the middle voice,
“to take by choice, prefer, purpose,” is translated “He hath purposed” in 2 Cor. 9:7,
RV
(
KJV
, “he purposed”).¶
For
PURSE
see
BAG
, No. 2 and
Note
PURSUE