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while the other three slept. The night was divided into four watches of three hours each;
there would be one “quaternion” for each watch by day and by night.¶ Cf. the “guard” in
Matt. 27:65 and 28:11.
QUEEN
(
&
, 938), the feminine of
$
, “a king,” is used (a) of the
“Queen of Sheba,” Matt. 12:42; Luke 11:31; of “Candace,” Acts 8:27; (b)
metaphorically, of “Babylon,” Rev. 18:7.¶
QUENCH, UNQUENCHABLE
A. Verb.
$
(
!
, 4570) is used (a) of “quenching” fire or things on fire, Matt.
12:20, quoted from Isa. 42:3, figurative of the condition of the feeble; Heb. 11:34; in the
passive voice, Matt. 25:8, of torches (see
LAMP
),
RV
, “are going out,” lit., “are being
quenched”; of the retributive doom hereafter of sin unrepented of and unremitted in this
life, Mark 9:48 (in some mss. in vv. 44, 46); (b) metaphorically, of “quenching” the fire-
tipped darts of the evil one, Eph. 6:16; of “quenching” the Spirit, by hindering His
operations in oral testimony in the church gatherings of believers, 1 Thess. 5:19. “The
peace, order, and edification of the saints were evidence of the ministry of the Spirit
among them, 1 Cor. 14:26, 32, 33, 40, but if, through ignorance of His ways, or through
failure to recognize, or refusal to submit to, them, or through impatience with the
ignorance or self-will of others, the Spirit were quenched, these happy results would be
absent. For there was always the danger that the impulses of the flesh might usurp the
place of the energy of the Spirit in the assembly, and the endeavor to restrain this evil by
natural means would have the effect of hindering His ministry also. Apparently then, this
injunction was intended to warn believers against the substitution of a mechanical order
for the restraints of the Spirit.”*¶ Cf. Song of Sol. 8:7.
B. Adjective.
(
/
, 762), “not quenched” ( , negative, and A), is used of the doom of
persons described figuratively as “chaff,” Matt. 3:12 and Luke 3:17, “unquenchable”; of
the fire of Gehenna (see
HELL
), Mark 9:43,
RV
, “unquenchable fire” (in some mss. v.
45).¶ In the Sept., Job 20:26.¶
QUESTION (Noun and Verb), QUESTIONING
A. Nouns.
1.
(
)
, 2214), primarily “a seeking, search” (
, “to seek”), for which
see
DISPUTATION
, is used in John 3:25; Acts 25:20,
RV
, “(being perplexed) how to inquire
(concerning these things),”
KJV
“(because I doubted of such manner) of questions,” lit.,
“being perplexed as to the inquiry (or discussion) concerning these things”; in 1 Tim. 1:4
(in some mss.); 6:4; 2 Tim. 2:23; Titus 3:9. See
INQUIRY
.
2.
(
)
, 2213), synonymous with No. 1, but, generally speaking,
suggesting in a more concrete form the subject of an inquiry, occurs in Acts 15:2; 18:15;
23:29; 25:19; 26:3.¶
* From
Notes on Thessalonians,
by Hogg and Vine, p. 196.