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19.
(
1
, 2975), “to obtain by lot,” is translated “received” in Acts
1:17.
RV
(
KJV
, “had obtained”). See
LOT
.
Notes:
(1) In Mark 2:2,
KJV
,
is translated “there was (no) room to receive”
[
RV
, “there was (no longer) room (for)].” (2) In Rev. 13:16,
KJV
,
is translated “to
receive” (marg., “to give them”),
RV
, “(that) there be given (them).” (3) In 2 Cor. 7:9,
KJV
,
, “to suffer loss” (
RV
), is translated “ye might receive damage.” (4) In Luke
7:22,
RV
,
, “to recover sight,” is translated “receive their sight” (
KJV
, “see”). (5)
For “received (
RV
, ‘hath taken’) tithes,” Heb. 7:6, see
TITHE
. (6) For
, in the passive
voice, 2 Cor. 4:1,
KJV
, “having received mercy” (
RV
, “obtained”), see
MERCY
. (7) For
, in 1 Pet. 1:18,
KJV
, “
2
by tradition from your fathers,” see
HANDED DOWN
. (8) In the
KJV
of Matt. 13:19, 20, 22, 23,
, “to sow seed,” is
translated “received seed”; see
SOW
.
B. Nouns
1.
or
(
, 3028), “a receiving” (akin to
, A, No. 1), is used
in Phil. 4:15.¶ In the Sept., Prov. 15:27, 29.¶
2.
< =
(
1
, 354), “a taking up” ( , “up,” and No. 1), is used in
Luke 9:51 with reference to Christ’s ascension; “that He should be received up” is, lit.,
“of the receiving up (of Him).”¶
3.
< =
(
1
, 3336), “a participation, taking, receiving,” is used in
1 Tim. 4:3, in connection with food, “to be received,” lit., “with a view to (
)
reception.Ӧ
4.
< =
(
$
, 4356),
, “to,” and No. 1, is used in Rom. 11:15, of
the restoration of Israel.¶
RECKON, RECKONING
1.
(
&
, 3049) is properly used (a) of “numerical calculation,” e.g.,
Luke 22:37; (b) metaphorically, “by a reckoning of characteristics or reasons, to take into
account,” Rom. 2:26, “shall … be reckoned,”
RV
(
KJV
, “counted”), of “reckoning”
uncircumcision for circumcision by God’s estimate in contrast to that of the Jew
regarding his own condition (v. 3); in 4:3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 22, 23, 24, of “reckoning” faith for
righteousness, or “reckoning” righteousness to persons, in all of which the
RV
uses the
verb “to reckon” instead of the
KJV
“to count or to impute”; in v. 4 the subject is treated
by way of contrast between grace and debt, which latter involves the “reckoning” of a
reward for works; what is owed as a debt cannot be “reckoned” as a favor, but the faith of
Abraham and his spiritual children sets them outside the category of those who seek to be
justified by self-effort, and,
2
2
, the latter are excluded from the grace of
righteousness bestowed on the sole condition of faith; so in Gal. 3:6 (
RV
, “was reckoned,”
KJV
, “was accounted”); since Abraham, like all the natural descendants of Adam, was a
sinner, he was destitute of righteousness in the sight of God; if, then, his relationship with
God was to be rectified (i.e., if he was to be justified before God), the rectification could
not be brought about by works of merit on his part; in Jas. 2:23,
RV
, “reckoned,” the