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subject is viewed from a different standpoint (see under
JUSTIFICATION
, B, last four
paragraphs); for other instances of “reckoning” in this respect see Rom. 9:8,
RV
, “are
reckoned” (
KJV
, “are counted”); 2 Cor. 5:19,
RV
, “(not) reckoning (trespasses),”
KJV
,
“imputing”; (c) “to consider, calculate,” translated “to reckon” in Rom. 6:11; 8:36; 2 Cor.
10:11,
RV
, “let (such a one) reckon (this)”; (d) “to suppose, judge, deem,” translated “to
reckon” in Rom. 2:3, “reckonest thou (this),”
RV
(
KJV
, “thinkest”); 3:28 (
KJV
, “we
conclude”); 8:18; 2 Cor. 11:5 (
KJV
, “I suppose); see
ACCOUNT
, A, No. 4,
CONSIDER
, No.
6,
COUNT
, No. 3,
SUPPOSE
; (e) “to purpose, decide,” 2 Cor. 10:2,
RV
, “count” (
KJV
,
“think); see
COUNT
, No. 3.
2.
(
!
, 3004), “to say, speak,” also has the meaning “to gather, reckon,
account,” used in this sense in Heb. 7:11,
RV
, “be reckoned” (
KJV
, “be called”). See
ASK
,
A, No. 6.
3.
$
(
&$
, 4868), “to take up together” (
$
, “with,”
, “to take”), is
used with the noun
, “an account,” signifying “to settle accounts,” Matt. 18:23,
RV
,
“make a reckoning” (KV, “take account”); v. 24,
KJV
and
RV
, “to reckon” (
being
understood); 25:19,
RV
, “maketh a reckoning” (
KJV
, “reckoneth”). This phrase occurs not
infrequently in the papyri in the sense of settling accounts (see Deissmann,
6
7
*
,
, 118).¶ In the Sept. the verb occurs in its literal sense in Exod. 23:5,
“thou shalt help to raise” (lit., “raise with”).¶
RECLINE
(
, 345), lit., and in classical usage, “to be laid up, laid,” denotes,
in the NT, “to recline at table”; it is translated “reclining” in John 13:23,
RV
(
KJV
,
“leaning”); cf.
in v. 25,
RV
, “leaning back.” See also v. 12, marg. See
LEAN
,
SIT
,
TABLE
(
AT THE
).
For
RECOMMEND,
Acts 14:26
;
15:40
,
KJV
, see
COMMEND
, No. 2
RECOMPENCE, RECOMPENSE
A. Nouns.
1.
(
, 468), akin to
, “to recompense” (see
below), lit., “a giving back in return” ( , “in return,”
, back,
, “to give”), a
requital, recompence, is used (a) in a favorable sense, Luke 14:12; (b) in an unfavorable
sense, Rom. 11:9, indicating that the present condition of the Jewish nation is the
retributive effect of their transgressions, on account of which that which was designed as
a blessing (“their table”) has become a means of judgment.¶
2.
(
, 469), derived, like No. 1, from
, is
rendered “recompense” in Col. 3:24,
RV
(
KJV
, “reward”).¶
3.
(
&
, 489), “a reward, requital” ( , “in return,”
,
“wages, hire”), is used (a) in a good sense, 2 Cor. 6:13; (b) in a bad sense, Rom. 1:27.¶ 4.
(
&
, 3405), “a payment of wages” (from
, see No. 3, and
, B, No. 2), “a recompence,” is used (a) of reward, Heb. 10:35; 11:26; (b) of
punishment, Heb. 2:2.¶ Cf.
, “a rewarder,” Heb.11:6.¶