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REWARD (Noun and Verb)
A. Noun.
(
, 3408), primarily “wages, hire,” and then, generally, “reward,” (a)
received in this life, Matt. 5:46; 6:2, 5, 16; Rom. 4:4; 1 Cor. 9:17, 18; of evil “rewards,”
Acts 1:18; see
ALSO HIRE
; (b) to be received hereafter, Matt. 5:12; 10:41 (twice), 42;
Mark 9:41; Luke 6:23, 35; 1 Cor. 3:8, 14; 2 John 8; Rev. 11:18; 22:12. See
WAGES
.
Notes:
(1) In Luke 23:41,
@
, “worthy, befitting,” used in the plur., is rendered
“the due reward,” lit., “things worthy.” (2) For
, rendered “reward” in Col.
3:24,
KJV
, see
RECOMPENSE
. (3) For
$
, “to rob of a reward,” Col. 2:18, see
BEGUILE
, Note, and
ROB
.
B. Verb.
(
&
, 591), “to give back,” is nowhere translated “to reward” in the
RV
;
KJV
, Matt. 6:4, 6, 18 (see
RECOMPENSE
, B, No. 2); Matt. 16:27; 2 Tim. 4:14; Rev.
18:6 (see
RENDER
). REWARDER
(
&
, 3406), “one who pays
wages” (
, “wages,”
, “back,”
, “to give”), is used by metonymy in Heb.
11:6, of God, as the “Rewarder” of those who “seek after Him” (
RV
).¶ Cf.
, “recompence.”
RICH, RICHES, RICHLY, RICH MAN
A. Adjective.
$
(
"
, 4145), akin to B, C, No. 1, “rich, wealthy,” is used (I) literally,
(a) adjectivally (with a noun expressed separately) in Matt. 27:57; Luke 12:16; 14:12;
16:1, 19; (without a noun), 18:23; 19:2; (b) as a noun, singular, a “rich” man (the noun
not being expressed), Matt. 19:23, 24; Mark 10:25; 12:41; Luke 16:21, 22; 18:25; Jas.
1:10, 11, “the rich,” “the rich (man)”; plural, Mark 12:41, lit., “rich (ones)”; Luke 6:24
(ditto); 21:1; 1 Tim. 6:17, “(them that are) rich,” lit., “(the) rich”; Jas. 2:6,
RV
, “the rich”;
5:1,
RV
, “ye rich”; Rev. 6:15 and 13:16,
RV
, “the rich”; (II), metaphorically, of God, Eph.
2:4 (“in mercy”); of Christ, 2 Cor. 8:9; of believers, Jas. 2:5,
RV
, “(
) rich (in faith)”;
Rev. 2:9, of spiritual “enrichment” generally; 3:17, of a false sense of “enrichment.”¶
B. Verbs.
1.
$
(
!
, 4147), “to be rich,” in the aorist or point tense, “to become
rich,” is used (a) literally, Luke 1:53, “the rich,” present participle, lit., “(ones or those)
being rich”; 1 Tim. 6:9, 18; Rev. 18:3, 15, 19 (all three in the aorist tense); (b)
metaphorically, of Christ, Rom. 10:12 (the passage stresses the fact that Christ is Lord;
see v. 9, and the
RV
); of the “enrichment” of believers through His poverty, 2 Cor. 8:9
(the aorist tense expressing completeness, with permanent results); so in Rev. 3:18, where
the spiritual “enrichment” is conditional upon righteousness of life and conduct (see
GOLD
, No. 2); of a false sense of “enrichment,” 1 Cor. 4:8 (aorist),
RV
, “ye are become
rich” (
KJV
, “ye are rich”); Rev. 3:17 (perfect tense,
RV
, “I … have gotten riches,”
KJV
, “I
am … increased with goods”), see
GOODS
,
Note
(3); of not being “rich” toward God,
Luke 12:21.¶