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3.
(
$ &
, 3927), “sojourning in a strange place,” is used as a
noun, denoting “a sojourner, an exile,” 1 Pet. 1:1,
RV
, “sojourners” (
KJV
, “strangers”).
See
PILGRIM
.¶
C. Noun.
(
$
&
, 3940), “a sojourning” (akin to A and B, Nos. 1), occurs in Acts
13:17, rendered “they sojourned,”
RV
,
KJV
, “dwelt as strangers,” lit., “in the sojourning”;
in 1 Pet. 1:17, “sojourning.”¶
SOLDIER
A. Nouns.
1.
(
$ 0
, 4757), “a soldier,” is used (a) in the natural sense, e.g.,
Matt. 8:9; 27:27; 28:12; Mark 15:16; Luke 7:8; 23:36; six times in John; thirteen times in
Acts; not again in the NT; (b) metaphorically of one who endures hardship in the cause of
Christ, 2 Tim. 2:3.
2.
$
(
$1
, 4753), “an army,” is used to denote “a company of
soldiers” in Acts 23:10; in v. 27,
RV
, “the soldiers,”
KJV
, “an army”; in Luke 23:11
(plural),
RV
, “soldiers,”
KJV
, “men of war.” See
ARMY
.
3.
$
(
$ 0
, 4961), “a fellow-soldier” (
$
, “with,” and No. 1), is
used metaphorically in Phil. 2:25 and Philem. 2, of fellowship in Christian service.¶
B. Verb.
$
(
$ "
, 4754), always in the middle voice in the NT, is used (a)
literally of “serving as a soldier,” Luke 3:14, “soldiers” (
RV
, marg., “soldiers on service,”
present participle); 1 Cor. 9:7,
RV
, “(what) soldier … serveth,”
KJV
, “(who) goeth a
warfare”; 2 Tim. 2:4,
RV
, “soldier on service,”
KJV
, “man that warreth,” lit., “serving as a
soldier”; (b) metaphorically, of “spiritual conflict”: see
WAR
.
Notes:
(1) For
$
, Mark 6:27,
RV
, “soldier of his guard,” see
GUARD
.¶ (2) In
2 Tim. 2:4
is rendered “hath chosen (him) to be a soldier,”
KJV
(
RV
, “enrolled
(him) as a soldier”).¶
SOLID
(
$
, 4731), for which see
FIRM
, No. 2, has the meaning “solid” in Heb.
5:12, 14, of food (
KJV
, “strong”). As “solid” food requires more powerful digestive
organs than are possessed by a babe, so a fuller knowledge of Christ (especially here with
reference to His Melchizedek priesthood) required that exercise of spiritual intelligence
which is derived from the practical appropriation of what had already been received.
For
SOLITARY,
Mark 1:35
,
KJV
, see
DESERT
, B
SOME, SOMEONE, SOMETHING, SOMEWHAT
Notes:
(1) Various forms of the article and certain pronouns, followed by the particles
and denote “some.” These are not enumerated here. (2) The indefinite pronoun
in its singular or plural forms, frequently means “some,” “some one” (translated “some
man,” in the
KJV
, e.g., of Acts 8:31; 1 Cor. 15:35), or “somebody,” Luke 8:46; the neuter
plural denotes “some things” in 2 Pet. 3:16; the singular denotes “something,” e.g., Luke
11:54; John 13:29 (2nd part); Acts 3:5; 23:18; Gal. 6:3, where the meaning is “anything,”
as in 2:6, “somewhat.” It is translated “somewhat,” in the more indefinite sense, in Luke