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3.
(
+
, 1730), “a plain token, a proof” (akin to
$
, “to point
out, prove”), is used in 2 Thess. 1:5 “a manifest token,” said of the patient endurance and
faith of the persecuted saints at Thessalonica, affording proof to themselves of their new
life, and a guarantee of the vindication by God of both Himself and them (see No. 4,
Note
).¶
4.
@
(
+
, 1732), “a pointing out, showing forth,” is rendered “evident
token” in Phil. 1:28. See
DECLARE
, B,
PROOF
. Cf.
@
, 1 Cor. 2:4.
Note:
No. 4 refers to the act or process of proving, No. 3 to the thing proved. While
the two passages, Phil. 1:28 and 2 Thess. 1:5, contain similar ideas,
indicates
the “token” as acknowledged by those referred to;
@
points more especially to the
inherent veracity of the “token.”
TOLERABLE
(
$
, 414) (akin to
, in the middle voice, “to endure,” see
ENDURE
, No. 5) is used in its comparative form,
, in Matt. 10:15; 11:22, 24;
Luke 10:12, 14; some texts have it in Mark 6:11.¶
For
TOLL
see
CUSTOM
(
TOLL
)
TOMB
1.
(
, 3419) is almost invariably rendered “tomb” or “tombs” in
the
RV
, never “grave,” sometimes “sepulchre”; in the
KJV
, “tomb” in Matt. 8:28; 27:60;
Mark 5:2; 6:29. See
GRAVE
No. 1,
SEPULCHRE
.
2.
(
, 3418), rendered “tombs” in Mark 5:3, 5; Luke 8:27: see
GRAVE
,
No. 2,
SEPULCHRE
.
3.
(
1
, 5028), akin to
, “to bury,” is translated “tombs” in Matt.
23:29; elsewhere “sepulchre.” See
SEPULCHRE
.
TOMORROW
$
(
E$
, 839) is used either without the article, e.g., Matt. 6:30; 1 Cor. 15:32;
Jas. 4:13; or with the article in the feminine form, to agree with
, “day,” e.g.,
Matt. 6:34; Acts 4:3,
RV
, “the morrow” (
KJV
, “next day”); Jas. 4:14; preceded by ,
“on,” e.g., Luke 10:35; Acts 4:5.
TONGUE (-S)
A. Nouns.
1.
(
, 1100) is used of (1) the “tongues … like as of fire” which
appeared at Pentecost; (2) “the tongue,” as an organ of speech, e.g., Mark 7:33; Rom.
3:13; 14:11; 1 Cor. 14:9; Phil. 2:11; Jas. 1:26; 3:5, 6, 8; 1 Pet. 3:10; 1 John 3:18; Rev.
16:10; (3) (a) “a language,” coupled with
$
, “a tribe,”
, “a people,”
, “a
nation,” seven times in the Apocalypse, 5:9; 7:9; 10:11; 11:9; 13:7; 14:6; 17:15; (b) “the
supernatural gift of speaking in another language without its having been learnt”; in Acts
2:4-13 the circumstances are recorded from the viewpoint of the hearers; to those in
whose language the utterances were made it appeared as a supernatural phenomenon; to