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(
)
, 4107), “a wanderer” (Eng., “planet”), is used metaphorically in
Jude 13, of the evil teachers there mentioned as “wandering (stars).”¶ In the Sept., Hos.
9:17.¶
WANT (Noun and Verb)
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
% !$
, 5304), akin to B, No. 1 (below), occurs in Mark 12:14 and
Phil. 4:11.¶
2.
$
(
> $
, 5305) denotes (more concretely than No. 1) (a) “that which is
lacking” (see
LACK
); (b) “need, poverty, want,” rendered “want” in Luke 21:4 (
KJV
,
“penury”); 2 Cor. 8:14 (twice); 9:12; 11:9 (2nd occurence),
RV
, “want” (
KJV
, “that which
was lacking”).
3.
(
$ &
, 5532) is rendered “want” in Phil. 2:25,
KJV
(
RV
, need). See
BUSINESS
.
B. Verbs.
1.
$
(
% $!
, 5302) signifies “to be in want,” Luke 15:14; 2 Cor. 11:9 (1st
occurrence); Phil. 4:12,
RV
(
KJV
“to suffer need”); in John 2:3,
KJV
, “wanted” (
RV
,
“failed”). See
BEHIND
, B, No. 1.
2.
(
&
, 3007), “to leave,” is rendered “to be wanting” in Titus 1:5 and 3:13,
and in the
KJV
in Jas. 1:4. See
LACK
, C, No. 3.
WANTONNESS, WANTON, WANTONLY
A. Nouns.
1.
(
!
, 766), “lasciviousness, licentiousness,” is rendered
“wantonness” in 2 Pet. 2:18,
KJV
; see
LASCIVIOUSNESS
.
2.
(
$
, 4764), “insolent luxury,” is rendered “wantonness” in Rev. 18:3,
RV
(marg., “luxury”;
KJV
, “delicacies,” not a sufficiently strong rendering).¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
$
1
, 4763), akin to A, No. 2, “to run riot,” is rendered “waxed
wanton” in Rev. 18:7,
RV
, and “lived wantonly” in v. 8. See
DELICATELY
,
Note
(1). The
root of the verb is seen in the Latin
$$
.¶
2.
(
$
1
, 2691), an intensive form of No. 1, “to wax wanton
against,” occurs in 1 Tim. 5:11.¶
WAR (Verb and Noun)
A. Verbs.
1.
(
!
, 4170) (Eng., “polemics”), “to fight, to make war,” is used (a)
literally, Rev. 12:7 (twice),
RV
; 13:4; 17:14; 19:11; (b) metaphorically, Rev. 2:16,
RV
; (C)
hyperbolically, Jas. 4:2. See
FIGHT
, B,
Note
(1).¶
2.
$
(
$ "
, 4754), used in the middle voice, “to make war” (from
, “an encamped army”), is translated “to war” in 2 Cor. 10:3; metaphorically, of
spiritual “conflict,” 1 Tim. 1:18; 2 Tim. 2:3,
KJV
; Jas. 4:1; 1 Pet. 2:11. See
SOLDIER
, B.