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resurrection. So the New Birth is, in one sense, the setting aside of all that the believer
was according to the flesh, for it is evident that there must be an entirely new beginning.
Some regard the
, “and,” in John 3:5, as epexegetic, = “even,” in which case the
“water” would be emblematic of the Spirit, as in John 7:38 (cf. 4:10, 14), but not in 1
John 5:8. where the Spirit and the “water” are distinguished. “The water of life,” Rev.
21:6 and 22:1, 17, is emblematic of the maintenance of spiritual life in perpetuity. In Rev.
17:1 “the waters” are symbolic of nations, peoples, etc.
Note:
For
, rendered “waters” in 2 Cor. 11:26, see
RIVER
.
B. Verb.
(
&
, 4222), “to give to drink,” is used (a) naturally in Luke 13:15,
“watering,” with reference to animals; (b) figuratively, with reference to spiritual
ministry to converts, 1 Cor. 3:6-8. See
DRINK
, B, No. 3.
Notes:
(1) For
$
, “to drink water,” 1 Tim. 5:23, see
DRINK
, B, No. 5. (2)
For the adjective
$
, “waterless” (
RV
), “without water,” see
DRY
, No. 2.
WATERPOT
$
(
% $ 1
, 5201) occurs in John 2:6, 7; 4:28.¶
WAVE
1.
$
(
, 2949), from
$
, “to be pregnant, to swell,” is used (a) literally in the
plural, Matt. 8:24; 14:24; Mark 4:37 (Acts 27:41, in some mss.); (b) figuratively, Jude
13.¶
2.
(
1
, 4535) denotes “a tossing,” especially the rolling swell of the sea,
Luke 21:25,
KJV
, “waves” (
RV
, “billows”).¶
3.
$
(
"
, 2830), “a billow,” is translated “wave” in Jas. 1:6,
KJV
(
RV
,
“surge”); in Luke 8:24 it is translated “raging (of the water).” See
RAGE
, B.¶
WAVER, WAVERING
A. Adjective.
(
)
, 186), “without bending” ( , negative,
, “to bend”), occurs in
Heb. 10:23,
KJV
, “without wavering,”
RV
, “that it waver not.”¶
B. Verb.
(
$&
, 1252) is rendered “to waver” in Rom. 4:20,
RV
(
KJV
,
“staggered”); in Jas. 1:6 (twice). See </jump>DOUBT, No. 3</jump>.
WAX
1.
(
$
, 4298), for which see
ADVANCE
, is rendered “to wax” in 2
Tim. 3:13.
2.
(
&
, 1096), “to become,” is translated “waxed” in Luke 13:19,
KJV
(
RV
, “became”); in Heb. 11:34,
KJV
and
RV
, “waxed”: see
COME
, No. 12, etc.
Note:
This verb forms part of the translation of certain tenses of other verbs; see, e.g.,
BOLD
, A, No. 2,
COLD
, C,
CONFIDENT
, B, No. 1,
CORRUPT
, A, No. 2,
GROSS
,
OLD
, D, No.
2,
STRONG
, B, No. 2,
WANTON
, B, Nos. 1 and 2,
WEARY
, No. 2,
WROTH
, No. 1.
WAY