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(
'
&
, 2107), “good pleasure,” occurs in the genitive case in Luke 2:14,
lit., “(men) of good pleasure” (so
RV
marg.),
RV
, “(men) in whom He is well pleased” (the
genitive is objective); the
KJV
, “good will (toward men),” follows the inferior texts which
have the nominative. See
DESIRE
,
PLEASURE
,
SEEM
,
WELLPLEASING
,
WILL
.
B. Verb.
$
(
'
!
, 2106), “to be well pleased”: see
PLEASE
, A, No. 3,
WILLING
, B,
No. 3.
WELL-PLEASING
A. Adjective.
$
(
'1$
, 2101) is used in Rom. 12:1, 2, translated “acceptable (
RV
marg., “well-pleasing”); in the following the
RV
has “well-pleasing,” Rom. 14:18; 2 Cor.
5:9; Eph. 5:10; in Phil. 4:18 and Col. 3:20 (
RV
and
KJV
); in Titus 2:9,
RV
, “well-pleasing”
(
KJV
, “please … well”); in Heb. 13:21,
RV
and
KJV
. See
ACCEPTABLE
.¶
B. Verb.
$
(
' $ !
, 2100), akin to A, is rendered “to be well-pleasing” in Heb.
11:5, 6,
RV
(
KJV
, “please”); in Heb. 13:16, “is well pleased.”¶
C. Noun.
$
(
'
&
, 2107), lit., “good pleasure,” is rendered “well-pleasing” in Matt.
11:26 and Luke 10:21. See
DESIRE
,
PLEASURE
,
SEEM
,
WELL PLEASED
,
WILL
.
For
WENT
see
GO
WEST
$
(
)
, 1424), “the quarter of the sun-setting” (
$
, “a sinking, setting”;
$
, “to sink”), hence, “the west,” occurs in Matt. 8:11; 24:27; Luke 12:54 (some regard
this as the sunset); 13:29; Rev. 21:13.¶
For
WET,
Luke 7:38
,
44
,
RV
, see
WASH
, No. 7
WHALE
(
, 2785) denotes “a huge fish, a sea monster,” Matt. 12:40.¶ In the Sept.,
Gen. 1:21; Job 3:8; 9:13; 26:12; Jonah 1:17 (twice); 2:1, 10.¶
WHAT
Notes:
(1) Most frequently this is a translation of some form of the relative pronoun
or the interrogative
!
(2) Other words are (a)
, “of what kind,” e.g., 2 Cor.
10:11,
RV
(
KJV
, “such as”); 1 Thess. 1:5, “what manner of men”; 2 Tim. 3:11 (twice), lit.,
“what sorts of things,” “what sorts of persecutions”; (b)
, “what sort of,” e.g., Matt.
21:23, 24, 27; 24:42, 43; Luke 5:19; 6:32-34; 20:2, 8; 24:19; John 12:33, “what manner
of”; so in 18:32; 21:19; Rom. 3:27; 1 Cor. 15:35; in Jas. 4:14, “what”; 1 Pet. 2:20 and
Rev. 3:3 (ditto); 1 Pet. 1:11, “what manner of”; (c)
, “what sort of,” 1 Cor. 3:13;
“what manner of,” 1 Thess. 1:9; (d)
, “how great,” Mark 6:30 (twice),
RV
,
“whatsoever”; Acts 15:12; Rom. 3:19, “what things soever”; Jude 10 (1st part), “what
soever things,”
RV
; (2nd part) “what”; (e)
, “how great, how much,” 2 Cor. 7:11,
“what (earnest care),”
RV
(
here stands for the repeated words in the Eng. versions,