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testify” in Acts 20:26,
RV
(
KJV
, “I take … to record”); 26:22,
RV
, in the best texts [see
No. 1 (e)]; Gal. 5:3; Eph. 4:17; 1 Thess. 2:11, in the best texts [see No. 1 (g)].¶
3.
$
$
(
$ $!
, 4828) denotes “to bear witness with” (
$
), Rom.
2:15; 8:16; 9:1.¶
4.
$
$
(
$ $!
, 4901) denotes “to join in bearing witness with
others,” Heb. 2:4.¶
5.
$
(
$ $!
, 2649) denotes “to witness against” (
), Matt.
26:62; 27:13; Mark 14:60 (in some mss., 15:4, for
, “to accuse,”
RV
).¶
6.
$
$
(
$ $!
, 5576), “to bear false witness” (
$
,
“false”), occurs in Matt. 19:18; Mark 10:19; 14:56, 57; Luke 18:20; in some texts, Rom.
13:9.¶
C. Adjective.
$
(
1$ $
, 267) denotes “without witness” ( , negative, and
$
),
Acts 14:17.¶
WOE
$
(
' &
, 3759), an interjection, is used (a) in denunciation, Matt. 11:21; 18:7
(twice); eight times in ch. 23; 24:19; 26:24; Mark 13:17; 14:21; Luke 6:24, 25 (twice),
26; 10:13; six times in ch. 11; 17:1; 21:23; 22:22; 1 Cor. 9:16; Jude 11; Rev. 8:13
(thrice); 12:12; as a noun, Rev. 9:12 (twice); 11:14 (twice); (b) in grief, “alas,” Rev.
18:10, 16, 19 (twice in each).¶
WOLF
$
(
"
, 3074) occurs in Matt. 10:16; Luke 10:3; John 10:12 (twice);
metaphorically, Matt. 7:15; Acts 20:29.¶
WOMAN
1.
$
(
)
, 1135), for which see also
WIFE
, is used of a “woman” unmarried or
married, e.g., Matt. 11:11; 14:21; Luke 4:26, of a “widow”; Rom. 7:2; in the vocative
case, used in addressing a “woman,” it is a term not of reproof or severity, but of
endearment or respect, Matt. 15:28; John 2:4, where the Lord’s words to His mother at
the wedding in Cana, are neither rebuff nor rebuke. The question is, lit., “What to Me and
to thee?” and the word “woman,” the term of endearment, follows this. The meaning is
“There is no obligation on Me or you, but love will supply the need.” She confides in
Him, He responds to her faith. There was lovingkindness in both hearts. His next words
about “His hour” suit this; they were not unfamiliar to her. Cana is in the path to Calvary;
Calvary was not yet, but it made the beginning of signs possible. See also 4:21; 19:26.
In Gal. 4:4 the phrase “born of a woman” is in accordance with the subject there, viz.,
the real humanity of the Lord Jesus; this the words attest. They declare the method of His
incarnation and “suggest the means whereby that humanity was made free from the taint
of sin consequent upon the Fall, viz., that He was not born through the natural process of
ordinary generation, but was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit … To have
written ‘born of a virgin’ would have carried the argument in a wrong direction … Since
that man is born of woman is a universal fact, the statement would be superfluous if the
Lord Jesus were no more than man” (
:
5
by Hogg and Vine, pp. 184f.).