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A. Adjectives.
1.
@
(
/
, 514), “of weight, worth, worthy,” is said of persons and their deeds:
(a) in a good sense, e.g., Matt. 10:10, 11, 13 (twice), 37 (twice), 38; 22:8; Luke 7:4; 10:7;
15:19, 21; John 1:27; Acts 13:25; 1 Tim. 5:18; 6:1; Heb. 11:38; Rev. 3:4; 4:11; 5:2, 4, 9,
12; (b) in a bad sense, Luke 12:48; 23:15; Acts 23:29; 25:11, 25; 26:31; Rom. 1:32; Rev.
16:6. See
MEET
,
REWARD
.
2.
(
,
, 2425), “sufficient,” is translated “worthy” in this sense in Matt.
3:11 (marg., “sufficient”); so 8:8; Mark 1:7; Luke 3:16; 7:6. See
ABILITY
, C, No. 2, etc.
3.
(
+
, 1777), “held in, bound by,” is translated “worthy (of death)” in
Matt. 26:66 and Mark 14:64,
RV
(marg., “liable to”;
KJV
, “guilty”). See
DANGER
.
Notes:
(1) In Jas. 2:7,
KJV
,
, “good, fair,” is translated “worthy” (
RV
,
“honorable”). (2) For the
KJV
of Eph. 4:1; Col. 1:10; 1 Thess. 2:12, see C, below.
B. Verbs.
1.
@
(
, 515), “to think or count worthy,” is used (1) of the estimation
formed by God (a) favorably, 2 Thess. 1:11, “may count (you) worthy (of your calling),”
suggestive of grace (it does not say “may make you worthy”); Heb. 3:3, “of more glory,”
of Christ in comparison with Moses; (b) unfavorably, 10:29, “of how much sorer
punishment”; (2) by a centurion (negatively) concerning himself, Luke 7:7; (3) by a
church, regarding its elders, 1 Tim. 5:17, where “honor” stands probably for
“honorarium,” i.e., “material support.” See also
DESIRE
, B, No. 1 (Acts 28:22),
THINK
(Acts 15:38).¶
2.
@
(
, 2661), a strengthened form of No. 1, occurs in Luke 20:35;
21:36, in some texts; Acts 5:41; 2 Thess. 1:5.¶ See
ACCOUNT
, A, No. 5.
C. Adverb.
@
(
&
, 516), “worthily,” so translated in the
RV
[with one exception, see (c)],
for
KJV
, “worthy” and other renderings, (a) “worthily of God,” 1 Thess. 2:12, of the
Christian walk as it should be; 3 John 6,
RV
, of assisting servants of God in a way which
reflects God’s character and thoughts; (b) “worthily of the Lord,” Col. 1:10; of the calling
of believers, Eph. 4:1, in regard to their “walk” or manner of life; (c) “worthy of the
gospel of Christ,” Phil. 1:27, of a manner of life in accordance with what the gospel
declares; (d) “worthily of the saints,”
RV
, of receiving a fellow believer, Rom. 16:2, in
such a manner as befits those who bear the name of “saints.”¶ Deissmann (
0
- $
,
pp. 248ff.) shows from various inscriptions that the phrase “worthily of the god” was
very popular at Pergamum.
For
WORTHY DEEDS,
Acts 24:2
,
KJV
, see
CORRECTION
WOT
Note:
This form, the 1st person singular and the plural of the present tense of an
AngloSaxon verb
(
, “to see” or “to know” (for the past tense cf. WIST), is a
rendering of (1)
, “to know,” in Acts 3:17; 7:40; Rom. 11:2 (see
KNOW
, No. 2); (2)
, “to come to know,” in Phil. 1:22 (see
KNOW
, No. 8).
WOULD