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helps supplied by God for overcoming the temptations of the Devil, Eph. 6:11, 13.
Among the Greeks the
was the complete equipment used by heavily armed
infantry.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
3 &
, 3695), “to arm oneself,” is used in 1 Pet. 4:1, in an exhortation
“to arm” ourselves with the same mind as that of Christ in regard to His sufferings.¶
2.
(
&
, 2528) is an intensive form, “to furnish fuliy with arms,”
, “down,” intensive,
, “a weapon,” Luke 11:21, lit., “a strong man fully
armed.”¶ In the Sept., Jer. 46:9.¶
ARMY
1.
$
(
$1
, 4753) denotes (a) “an army” of any size, large or small,
Matt. 22:7; Rev. 9:16; 19:14, 19 (twice); (b) “a company of soldiers,” such as Herod’s
bodyguard, Luke 23:11 (
RV
, “soldiers”), or the soldiers of a garrison, Acts 23:10, 27 (
RV
,
“the soldiers,” for
KJV
, “an army”). See
SOLDIER
,
WAR
.¶
2.
(
$
, 4760), from
, “a military host,”
, “a plain,”
strictly denotes “an army encamped, a camp”; in Luke 21:20, of the soldiers which were
to be encamped about Jerusalem in fulfillment of the Lord’s prophecy concerning the
destruction of the city; the phrase might be translated “by camps” (or encampments).¶
3.
(
$
)
, 3925), lit., “a casting in among, an insertion” (
,
“among,”
, “to throw”), in the Macedonian dialect, was a military term. In the NT it
denotes the distribution of troops in army formation, “armies,” Heb. 11:34; a camp, as of
the Israelites, Exod. 19:17; 29:14; 32:17; hence, in Heb. 13:11, 13, of Jerusalem, since
the city was to the Jews what the camp in the wilderness had been to the Israelites; in
Rev. 20:9, the “armies” or camp of the saints, at the close of the Millennium.
It also denoted a castle or barracks, Acts 21:34, 37; 22:24; 23:10, 16, 32.¶
For
AROUND
see
Note
†
, p. 1
For
ARRAY
see
CLOTHE
, No. 6,
PUT
ARRIVE
1.
(
1
, 2658), “to come to, arrive at”, is used (a) literally, of locality,
Acts 16:1, “came to”; so 18:19, 24; 20:15 (“came”); 21:7; 25:13; 27:12 (
KJV
, “attain to,”
RV
, “reach”); 28:13; (b) metaphorically, of attainment, Acts 26:7, “attain”; so Eph. 4:13;
Phil. 3:11. In 1 Cor. 10:11 (“upon whom the ends of the ages are come,”
RV
), the
metaphor is apparently that of an inheritance as coming down or descending to an heir,
the “ends” ( being the spiritual revenues (cf. Matt. 17:25, revenues derived from
taxes, and Rom. 13:7, where the singular,
, “custom,” is used); the inheritance
metaphor is again seen in 1 Cor. 14:36, of the coming (or descending) of the Word of
God to the Corinthians. See
ATTAIN
.
2.
(
!
, 2668), denotes “to sail down” (
, “down,”
, “to sail”),
i.e., from the high sea to the shore, Luke 8:26.¶