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2.
(
#
&
, 1557), vengeance,” is used with the verb
, “to make,”
i.e., to avenge, in Luke 18:7-8; Acts 7:24; twice it is used in statements that “vengeance”
belongs to God, Rom. 12:19; Heb. 10:30. In 2 Thess. 1:8 it is said of the act of divine
justice which will be meted out to those who know not God and obey not the gospel,
when the Lord comes in flaming fire at His second advent. In the divine exercise of
judgment there is no element of vindictiveness, nothing by way of taking revenge. In
Luke 21:22, it is used of the “days of vengeance” upon the Jewish people; in 1 Pet. 2:14,
of civil governors as those who are sent of God “for vengeance on evildoers” (
KJV
,
“punishment”); in 2 Cor. 7:11, of the “self-avenging” of believers, in their godly sorrow
for wrong doing,
RV
, “avenging,” for
KJV
, revenge. See
PUNISHMENT
,
VENGEANCE
.¶
AVOID
1.
(
#
&
, 1578), “to turn away from, to turn aside,” lit., “to bend out of”
( , “out,”
, “to bend”), is used in Rom. 3:12, of the sinful condition of mankind,
KJV
, “gone out of the way,”
RV
, “turned aside”; in Rom. 16:17, of turning away from
those who cause offenses and occasions of stumbling (
KJV
, “avoid”); in 1 Pet. 3:11 of
turning away from evil (
KJV
, “eschew”). See
ESCHEW
,
WAY
.¶
2.
(
#
$!
, 1624), lit., “to turn or twist out,” is used in the passive voice in
Heb. 12:13, “that which is lame be not turned out of the way” (or rather, “put out of
joint”); in the sense of the middle voice (though passive in form) of turning aside, or
turning away from, 2 Tim. 4:4 (
KJV
, “shall be turned unto fables,”
RV
, “shall turn aside”);
in 1 Tim. 1:6, of those who, having swerved from the faith, have turned aside unto vain
talking; in 5:15, of those who have turned aside after Satan; in 6:20,
RV
, of “turning away
from (
KJV
, ‘avoiding’) profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is
falsely so called.” See
TURN
. In the Sept., Amos 5:8.¶
3.
(
$ !
, 3868), lit., “to ask aside” (
, “aside,”
, “to
ask”), signifies (a) “to beg of (or from) another,” Mark 15:6, in the most authentic mss.;
(b) “to deprecate,” (1) “to entreat (that) not,” Heb. 12:19; (2) “to refuse, decline, avoid,”
1 Tim. 4:7; 5:11; 2 Tim. 2:23; Titus 3:10 (see No. 4 for v. 9); Heb. 12:25; (c) “to beg off,
ask to be excused,” Luke 14:18-19 (some would put Heb. 12:25 here). See
EXCUSE
,
INTREAT
,
REFUSE
,
REJECT
.¶
4.
(
$ B
, 4026), in the active voice, means “to stand around” ( ,
“around,”
, “to stand”), John 11:42; Acts 25:7; in the middle voice, “to turn
oneself about,” for the purpose of avoiding something, “to avoid, shun,” said of profane
babblings, 2 Tim. 2:16; of foolish questions, genealogies, strife, etc., Titus 3:9 (
KJV
,
“avoid”). See
SHUN
,
STAND
.¶
5.
(
!
, 4724), “to place,” sometimes signifies, in the middle voice, “to take
care against a thing, to avoid,” 2 Cor. 8:20; in 2 Thess. 3:6, “of withdrawing from a
person.” See
WITHDRAW
.¶
For
AWAIT
(
KJV
of
Acts 9:24
;
20:3
,
19
;
23:30
) see
PLOT
AWAKE