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Chron. 24:8, 10, used of the “box” appointed by King Joash for offerings for the repair of
the Temple.¶
2.
(
1
, 905), from
, “to cast,” “a money-box or purse,” is
found in Luke’s gospel, four times, 10:4; 12:33 (
KJV
, “bag”); 22:35-36. See
PURSE
.¶
: &
#
, “a girdle or belt,” also served as “a purse for money,” Matt. 10:9; Mark
6:8. See
GIRDLE
.
BAGGAGE
$
(
1
, 643), “to furnish with things necessary”; in the middle
voice, “to furnish for oneself”; it was used of equipping baggage animals for a journey; in
Acts 21:15,
RV
, it is translated “we took up our baggage” (
KJV
, “we took up our
carriages”). The form is the 1st aorist participle, and lit. means “having made ready (the
things that were necessary for the journey).Ӧ
Note:
Some mss. have the verb
$
, which has the same meaning.
BALANCE
$
(
, 2218), “a yoke,” also has the meaning of “a pair of scales,” Rev. 6:5.
So the Sept. of Lev. 19:36; Isa. 40:12 See
YOKE
.¶
BAND
1.
(
$
, 4686), primarily “anything round,” and so “whatever might be
wrapped round a thing, a twisted rope,” came to mean “a body of men at arms,” and was
the equivalent of the Roman
$ $
. It was also used for a larger body of men, a
cohort, about 600 infantry, commanded by a tribune. It is confined to its military sense.
See, e.g., Matt. 27:27, and corresponding passages.
2.
(
, 1199), “a band, fetter, anything for tying” (from
, “to bind,
fasten with chains, etc.”), is sometimes translated “band,” sometimes “bond”; “bands,” in
Luke 8:29; Acts 16:26; 22:30,
KJV
only. In the case of the deaf man who had an
impediment in his speech, whom the Lord took aside, Mark 7:35, the
KJV
says “the string
of his tongue was loosed”; the
RV
, more literally, “the bond of his tongue. See
BOND
,
CHAIN
,
STRING
.
3.
$
(
"
, 4886), an intensive form of No. 2, denoting “that which
binds firmly together,” is used metaphorically of the joints and bands of the mystic body
of Christ, Col. 2:19; otherwise in the following phrases, “the bond of iniquity,” Acts 8:23;
“the bond of peace,” Eph. 4:3; “the bond of perfectness,” Col. 3:14. See
BOND
.¶
4.
$
(
$&
, 2202), “a bond” (connected with
$
, “a yoke”), is found
once, of the rudder band of a ship, Acts 27:40.¶
BANDED
$
(
!
, 4160,
!
, 4963), Acts 23:12, of the Jews who “banded
together” with the intention of killing Paul, consists of the verb
, “to make,” and the
noun
$
, primarily “a twisting up together, a binding together”; then, “a secret
combination, a conspiracy.” Accordingly it might be translated “made a conspiracy.” The
noun is used elsewhere in 19:40. See
CONCOURSE
.¶