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Rev. 1:4; 4-10; 7:15; (b) in metaphorical phrases after verbs of motion, Luke 1:17; 12:9;
Acts 9:15, etc.; signifying “in the mind or soul of persons,” Luke 12:6; Acts 10:31; Rev.
16:19; (c) “in one’s sight or hearing,” Luke 24:43; John 20:30; 1 Tim. 6:12;
metaphorically, Rom. 14:22; especially in Gal. 1:20; 1 Tim. 5:21; 6:13; 2 Tim. 2:14; 4:1;
before, as “having a person present to the mind,” Acts 2:25; Jas. 4:10; “in the judgment
of a person,” Luke 16:15; 24:11,
RV
, “in their sight,” for
KJV
, “to”; Acts 4:19; Rom. 3:20;
12:17; 2 Cor. 8:21; 1 Tim. 2:3; “in the approving sight of God,” Luke 1:75; Acts 7:46;
10:33; 2 Cor. 4:2; 7:12. See
PRESENCE
,
SIGHT OF
(
IN THE
).
10.
(
0
, 2714),
, “against,” with No. 9, signifies “right over
against, opposite”; (a) of place, Jude 24; (b) before God as Judge, Eph. 1:4; Col. 1:22.
See No. 8 (b).¶
B. Verb.
$
(
$ D<
1$
, 4391), “to exist before, or be beforehand,” is found in Luke
23:12, and Acts 8:9, “beforetime.”¶ In the Sept., Job 42:18.¶
BEG, BEGGAR, BEGGARLY
A. Verbs.
1.
(
# !
, 1871), a strengthened form of
, is used in Luke 16:3.¶
2.
(
$ !
, 4319), lit., “to ask besides” (
, “towards,” used
intensively, and
), “to ask earnestly, to importune, continue asking,” is said of the
blind beggar in John 9:8. In Mark 10:46 and Luke 18:35 certain mss. have this verb; the
most authentic have
, “a beggar,” a word used in John 9:8, as well as the verb
(see the
RV
).¶
Note:
“Begged” in Matt. 27:58 and Luke 23:52,
RV
, “asked for,” translates the verb
; see
ASK
.
B. Adjective.
(
, 4434), an adjective describing “one who crouches and cowers,” is
used as a noun, “a beggar” (from
, “to cower down or hide oneself for fear”), Luke
14:13, 21 (“poor”); 16:20, 22; as an adjective, “beggarly” in Gal. 4:9, i.e., poverty-
stricken, powerless to enrich, metaphorically descriptive of the religion of the Jews.
While
is descriptive of a “beggar,” and stresses his “begging,”
stresses his poverty-stricken condition. See
POOR
.
For
BEGAN
see
BEGIN
BEGET, BEAR (of begetting), BORN
A. Verbs.
1.
(
1
, 1080), “to beget,” in the passive voice, “to be born,” is chiefly
used of men “begetting” children, Matt. 1:2-16; more rarely of women “begetting”
children, Luke 1:13, 57, “brought forth” (for “delivered,” in this v., see No. 4); 23:29;
John 16:21, “is delivered of,” and of the child, “is born” (for “is in travail” see No. 4). In
Gal. 4:24, it is used allegorically, to contrast Jews under bondage to the Law, and
spiritual Israel,
KJV
, “gendereth,”
RV
, “bearing children,” to contrast the natural birth of
Ishmael and the supernatural birth of Isaac. In Matt. 1:20 it is used of conception, “that