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3.
(
1$
, 5485), “grace,” is rendered, “bounty” in 1 Cor. 16:3,
RV
, (
KJV
,
“liberality”), by metonymy for a material gift. See
BENEFIT
, No. 3.
4.
(
2 $
, 100), lit. “fatness” (from
, “thick, well-grown”), is used
of a monetary gift, in 2 Cor. 8:20,
KJV
, “abundance,”
RV
, “bounty.”¶
BOW, BOWED (Verb)
1.
(
1
, 2578), “to bend,” is used especially of bending the knees in
religious veneration, Rom. 11:4; 14:11; Eph. 3:14; Phil. 2:10.¶
2.
$
(
1
, 4781) signifies “to bend completely together, to bend
down by compulsory force,” Rom. 11:10.¶
3.
$ $
(
"
, 4794), “to bow together” (
$
, “together with,”
$
, “to
bow”), is said, in Luke 13:11, of the woman crippled with a physical infirmity.¶
4.
(
&
, 2827), “to incline, to bow down,” is used of the women who in their
fright “bowed” their faces to the earth at the Lord’s empty tomb, Luke 24:5; of the act of
the Lord on the cross immediately before giving up His Spirit. What is indicated in the
statement “He bowed His head,” is not the helpless dropping of the head after death, but
the deliberate putting of His head into a position of rest, John 19:30. The verb is deeply
significant here. The Lord reversed the natural order. The same verb is used in His
statement in Matt. 8:20 and Luke 9:58, “the Son of Man hath not where to lay His head.”
It is used, too, of the decline of day, Luke 9:12; 24:29; of turning enemies to flight, Heb.
11:34. See
LAY
,
SPENT
. No. 7,
TURN
,
WEAR
.¶
5.
(
&
, 5087), “to put, or place,” is said of the soldiers who mockingly
bowed their knees to Christ, Mark 15:19. See
APPOINT
.
Note:
For
$
, “to bow the knee,” Matt. 27:29, see
KNEEL
.
BOW (Noun)
@
(
, 5115), “a bow,” is used in Rev. 6:2. Cf. Hab. 3:8-9. The instrument is
frequently mentioned in the Sept., especially in the Psalms.¶
BOWELS
(
1
, 4698), always in the plural, properly denotes “the physical
organs of the intestines,” and is once used in this respect, Acts 1:18 (for the use by
Greeks and Hebrews, see
AFFECTION
, No. 2). The
RV
substitutes the following for the
word “bowels”: “affections,” 2 Cor. 6:12; “affection,” 2 Cor. 7:15; “tender mercies,”
Phil. 1:8; 2:1; “a heart (of compassion),” Col. 3:12; “heart,” Philem. 12, 20; “hearts,”
Philem. 7; “compassion,” 1 John 3:17. The word is rendered “tender” in the
KJV
and
RV
of Luke 1:78, in connection with the word mercy. See
AFFECTION
, No. 2,
COMPASSION
, A,
No. 2 and B, No 2.¶
BOWL
(
1
, 5357) (Eng., “phial”) denotes “a bowl”; so the
RV
, for
KJV
, “vial,” in
Rev. 5:8; 15:7; 16:1-4, 8, 10, 12, 17; 17:1; 21:9; the word is suggestive of rapidity in the
emptying of the contents. While the seals (ch. 6) give a general view of the events of the
last “week” or “hebdomad,” in the vision given to Daniel, Dan. 9:23-27, the “trumpets”
refer to the judgments which, in a more or less extended period, are destined to fall