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(
1
, 4114) denotes “breadth,” Eph. 3:18; Rev. 20:9; 21:16 (twice).¶
For
BROIDED
see
BRAIDED
For
BROKEN
see
BREAK
For
BROKENHEARTED
see
BREAK
, A, No. 5
BROILED
(
A
, 3702), “broiled” (from
, “to cook, roast”), is said of food prepared
by fire, Luke 24:42.¶
BROOD
(
1
, 3555), primarily, “a nest,” denotes “a brood,” Luke 13:34. Some texts
have
in the plural, as Matt. 23:37, “chicken.”¶
BROOK
(
& 9:
, 5493), lit., “winter-flowing” (from
, “winter,” and
, “to flow”), a stream which runs only in winter or when swollen with rains, a
“brook” John 18:1.¶
BROTHER, BRETHREN, BROTHERHOOD, BROTHERLY
(
, 80) denotes “a brother, or near kinsman”; in the plural, “a
community based on identity of origin or life.” It is used of:—
(1) male children of the same parents, Matt, 1:2; 14:3; (2) male descendants of the
same parents, Acts 7:23, 26; Heb. 7:5; (3) male children of the same mother, Matt. 13:55;
1 Cor. 9:5; Gal. 1:19; (4) people of the same nationality, Acts 3:17, 22; Rom. 9:3. With
“men” (
, “male”), prefixed, it is used in addresses only, Acts 2:29, 37, etc.; (5) any
man, a neighbor, Luke 10:29; Matt. 5:22; 7:3; (6) persons united by a common interest,
Matt. 5:47; (7) persons united by a common calling, Rev. 22:9; (8) mankind, Matt. 25:40;
Heb. 2:17; (9) the disciples, and so, by implication, all believers, Matt. 28:10; John 20:17;
(10) believers, apart from sex, Matt. 23:8; Acts 1:15; Rom. 1:13; 1 Thess. 1:4; Rev. 19:10
(the word “sisters” is used of believers, only in 1 Tim. 5:2); (11) believers, with
,
“male,” prefixed, and with “or sister” added, 1 Cor. 7:14 (
RV
), 15; Jas. 2:15, male as
distinct from female, Acts 1:16; 15:7, 13, but not 6:3.* * From
:
by Hogg and Vine, p. 32.
Notes:
(1) Associated words are
, primarily, “a brotherly relation,” and so,
the community possessed of this relation, “a brotherhood,” 1 Pet. 2:17 (see 5:9, marg.).¶;
, (
, “to love,” and
), “fond of one’s brethren,” 1 Pet. 3:8;
“loving as brethren,”
RV
.¶;
, “brotherly love,” Rom. 12:10; 1 Thess. 4:9;
Heb. 13:1; “love of the brethren,” 1 Pet. 1:22 and 2 Pet. 1:7,
RV
.¶;
$
, “false
brethren,” 2 Cor. 11:26; Gal. 2:4.¶
(2) In Luke 6:16 and Acts 1:13, the
RV
has “son,” for
KJV
, “brother.”
(3) In Acts 13:1, for
$
, see
BRING
, B, Note (6).
For
BROUGHT
see
BRING
BROW