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1.
(
1
, 906), “to throw, hurl, in contrast to striking,” is frequent in the four
gospels and Revelation; elsewhere it is used only in Acts. In Matt. 5:30 some mss. have
this verb (
KJV
, “should be cast”); the most authentic have
“to go away,”
RV
,
“go.” See
ARISE
,
BEAT
,
DUNG
,
LAY
,
POUR
,
PUT
,
SEND
,
STRIKE
,
THROW
,
THRUST
.
2.
(
:&
, 4496) denotes “to throw with a sudden motion, to jerk, cast forth”;
“cast down,” Matt. 15:30 and 27:5; “thrown down,” Luke 4:35; “thrown,” 17:2 (
KJV
,
“cast”); [
in Acts 22:23 (
KJV
, “cast off”), of the “casting” off of clothes (in the
next sentence
No. 1, is used of “casting” dust into the air)]; in 27:19 “cast out,” of
the tackling of a ship, in v. 29 “let go” (
KJV
, “cast”), of anchors; in Matt. 9:36,
“scattered,” said of sheep. See
THROW
,
SCATTER
.¶
3.
(
#
&
, 1601), lit., “to fall out,” is translated “be cast ashore,” in Acts
27:29,
RV
,
KJV
, have fallen upon. See
EFFECT
,
FAIL
,
FALL
,
NOUGHT
.
A number of compound verbs consisting of
or
, with prepositions
prefixed, denote to cast, with a corresponding English preposition. Compounds of
are:
4.
(
1
, 577), “to throw off from, to lay aside, to cast away,” Mark
10:50; Heb. 10:35.¶
: & *
, “casting away” (akin to No. 4), is used of Israel in Rom. 11:15;
elsewhere, Acts 27:22, “loss” (of life).¶
5.
(
#
1
, 1544), “to cast out of, from, forth,” is very frequent in the
gospels and Acts; elsewhere, in Gal. 4:30; 3 John 10; in Jas. 2:25, “sent out”; in Rev.
11:2, “leave out” (marg., “cast without”). See
BRING
, No. 28,
DRIVE
,
EXPEL
,
LEAVE
,
PLUCK
,
PULL
,
PUT
,
SEND
,
TAKE
,
THRUST
.
6.
(
# 1
, 1685), “to cast into,” is used in Luke 12:5.¶
7.
(
# 1
, 1911), “to cast on, or upon,” is used in this sense in Mark 11:7
and 1 Cor. 7:35. See
BEAT
(No. 5),
FALL
, No. 11,
LAY
,
PUT
, No. 8,
STRETCH
.
8.
(
1
, 2598) signifies “to cast down,” 2 Cor. 4:9,
KJV
, “cast
down,”
RV
, “smitten down”; Heb. 6:1, “laying.” See
LAY
.¶ Some mss. have this verb in
Rev. 12:10 (for
).
9.
(
/
, 97 and
/
, 906), “to cast around,” occurs Mark 1:16.¶
10.
(
$ 1
, 4016), “to cast about, or around,” is used in 23 of its 24
occurrences, of putting on garments, clothing, etc.; it is translated “cast about” in Mark
14:51; Acts 12:8, in Luke 19:43, used of “casting” up a bank or palisade against a city
(see
RV
and marg.),
KJV
, “shall cast a trench about thee.” See
CLOTHE
, No. 6,
PUT
.
Compounds of
are:
11.
(
9:&
, 641), “to cast off,” Acts 27:43, of shipwrecked people in
throwing themselves into the water.¶