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2.
$
(
!$
, 4905), “to come, or go, with,” is rendered “have
companied” in Acts 1:21. See
COME
, No. 11.
Notes:
(1)
*
, “to separate,” is translated “separate (you) from (their)
company,” in Luke 6:22, the latter part being added in italics to supply the meaning of
excommunication. See
DIVIDE
.
(2)
, “to join,” is rendered “keep company,” in Acts 10:28,
KJV
;
RV
, “join
himself.” See
CLEAVE
,
JOIN
.
(3)
>
, lit., “to make a crowd” (
, “a crowd,”
, “to make”), is
translated “gathered a company,” in Acts 17:5,
KJV
; the
RV
corrects this to “gathering a
crowd.” See
CROWD
.¶
COMPARE, COMPARISON
1.
$
(
$&
, 4793) denotes (a) “to join fitly, to combine,” 1 Cor. 2:13,
either in the sense of combining spiritual things with spiritual, adapting the discourse to
the subject, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, or communicating spiritual things by
spiritual things or words, or in the sense of interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men,
RV
and
KJV
, “comparing” (cf. the Sept. use, of interpreting dreams, etc. Gen. 40:8, 16, 22;
41:12, 15; Dan. 5:12); (b) “to place together; hence, judge or discriminate by comparison,
compare, with or among,” 2 Cor. 10:12 (thrice).¶
2.
(
$ 1
, 3846), “to place side by side, to set forth,” and the noun
(Eng., “parable”), occur in Mark 4:30,
RV
, “In what parable shall we set it
forth?,”
KJV
, “with what comparison shall we compare it?” See
ARRIVE
.
Note:
The preposition
, “towards,” is sometimes used of mental direction, in the
way of estimation, or comparison, as in the phrase “(worthy) to be compared,” or
“(worthy) in comparison with,” Rom. 8:18.
COMPASS
1.
$ $
(
, 2944v) denotes “to encircle, surround,” and is found in the best
texts in John 10:24, “came round about,” and Rev. 20:9, of a camp surrounded by foes;
some mss. have No. 2 in each place.¶
2.
$
(
, 2944), (cf. Eng., cycle”), signifies “to move in a circle, to
compass about,” as of a city “encompassed” by armies, Luke 21:20; Heb. 11:30; in Acts
14:20, “stood round about. See
COME
, No. 38,
STAND
.¶
3.
$
(
$
, 4033),
, “about,” with No. 2, is used in Luke 19:43,
“shall compass … round.¶
4.
(
$ 1
, 4013), “to lead about,” 1 Cor. 9:5, or, intransitively, “to go
about, to go up and down,” is so used in Matt. 4:23; 9:35; Mark 6:6; Acts 13:11; “to
compass regions,” Matt. 23:15. See
GO
,
LEAD
.¶
5.
(
$&
, 4029), “to be encompassed”: see
BOUND
(b),
HANG
.
v Variant spellings of forms of other words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a “v”
following the number (for instance,
, a variant of
, is 1790v).