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B. Adjective.
$
(
$
, 3835), “cunning, crafty,” is found in 2 Cor. 12:16, where the
apostle is really quoting an accusation made against him by his detractors.¶ In the Sept. it
is used in a good sense in Prov. 13:1; 28:2.¶
C. Noun.
(
, 1388), primarily, “a bait,” hence, “fraud, guile, deceit,” is rendered
“craft” in the
KJV
of Mark 14:1 (
RV
“subtilty”). See
DECEIT
,
GUILE
,
SUBTLETY
.
CRAVE
Note:
The word “crave,” found in the
KJV
of Mark 15:43, translates the verb
, “to
ask” (
RV
, “asked for”). See
ASK
.
CREATE, CREATION, CREATOR, CREATURE
A. Verb.
(
&
, 2936), used among the Greeks to mean the founding of a place, a city or
colony, signifies, in Scripture, “to create,” always of the act of God, whether (a) in the
natural creation, Mark 13:19; Rom. 1:25 (where the title “The Creator” translates the
article with the aorist participle of the verb); 1 Cor. 11:9; Eph. 3:9; Col. 1:16; 1 Tim. 4:3;
Rev. 4:11; 10:6, or (b) in the spiritual creation, Eph. 2:10, 15; 4:24; Col. 3:10. See
MAKE
.¶
B. Nouns.
1.
(
&
, 2937), primarily “the act of creating,” or “the creative act in
process,” has this meaning in Rom. 1:20 and Gal. 6:15. Like the English word “creation,”
it also signifies the product of the “creative” act, the “creature,” as in Mark 16:15,
RV
;
Rom. 1:25; 8:19; Col. 1:15 etc.; in Heb. 9:11,
KJV
, “building.” In Mark 16:15 and Col.
1:23 its significance has special reference to mankind in general. As to its use in Gal.
6:15 and 2 Cor. 5:17, in the former, apparently, “the reference is to the creative act of
God, whereby a man is introduced into the blessing of salvation, in contrast to
circumcision done by human hands, which the Judaizers claimed was necessary to that
end. In 2 Cor. 5:17 the reference is to what the believer is in Christ; in consequence of the
creative act he has become a new creature.”*
is once used of human actions, 1 Pet. 2:13, “ordinance” (marg., “creation”). See
BUILDING
,
ORDINANCE
.
2.
(
&
, 2938) has the concrete sense, “the created thing, the creature, the
product of the creative act,” 1 Tim. 4:4; Jas. 1:18; Rev. 5:13; 8:9.¶
3.
(
)
, 2939), among the Greeks, the founder of a city, etc., denotes in
Scripture “the Creator,” 1 Pet. 4:19 (cf. Rom. 1:20, under B, No. 1, above).¶
Note:
It is a significant confirmation of Rom. 1:20-21, that in all nonchristian Greek
literature these words are never used by Greeks to convey the idea of a creator or of a
creative act by any of their gods. The words are confined by them to the acts of human
beings.
4.
(
, 2226), “a living creature”: see
BEAST
.
* From
Notes on Galatians,
by Hogg and Vine, p. 339.