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John 18:39; 1 Cor. 11:16; “or force of habit,” 1 Cor. 8:7,
RV
, “being used to” (some mss.
here have
$
, “conscience”; whence
KJV
, “with conscience of”).¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
# &
, 1480), akin to A, No. 1, signifies “to accustom,” or in the passive
voice, “to be accustomed.” In the participial form it is equivalent to a noun, “custom,
Luke 2:27.¶
2.
(
+
, 1486), “to be accustomed,” as in the case of No. 1, is used in the passive
participle as a noun, signifying “a custom,” Luke 4:16; Acts 17:2 (
KJV
, “manner”;
RV
,
“custom”); in Matt. 17:15 and Mark 10:1, “was wont.” See
MANNER
,
WONT
.¶
CUSTOM (Toll)
1.
(
!
, 5056) “an end, termination,” whether of time or purpose, denotes, in
its secondary significance, “what is paid for public ends, a toll, tax, custom,” Matt. 17:25
(
RV
, “toll”); Rom. 13:7 (
RV
and
KJV
, “custom”). In Palestine the Herods of Galilee and
Perea received the “custom”; in Judea it was paid to the procurator for the Roman
government. See
END
,
FINALLY
,
UTTERMOST
.
2.
(
0
, 5058) denotes “a custom-house,” for the collection of the
taxes, Matt. 9:9; Mark 2:14; Luke 5:27 (
RV
, “place of toll”).
CUT
1.
(
, 2875) denotes “to cut by a blow,” e.g., branches, Matt. 21:8; Mark
11:8. See
BEWAIL
,
LAMENT
,
MOURN
,
WAIL
.
2.
(
, 609), “to cut off, or cut away” ( , “from,” and No. 1), is
used (a) literally, of members of the body, Mark 9:43, 45; John 18:10, 26; of ropes, Acts
27:32; (b) metaphorically, in the middle voice, of “cutting off oneself,” to
excommunicate, Gal. 5:12, of the Judaizing teachers, with a reference, no doubt, to
circumcision.¶
3.
(
#
, 1581), lit., “to cut or strike out” ( , “out or off,” and No. 1),
“to cut down,” is used (a) literally, Matt. 5:30 (in 3:10 and 7:19 and Luke 3:9, “hewn
down”); 18:8; Luke 13:7, 9; (b) metaphorically, of “cutting off” from spiritual blessing,
Rom. 11:22, 24; of depriving persons of an occasion for something 2 Cor. 11:12. See
HEW
.¶
Note:
In 1 Pet. 3:7 the best mss. have
, “to hinder”; some have
.
4.
(
, 2629), lit., to cut down, cut in pieces” (
, “down,”
intensive), Mark 5:5, of the demoniac.¶
5.
(
$&
, 1282) signifies “to saw asunder” ( , “asunder,”
, “to saw”),
“to divide by a saw” (as in 1 Chron. 20:3, Sept.), hence, metaphorically, “to be sawn
through mentally, to be rent with vexation, to be cut to the heart,” is used in Acts 5:33;
7:54.¶
6.
(
!
, 1371), lit., to cut into two parts” (
, “apart,”
,
“to cut,”
, “a cutting”), Matt. 24:51, “to cut asunder,” is used in Luke 12:46. Some
take the reference to be to the mode of punishment by which criminals and captives were
“cut” in two; others, on account of the fact that in these passages the delinquent is still