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(
, 2974), akin to
, “to beat,” and
, “to be tired” (from a root
, “to cut”), signifies “blunted, dull,” as of a weapon; hence, “blunted in tongue,
dumb,” Matt. 9:32 etc.; “in hearing, deaf,” Matt. 11:5; Mark 7:32, 37; 9:25; Luke 7:22.
See
DUMB
.
For a
GREAT DEAL
see
GREAT
DEAL
(
$&
, 3307) signifies “to divide into parts” (
, “a portion, part”);
hence, “to distribute, divide out, deal out to,” translated “hath dealt” in Rom. 12:3. See
DIFFERENCE
,
DISTRIBUTE
,
DIVINE
.
DEAL WITH, HAVE DEALINGS WITH
1.
(
!
, 4160), “to do,” used to describe almost any act, whether complete or
repeated, like the Eng. “do,” is translated to deal with, in Luke 2:48. In Luke 1:25,
KJV
,
“hath dealt with (me),” the
RV
, adhering to the ordinary meaning, translates by “hath
done unto (me).”
2.
(
$ !$
, 4374), “to bring or bear to” (
, “to,”
, “to bear”),
signifies, in the middle voice, to bear oneself towards any one, to deal with anyone in a
certain manner, Heb. 12:7, “God dealeth with you.” See
BRING
,
OFFER
,
PRESENT
.
3.
$
(
$1
, 4798), lit., “to use with” (
$
, “with,”
, “to
use”), “to have in joint use, and hence to have dealings with,” is said, in John 4:9, of Jews
and Samaritans.¶
Notes:
(1) In Acts 25:24,
$
, “to fall in with, meet and talk with,” and hence
“to make suit to a person” by way of pleading with him, is translated “have dealt with” in
the
KJV
; correctly in the
RV
, “have made suit to,” of the Jews in appealing to Festus
against Paul. See
INTERCESSION
.
(2)
, “to circumvent by fraud, conquer by subtle devices” (
,
“down,” intensive, and
, “to devise cleverly or cunningly”; cf. Eng., “sophist,
sophistry”), is translated “dealt subtilly,” in Acts 7:19, of Pharaoh’s dealings with the
Israelites.¶ This is the word in the Sept. of Ex. 1:10. See
SUBTILLY
.¶
(3) In 1 Thess. 2:11 the italicized phrase “we dealt with” (
RV
), has no corresponding
word in the original, but is inserted in order to bring out the participial forms of the verbs
“exhorting,” “encouraging,” “testifying,” as showing the constant practice of the apostles
at Thessalonica. The incompleteness of the sentence in the original illustrates the
informal homeliness of the Epistle.
(4) In 2 Cor. 13:10, the verb
, “to use,” is rendered, in the
RV
, “deal
(sharply),”
KJV
, “use (sharpness).”
DEAR
1.
(
&
, 5093), from
, “honor, price,” signifies (a), primarily,
“accounted as of great price, precious, costly,” 1 Cor. 3:12; Rev. 17:4; 18:12, 16; 21:19,
and in the superlative degree, 18:12; 21:11; the comparative degree is found in 1 Pet. 1:7
(
$
, in the most authentic mss., “much more precious”); (b) in the
metaphorical sense, “held in honor, esteemed, very dear,” Acts 5:34, “had in honor,”
RV