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DECK (Verb)
$
(
$
, 5558), lit., “to gild with gold” (
$
, “gold”), is used in Rev.
17:4; 18:16.¶
DECLARE, DECLARATION
A. Verbs.
1.
(
!
, 312) signifies “to announce, report, bring back tidings”
( , “back,”
, “to announce”). Possibly the
carries the significance of
upward, i.e., heavenly, as characteristic of the nature of the tidings. In the following,
either the
KJV
or the
RV
translates the word by the verb “to declare”; in John 4:25,
RV
,
“declare,”
KJV
, “tell”; in 16:13-15,
RV
, “declare,”
KJV
, “shew”; in Acts 15:4,
RV
,
“rehearsed,”
KJV
, “declared”; in 19:18,
RV
, “declaring,”
KJV
, “shewed” (a reference,
perhaps, to the destruction of their idols, in consequence of their new faith); in 20:20,
RV
,
“declaring,”
KJV
, “have shewed”; in 1 John 1:5,
RV
, “announce,”
KJV
, “declare.” See
REHEARSE
,
REPORT
,
SHEW
,
SPEAK
,
TELL
.
2.
(
!
, 518) signifies “to announce or report from a person or
place” ( , “from”); hence, “to declare, publish”; it is rendered “declare” in Luke 8:47;
Heb. 2:12; 1 John 1:3. It is very frequent in the Gospels and Acts; elsewhere, other than
the last two places mentioned, only in 1 Thess. 1:9 and 1 John 1:2. See
BRING
, A, No. 36.
3.
(
!
, 1229), lit., “to announce through,” hence, “to declare fully,
or far and wide” ( , “through”), is translated “declaring” in Acts 21:26,
RV
(
KJV
, “to
signify”); in Luke 9:60,
RV
, “publish abroad” (for
KJV
, “preach”), giving the verb its
fuller significance; so in Rom. 9:17, for
KJV
, “declared.” See
PREACH
,
SIGNIFY
.¶
4.
(
!
, 2605), lit., “to report down” (
, intensive), is
ordinarily translated “to preach”; “declare” in Acts 17:23,
KJV
(
RV
, “set forth”); in 1 Cor.
2:1,
RV
, “proclaiming,” for
KJV
, “declaring.” It is nowhere translated by “declare” in the
RV
. See
PREACH
,
SHOW
,
SPEAK
,
TEACH
.
5.
(
$ !
, 3853): see
CHARGE
, B, No. 8.
6.
(
!
, 1334), “to conduct a narration through to the end” ( ,
“through,” intensive,
, “to lead”), hence denotes “to recount, to relate in full,”
Mark 5:16; Luke 8:39; 9:10; Acts 8:33; 9:27; 12:17; in Mark 9:9 and Heb. 11:32, “tell.
See
SHOW
,
TELL
.¶
7.
(
#
!
, 1555), properly, “to narrate in full,” came to denote,
“to tell, declare”; it is used in Acts 13:41; 15:3.¶
8.
@
(
# !
, 1834), lit., “to lead out,” signifies “to make known,
rehearse declare,” Luke 24:35 (
KJV
, “told”;
RV
, “rehearsed”); Acts 10:8; 15:12, 14; 21:19.
In John 1:18, in the sentence “He hath declared Him,” the other meaning of the verb is in
view, to unfold in teaching, “to declare” by making known. See
TELL
.¶
9.
(
3$&
, 3724), “to mark off by boundaries,” signifies “to determine,”
usually of time; in Rom. 1:4, Christ is said to have been “marked out” as the Son of God,
by the fact of His resurrection; “declared” (
RV
, marg., “determined”). See
DEFINE
. 10.