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hence it was called the Feast of the Dedication, John 10:22. This feast could be celebrated
anywhere. The lighting of lamps was a prominent feature; hence the description “Feast of
Lights.” Westcott suggests that John 9:5 refers to this.¶
DEED, DEEDS
1.
(
+$
, 2041) denotes “a work” (Eng., “work” is etymologically akin),
“deed, act.” When used in the sense of a “deed or act,” the idea of “working” is stressed,
e.g., Rom. 15:18; it frequently occurs in an ethical sense of human actions, good or bad,
e.g., Matt. 23:3; 26:10; John 3:20-21; Rom. 2:7, 15; 1 Thess. 1:3; 2 Thess. 1:11, etc.;
sometimes in a less concrete sense, e.g., Titus 1:16; Jas. 1:25 (
RV
that worketh, lit., of
work). See
LABOR
,
WORK
.
2.
@
(
$
, 4234) denotes “a doing, transaction, a deed the action of which is
looked upon as incomplete and in progress” (cf.
, “to practice”); in Matt. 16:27,
RV
, “deeds,” for
KJV
, “works”; in Luke 23:51, “deed”; in v. 41, the verb is used [see
Note
(2) below]; Acts 19:18; Rom. 8:13; Col. 3:9. In Rom. 12:4 it denotes an “action,”
business, or function, translated “office.” See
OFFICE
,
WORK
.¶
Note:
Contrast
, “that which has been done, an accomplished act,” e.g., Jas.
3:16,
RV
, “deed,”
KJV
, “work.”
3.
(
&
, 4162), “a doing” (akin to
, “to do”), is translated “deed” in
Jas. 1:25,
KJV
, (
RV
, “doing”).¶
Note:
Cf.
, “a work done,” Rom. 1:20; Eph. 2:10.¶
4.
$
(
' $ &
, 2108): see
BENEFIT
, No. 1.
Notes:
(1)
, “to work out, bring about something, to perpetrate a deed,”
is used with the neuter demonstrative pronoun
$
“this,” in 1 Cor. 5:3, “hath (so) done
this deed,”
KJV
;
RV
, “hath (so) wrought this thing.”
(2)
8
(see No. 2), is used in Luke 23:41, with the neuter plural of the relative
pronoun “of our deeds”; lit., “(the things) which we practiced.”
(3) In 2 Cor. 12:12 the phrase “mighty deeds” (
RV
, “mighty works”) translates
$
, “powers” (marg.). See
WORK
.
(4) In Acts 24:2,
, “a straightening,” with
, “to become,” is
translated in the
KJV
, “very worthy deeds are done,”
RV
, “evils are corrected”; more lit.,
“reforms take place.”¶ For the variant reading
, see
CORRECTION
, No. 1.
DEEM
$
(
%
!
, 5282), “to suppose, conjecture, surmise,” is translated
“deemed” in Acts 27:27,
KJV
(
RV
, “surmised”); in 13:25, “think ye” (
KJV
);
RV
, “suppose
ye”; in 25:18, supposed. See
SUPPOSE
,
THINK
.¶
DEEP (Noun and Adjective), DEEPNESS, DEEPLY, DEPTH
A. Nouns.
1.
(
1
, 899) is used (a) naturally, in Matt. 13:5, “deepness”; Mark 4:5,
KJV
,
“depth,”
RV
, “deepness”; Luke 5:4, of “deep” water; Rom. 8:39 (contrasted with