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, “height”); (b) metaphorically, in Rom. 11:33, of God’s wisdom and
knowledge; in 1 Cor. 2:10, of God’s counsels; in Eph. 3:18, of the dimensions of the
sphere of the activities of God’s counsels, and of the love of Christ which occupies that
sphere; in 2 Cor. 8:2, of “deep” poverty; some mss. have it in Rev. 2:24.¶
2.
$
(
, 1037), “a depth,” is used in the NT only in the natural sense, of the
sea 2 Cor. 11:25.¶
Notes:
(1) Cf.
$
, “to sink” (intransitive), middle voice, Luke 5:7; (transitive) “to
drown,” 1 Tim. 6:9.¶
(2)
* $
, (Eng., “abyss”), is translated “the deep” in Luke 8:31 and Rom. 10:7,
KJV
. See
ABYSS
,
BOTTOM
.
B. Adjective and Adverb.
$
(
"
, 901), akin to A, No. 1, “deep,” is said in John 4:11, of a well; in Acts
20:9, of sleep; in Rev. 2:24 the plural is used, of the “deep things,” the evil designs and
workings, of Satan.
Notes:
(1) In Luke 24:1, some mss. have
, the genitive case, with
,
“dawn”; the most authentic mss. have
, “deeply,” i.e., very early.
(2) In Mark 8:12, “He sighed deeply” represents
, “to fetch a deep-drawn
sigh” ( , “up,”
, “to sigh or groan”). See
SIGH
.¶
C. Verb.
$
(
"
, 900), “to deepen, make deep,” is used in Luke 6:48 (
KJV
, “digged
deep”). The original has two separate verbs,
, “to dig,” and
$ ;
the
RV
therefore has “digged and went deep.”¶
DEFAME
$
(
L
, 1418 and
L
, 5346), lit., “to speak injuriously” (from
$
, an
inseparable prefix signifying “opposition, injury, etc.,” and
, “to speak”), is
translated “defamed,” 1 Cor. 4:13. Some mss. have
. See
BLASPHEME
.¶
DEFECT
(
J
, 2275), primarily “a lessening, a decrease, diminution,” denotes “a
loss.” It is used of the “loss” sustained by the Jewish nation in that they had rejected
God’s testimonies and His Son and the gospel, Rom. 11:12, the reference being not only
to national diminution but to spiritual “loss”;
RV
, “loss,” for
KJV
, “diminishing.” Here the
contrasting word is
, “fullness.” In 1 Cor. 6:7 the reference is to the spiritual
“loss” sustained by the church at Corinth because or their discord and their litigious ways
in appealing to the world’s judges. Here the
RV
has “defect” (marg. “loss”), for
KJV
“fault.” The preceding adverb “altogether” shows the comprehensiveness of the “defect”;
the “loss” affected the whole church, and was “an utter detriment.”
In the Sept. of Isa. 31:8 the word signifies the “loss” of a defeat, with reference to the
overthrow of the Assyrians; lit. “his young men shall be for loss” (i.e., “tributary”). See
DIMINISHING
,
FAULT
,
LOSS
.¶