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4.
(
1
, 4685), “to draw or pull,” is used, in the middle voice of “drawing” a
sword from its sheath, Mark 14:47; Acts 16:27.¶
5.
(
1
, 385),
, “up,” and No. 4, “to draw up,” is used of “drawing”
up an animal out of a pit, Luke 14:5 (
RV
, “draw up”;
KJV
, “pull out”), and of the
“drawing” up of the sheet into heaven, in the vision in Acts 11:10.¶
6.
(
1
, 645),
, “from,” and No. 4, “to draw away,” lit., “to wrench
away from,” is used of a sword, Matt. 26:51, of “drawing” away disciples into error, Acts
20:30; of Christ’s “withdrawal” from the disciples, in Gethsemane, Luke 22:41,
KJV
,
“was withdrawn,”
RV
, “was parted” (or “was reft away from them”); of “parting” from a
company, Acts 21:1 (
KJV
, “were gotten,”
RV
, “were parted”). See
GET
,
PART
.¶
7.
(
!
, 501) signified, primarily, “to draw out a ship’s bilgewater, to bale
or pump out” (from
, “bilge-water”), hence, “to draw water” in any way ( , “up”
and a root,
, “to lift, bear”), John 2:8-9; 4:7, 15.¶
Note:
In John 4:11, “to draw with” translates the corresponding noun
, “a
bucket for drawing water by a rope.Ӧ
8.
@
(
# !
, 1828), , “out of,” and No. 2, “to draw away, or lure forth,” is
used metaphorically in Jas. 1:14, of being “drawn away” by lust. As in hunting or fishing
the game is “lured” from its haunt, so man’s lust “allures” him from the safety of his self-
restraint.¶
9.
(
1
, 392), “to arrange in order,” is used in Luke 1:1,
RV
,
“to draw up” (some interpret the word to mean to “bring together” from memory assisted
by the Holy Spirit).¶
(B)
9
7
(
( 3&
1.
(
# &
, 1448), “to come near draw nigh” (akin to
$
, “near”), is
translated by the verb “draw near or nigh,” in the
RV
, Luke 12:33,
KJV
, “approacheth”;
Heb. 10:25,
KJV
, “approaching”; Luke 18:35; 19:29, 37; Acts 22:6,
KJV
, “was come
nigh”; Luke 7:12 “came nigh”; Acts 9:3, “came near.” See
APPROACH
.
2.
(
$ !$
, 4334) is translated “draw near” in Heb. 4:16; 7:25,
RV
, and 10:22,
KJV
and
RV
; in Acts 7:31, “drew near.” See
COME
,
GO
.
3.
(
$ 1
, 4317), used transitively, “to bring to”; intransitively, “to draw
near,” Is so rendered in Acts 27:27. See
BRING
.
4.
$
(
% !
, 5288), “to draw back, withdraw,” perhaps a metaphor
from lowering a sail and so slackening the course, and hence of being remiss in holding
the truth; in the active voice, rendered “drew back” in Gal. 2:12,
RV
(
KJV
, “withdrew”); in
the middle, in Heb. 10:38, “shrink back”
RV
(
KJV
, “draw back”); the prefix
$
,
“underneath,” is here suggestive of stealth. In v. 39 the corresponding noun,
$
, is
translated “of them that shrink back,”
RV
;
KJV
, “draw back” (lit., “of shrinking back”). In
Acts 20:20, 27, “shrank,”
RV
. See
KEEP
,
Note
(6),
SHRINK
,
SHUN
,
WITHDRAW
.¶
5.
(
&
, 868): see
DEPART
, A, No. 20.