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Note:
In Rom. 9:6 the verb
, lit., “to fall out of, as of a ship falling out of its
course” (cf. the same word in Acts 27:17, “were driven”), is translated “hath taken none
effect,”
KJV
(
RV
, “hath come to nought”). See
NOUGHT
.
EFFECTUAL
A. Adjective.
(
#
$ )
, 1756) denotes “active, powerful in action” ( , “in,”
,
“work”; Eng. “energy”; the word “work” is derived from the same root). It is translated
“effectual” in 1 Cor. 16:9, of the door opened for the gospel in Ephesus, and made
“effectual” in the results of entering it; and in Philem. 6, of the fellowship of Philemon’s
faith “in the knowledge of every good thing” (
RV
). In Heb. 4:12 it describes the Word of
God as “active,”
RV
(
KJV
, “powerful”), i.e., full of power to achieve results. See
ACTIVE
,
POWERFUL
.¶
B. Verb.
(
#
$ !
, 1754), “to put forth power, be operative, to work” (its usual
meaning), is rendered by the verb “to work effectually,” or “to be effectual,” in the
KJV
of
2 Cor. 1:6; Gal. 2:8 and 1 Thess. 2:13; in each case the
RV
translates it by the simple verb
“to work” (past tense, “wrought”). In Jas. 5:16 the
RV
omits the superfluous word
“effectual,” and translates the sentence “the supplication of a righteous man availeth
much in its working,” the verb being in the present participial form. Here the meaning
may be “in its inworking,” i.e., in the effect produced in the praying man, bringing him
into line with the will of God, as in the case of Elijah. For a fuller treatment of the word,
see
WORK
. See also
DO
,
MIGHTY
,
SHEW
,
Note
(11).
Note:
The noun
, “working,” is translated “effectual working,” in the
KJV
of
Eph. 3:7, and 4:16.
EFFEMINATE
(
, 3120), “soft, soft to the touch” (Lat.,
, Eng., “mollify,”
“emollient,” etc.), is used (a) of raiment, Matt. 11:8 (twice); Luke 7:25; (b)
metaphorically, in a bad sense, 1 Cor. 6:9, “effeminate,” not simply of a male who
practices forms of lewdness, but persons in general, who are guilty of addiction to sins of
the flesh, voluptuous.¶
EFFULGENCE
$
(
"
, 541), “radiance, effulgence,” is used of light shining from a
luminous body ( , “from,” and
$
, “brightness”). The word is found in Heb. 1:3,
where it is used of the Son of God as “being the effulgence of His glory.” The word
“effulgence” exactly corresponds (in its Latin form) to
$
. The “glory” of God
expresses all that He is in His nature and His actings and their manifestation. The Son,
being one with the Father in Godhood, is in Himself, and ever was, the shining forth of
the “glory,” manifesting in Himself all that God is and does, all, for instance, that is
involved in His being “the very image of His substance,” and in His creative acts, His
sustaining power, and in His making purification of sins, with all that pertains thereto and
issues from it.¶
EGG