Basic HTML Version
(
8
, 5609) denotes “an egg” (Lat.,
2$
), Luke 11:12.¶
EIGHT, EIGHTEEN, EIGHTH
(
A
0
, 3638), “eight” (Lat.,
2$ ;
cf. Eng., “octagon,” “octave,”
“octavo,” “October,” etc.), is used in Luke 2:21; 9:28; John 20:26; Acts 9:33; 25:6; 1 Pet.
3:20; in composition with other numerals,
, lit., “eight and ten, eighteen,”
Luke 13:4, 11, 16;
, “thirty and eight,” John 5:5.¶
(
7
, 3590), “eighth” (connected with the preceding), is used in Luke
1:59; Acts 7:8; 2 Pet. 2:5; Rev. 17:11; 21:20.¶
(
A
) $
, 3637), an adjective, signifying an “eighth-day” person or
thing, “eight days old” (
, and
, “a day”), is used in Phil. 3:5. This, and similar
numerical adjectives not found in the NT, indicate duration rather than intervals. The
apostle shows by his being an “eighth-day” person as to circumcision, that his parents
were neither Ishmaelites (circumcised in their thirteenth year) nor other Gentiles,
converted to Judaism (circumcised on becoming Jews).
EITHER
(
@
, 2228) is a disjunctive particle. One of its uses is to distinguish things which
exclude each other, or one of which can take the place of another. It is translated “either”
in Matt. 6:24; 12:33; Luke 16:13; Acts 17:21; 1 Cor. 14:6. The
RV
rightly omits it in Luke
6:42, and translates it by “or” in Luke 15:8; Phil. 3:12 and Jas. 3:12.
Note:
The adverb
$
, denoting “hence,” is repeated in the phrase rendered “on
either side,” (lit., “hence and hence”) in John 19:18. The
RV
of Rev. 22:2 translates it “on
this side,” distinguishing it from
, “on that side”; the
KJV
, following another
reading for the latter adverb, has “on either side.” See
HENCE
.
ELDER, ELDEST
A. Adjectives.
1.
$
(
$ " $
, 4245), an adjective, the comparative degree of
$
,
“an old man, an elder,” is used (a) of age, whether of the “elder” of two persons, Luke
15:25, or more, John 8:9, “the eldest”, or of a person advanced in life, a senior, Acts 2:17;
in Heb. 11:2, the “elders” are the forefathers in Israel so in Matt. 15:2; Mark 7:3, 5 the
feminine of the adjective is used of “elder” women in the churches, 1 Tim. 5:2, not in
respect of position but in seniority of age; (b) of rank or positions of responsibility, (1)
among Gentiles, as in the Sept. of Gen. 50:7; Num. 22:7, (2) in the Jewish nation, firstly,
those who were the heads or leaders of the tribes and families, as of the seventy who
assisted Moses, Num. 11:16; Deut. 27:1, and those assembled by Solomon; secondly,
members of the Sanhedrin, consisting of the chief priests, “elders” and scribes, learned in
Jewish law, e.g., Matt. 16:21; 26:47; thirdly, those who managed public affairs in the
various cities, Luke 7:3; (3) in the Christian churches those who, being raised up and
qualified by the work of the Holy Spirit, were appointed to have the spiritual care of, and
to exercise oversight over, the churches. To these the term “bishops,”
, or
“overseers,” is applied (see Acts 20, v. 17 with v. 28, and Titus 1:5 and 7), the latter term