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abstaining from, wedlock”; (c) one such, in a position of high authority in a court, “a
chamberlain,” Acts 8:27-39.¶
B. Verb.
$ $
(
'
&
, 2134), “to make a eunuch” (from A), is used in Matt. 19:12,
as under (b) in A; and in the passive voice, “were made eunuchs,” probably an allusion
by the Lord to the fact that there were eunuchs in the courts of the Herods, as would be
well known to His hearers.¶
EVANGELIST
$
(
' )
, 2099), lit., “a messenger of good” (
$
, “well,”
,
“a messenger”), denotes a “preacher of the gospel,” Acts 21:8; Eph. 4:11, which makes
clear the distinctiveness of the function in the churches; 2 Tim. 4:5.¶ Cf.
$
, “to
proclaim glad tidings,” and
$
, “good news, gospel.” Missionaries are
“evangelists,” as being essentially preachers of the gospel.
EVEN (Noun), EVENING, EVENTIDE
A. Nouns.
1.
(
= !$
, 2073), properly, the feminine of the adjective
, “of, or at,
evening, western” (Lat.,
2
, Eng., “vespers”), is used as a noun in Luke 24:29; Acts
4:3, “eventide”; 28:23. Some mss. have the word in 20:15, “in the evening (we touched),”
instead of
, “next (day).”
2.
(
7
, 3798**), the feminine of the adjective
, “late,” used as a noun,
denoting “evening,” with
, “understood” (see No. 1), is found seven times in
Matthew, five in Mark, two in John, and in these places only in the NT (some mss. have
it in Mark 11:11, see B). The word really signifies the “late evening,” the latter of the two
“evenings” as reckoned by the Jews, the first from 3 p.m. to sunset, the latter after sunset;
this is the usual meaning. It is used, however, of both, e.g., Mark 1:32 (cf.
,
“latter,” said of rain, Jas. 5:7).
B. Adverb.
(
A !
, 3796), “long after, late, late in the day, at evening” (in contrast to
,
“early,” e.g., Matt. 20:1), is used practically as a noun in Mark 11:11, lit., “the hour being
at eventide”; 11:19; 13:35; in Matt. 28:1 it is rendered “late on,”
RV
, for
KJV
, “in the end
of.” Here, however, the meaning seems to be “after,” a sense in which the word was used
by late Greek writers. See
LATE
.¶ In the Sept., Gen. 24:11; Exod. 30:8; Jer. 2:23; Isa.
5:11.¶
Note:
In Luke 12:38 some mss. have the adjective
, “of the evening” (see
A, No. 1), lit., “in the evening watch.”
EVEN (Adjective)
** Differing gender, number, or verb forms (for instance, infinitive or participle) of other
words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a double asterisk (for instance,
, from
, is 3798**).