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and cutting it short,” is expressive of the summary and decisive character of His action.
See
DO
.
2.
$
(
, $ "
, 2407), “to be a priest, to officiate as such,” is translated
“executed the priest’s office,” in Luke 1:8.¶ It occurs frequently in the Sept., and in
inscriptions. Cf.
$
, “priesthood,” 1 Pet. 2:5, 9,,¶
, “a priest’s office,”
Luke 1:9; Heb. 7:5,¶
$
, “a priest,” and
, “sacred.”
For
EXECUTIONER,
Mark 6:27
, see
GUARD
, A, No. 2
EXERCISE
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
1
, 1128) primarily signifies “to exercise naked” (from
$
,
“naked”); then, generally, “to exercise, to train the body or mind” (Eng., “gymnastic”), 1
Tim. 4:7, with a view to godliness; Heb. 5:14, of the senses, so as to discern good and
evil; 12:11, of the effect of chastening, the spiritual “exercise producing the fruit of
righteousness”; 2 Pet. 2:14, of certain evil teachers with hearts “exercised in
covetousness,”
RV
.¶
2.
(
!
, 778) signifies “to form by art, to adorn, to work up raw material
with skill”; hence, in general, “to take pains, endeavor, exercise by training or discipline,”
with a view to a conscience void of offense, Acts 24:16.¶
3.
(
!
, 4160), “to do,” is translated “exerciseth” in Rev. 13:12, said of the
authority of the second “Beast.” Cf. EXECUTE. See
DO
.
Notes:
The following verbs contain in translation the word “exercise” but belong to
other headings:
@ $
, “to exercise authority over,” Luke 22:25 (
@ $
,
“authority”); in the first part of this verse, the verb
$ $
, “to be lord,” is translated
“exercise lordship,”
KJV
(
RV
, “have lordship”);
@ $
, a strengthened form of the
preceding (
, “down,” intensive), Matt. 20:25; Mark 10:42, “exercise authority” (in
the first part of these verses the synonymous verb
$ $
, is rendered “lord it,”
RV
,
for
KJV
, “exercise dominion,” and “exercise lordship,” respectively);
, “to look
over or upon” ( , “over,”
, “to look”), “to care for,” 1 Pet. 5:2 (absent in some
mss.),
RV
, “exercising the oversight,” for
KJV
“taking, etc.”
B. Noun.
$
(
&
, 1129) primarily denotes “gymnastic exercise” (akin to A, No.
1), 1 Tim. 4:8, where the immediate reference is probably not to mere physical training
for games but to discipline of the body such as that to which the apostle refers in 1 Cor.
9:27, though there may be an allusion to the practices of asceticism.
EXHORT, EXHORTATION
A. Verbs.
1.
(
$
!
, 3870), primarily, “to call to a person” (
, “to the side,”
, “to call”), denotes (a) “to call on, entreat”; see
BESEECH
; (b) to admonish, exhort,