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1.
(
!
, 5399), in earlier Greek, “to put to flight” (see A, No. 1), in the NT
is always in the passive voice, with the meanings either (a) “to fear, be afraid,” its most
frequent use, e.g., Acts 23:10, according to the best mss. (see No. 2); or (b) “to show
reverential fear” [see A, No. 1, (b)], (1) of men, Mark 6:20; Eph. 5:33,
RV
, “fear,” for
KJV
, “reverence”; (2) of God, e.g., Acts 10:2, 22; 13:16, 26; Col. 3:22 (
RV
, “the Lord”); 1
Pet. 2:17; Rev. 14:7; 15:4; 19:5; (a) and (b) are combined in Luke 12:4, 5, where Christ
warns His followers not to be afraid of men, but to “fear” God. See
MARVEL
, B, No. 1,
Note
.
2.
$
(
' !
, 2125), “to be cautious, to beware” (see A, No. 3),
signifies to act with the reverence produced by holy “fear,” Heb. 11:7, “moved with
godly fear.”
Notes:
(1) In Acts 23:10 some mss. have this verb with the meaning (a) under No. 1.
(2) In Luke 3:14,
, “to shake violently, to intimidate, to extort by violence,
blackmail,” is rendered “put no man in fear” in
KJV
marg. See
VIOLENCE
.
FEAST
A. Nouns.
1.
(
= $ )
, 1859), “a feast or festival,” is used (a) especially of those of the
Jews, and particularly of the Passover; the word is found mostly in John’s gospel
(seventeen times); apart from the Gospels it is used in this way only in Acts 18:21; (b) in
a more general way, in Col. 2:16,
KJV
, “holy day,”
RV
, “a feast day.”
2.
(
, 1173) denotes (a) “the chief meal of the day,” dinner or supper,
taken at or towards evening; in the plural “feasts,” Matt. 23:6; Mark 6:21; 12:39; Luke
20:46; otherwise translated “supper,” Luke 14:12, 16, 17, 24; John 12:2; 13:2, 4; 21:20; 1
Cor. 11:21 (of a social meal); (b) “the Lord’s Supper,” 1 Cor. 11:20; (c) “the supper or
feast” which will celebrate the marriage of Christ with His spiritual Bride, at the
inauguration of His Kingdom, Rev. 19:9; (d) figuratively, of that to which the birds of
prey will be summoned after the overthrow of the enemies of the Lord at the termination
of the war of Armageddon, 19:17 (cf. Ezek. 39:4, 17-20). See
SUPPER
.¶
3.
(
)
, 1403), “a reception feast, a banquet” (from
, “to receive”),
Luke 5:29; 14:13 (not the same as No 2; see v. 12).¶
4.
(
1
, 1062), “a wedding,” especially a wedding “feast” (akin to
,
“to marry”); it is used in the plural in the following passages (the
RV
rightly has
“marriage feast” for the
KJV
, “marriage,” or “wedding”), Matt. 22:2, 3, 4, 9 (in verses 11,
12, it is used in the singular, in connection with the wedding garment); 25:10; Luke
12:36; 14:8; in the following it signifies a wedding itself, John 2:1, 2; Heb. 13:4; and
figuratively in Rev. 19:7, of the marriage of the Lamb; in v. 9 it is used in connection
with the supper, the wedding supper (or what in English is termed “breakfast”), not the
wedding itself, as in v. 7.
5.
(
1
, 26), “love,” is used in the plural in Jude 12, signifying “love feasts,”
RV
(
KJV
, “feasts of charity”); in the corresponding passage, 2 Pet. 2:13, the most authentic
mss. have the word
, in the plural, “deceivings.”