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(
$ !
, 736), from
, “to fasten to,” is rendered “mainsail” in Acts
27:40,
KJV
;
RV
, “foresail.” As to the particular kind of sail there mentioned, Sir William
Ramsay, quoting from Juvenal concerning the entrance of a disabled ship into harbor by
means of a prow-sail, indicates that the
would be a sail set on the bow.¶
FORESEE, FORESEEN
1.
(
$ $1
, 4308), with the aorist form
(used to supply tenses
lacking in
), “to see before” ( , “before,”
, “to see”), is used with
reference (a) to the past, of seeing a person before, Acts 21:29; (b) to the future, in the
sense of “foreseeing” a person or thing, Acts 2:25, with reference to Christ and the
Father,
RV
, “beheld” (here the middle voice is used).¶
2.
(
$ &
, 4275), an aorist tense form without a present, “to foresee,” is
used of David, as foreseeing Christ, in Acts 2:31,
RV
, “foreseeing” (
KJV
, “seeing before”);
in Gal. 3:8 it is said of the Scripture, personified, personal activity being attributed to it
by reason of its divine source (cf. v. 22). “What saith the Scripture?” was a common
formula among the Rabbis.¶ In the Sept., Gen. 37:18; Ps. 16:8 (
); 139:3.¶
3.
(
$ !
, 4265), from
, “before,” and
, “to see, perceive,” is
translated “having provided” in Heb. 11:40 (middle voice), marg., “foreseen,” which is
the lit. meaning pf the verb, as with Eng. “provide.”¶ In the Sept., Ps. 37:13.¶
FORESHEW
(
$
!
, 4293), “to announce beforehand” ( , “before,”
, “to proclaim”), is translated “foreshewed” in Acts 3:18,
RV
(
KJV
, “before had
shewed”); in 7:52,
KJV
and
RV
, “shewed before.”¶
FORESHIP
(
$0$
, 4408) denotes the forward part of a ship, “the prow,” Acts 27:30; in v.
41 (
KJV
, “forepart”) in contrast to
$
, “the stern.”¶
FORETELL
(
$ !
, 4302), with the aorist form
, and a perfect form
(from
), signifies (1) “to declare openly” or “plainly,” or “to say” or “tell
beforehand” ( , “before,”
, “to say”), translated in 2 Cor. 13:2 (in the first
sentence),
RV
, “I have said beforehand,”
KJV
, “I told … before”, in the next sentence,
KJV
,
“I foretell,”
RV
, “I do say beforehand” (marg., “plainly”); not prophecy is here in view,
but a warning given before and repeated (see under
FOREWARN
); (2) “to speak before, of
prophecy,” as “foretelling” the future, Mark 13:23,
KJV
, “have foretold,”
RV
, “have told
… beforehand”; Acts 1:16 (of the prophecy concerning Judas); Rom. 9:29; 2 Pet. 3:2;
Jude 17; some inferior mss. have it in Heb. 10:15. See
FOREWARN
,
SPEAK
,
TELL
.
Note:
In Acts 3:24 some mss. have
(see
FORESHEW
); the most authentic
have
,
RV
, “told.”
FOREWARN