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A. Nouns.
1.
(
#$ &
, 2039) signifies (a) “work, working, performance” (from
,
“work”), Eph. 4:19; in Luke 12:58, “diligence”; (b) “business or gain got by work,” Acts
16:16, 19; in 19:24, 25, the
RV
adheres to the meaning “business” (
KJV
, “gain” and
“craft”). See
CRAFT
,
DILIGENCE
.¶
2.
(
$
, 4200) primarily denotes “a providing” (akin to
, “to
procure”), then, “a means of gain,” 1 Tim. 6:5 (
RV
, “a way of gain”); 6:6.¶
3.
(
!$
, 2771), “gain” (akin to
, see below), occurs in Phil. 1:21;
3:7; Titus 1:11. See
LUCRE
.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
$ &
, 2770), akin to A, No. 3, signifies (I), literally, (a) “to gain
something,” Matt. 16:26; 25:16 (in the best mss.), 17, 20, 22; Mark 8:36; Luke 9:25; (b)
“to get gain, make a profit,” Jas. 4:13; (II), metaphorically, (a) “to win persons,” said (1)
of “gaining” an offending brother who by being told privately of his offense, and by
accepting the representations, is won from alienation and from the consequences of his
fault, Matt. 18:15; (2) of winning souls into the kingdom of God by the gospel, 1 Cor.
9:19, 20 (twice), 21, 22, or by godly conduct, 1 Pet. 3:1 (
RV
, “gained”); (3) of so
practically appropriating Christ to oneself that He becomes the dominating power in and
over one’s whole being and circumstances, Phil. 3:8 (
RV
, “gain”); (b) “to gain things,”
said of getting injury and loss, Acts 27:21,
RV
, “gotten.” See
GET
.¶
2.
$
(
$
"
, 1281) signifies “to gain by trading,” Luke
19:15 (from
, “through,” used intensively, and
$
, “to busy oneself, to be
engaged in business”).¶
3.
(
$ !
, 4046), “to save for oneself, gain,” is in the middle voice
in the best mss. in Luke 17:33,
RV
, gain. See
PURCHASE
.
Notes:
(1) In Luke 19:16,
KJV
,
, “to work out in addition,” or “to earn
in addition,” is translated “gained” (
RV
, “made”); in v. 18 the verb
, “to make,” is
translated in the same way, the English verb “make” standing both for “earning” and for
“producing.” (2) In 2 Cor. 12:17, 18,
, “to claim unduly, to overreach,” is
translated “make a gain of,”
KJV
(
RV
, “take advantage of”). (3) For
, Rev.
18:17,
RV
, see
TRADE
. (4) In Acts 25:9,
RV
,
middle voice, “to lay up for
oneself,” is rendered “to gain.”
GAINSAY, GAINSAYER, GAINSAYING
A. Verbs.
1.
(
&
, 483), “to contradict, oppose,” lit., “say against,” is translated
“gainsaying” in Rom. 10:21 and Titus 2:9,
RV
(
KJV
, “answering again”), of servants in
regard to masters; in Titus 1:9 “gainsayers.” Moulton and Milligan (
F !
) illustrate
¶ Indicates that all the NT occurrences of the Greek word under consideration are
mentioned under the heading or sub-heading.