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3.
(
1
, 3171), from
(
GREAT
, No. 1), is used of rejoicing, Phil.
4:10.¶
4.
(
$1
, 5479), “joy,” is used in the dative case adverbially with the verb
, “to rejoice,” in John 3:29, “rejoiceth greatly,” lit., “rejoiceth with joy.”
Notes:
(1) For
,
RV
, “exceedingly,” in Matt. 27:54 and Acts 6:7, see
EXCEED
,
B, No. 2. (2) In the following the
RV
omits “greatly,” as the verbs are adequately
translated without, Phil. 1:8; 1 Thess. 3:6; 2 Tim. 1:4. In the following the
RV
adds
“greatly” to express the fuller force of the verb, Luke 1:29; Acts 16:34; 1 Pet. 1:8. (3) In
1 Pet. 1:6, “ye greatly rejoice,” the adverb is not separately expressed, but is incor
porated in the rendering of the verb
, “to rejoice much, to exult.”
GREATNESS
1.
(
!
, 3174), akin to
(see GREAT, No. 1), is said of the power
of God, in Eph. 1:19.¶
2.
$
(
% $ )
, 5236) denotes “exceeding greatness,” 2 Cor. 4:7; 12:7. see
EXCEL
, B, No. 1.
For
GREEDILY
see
RUN
, No. 9
For
GREEDINESS
see
COVETOUSNESS
, B, No. 3
For
GREEDY
see
LUCRE
GREEN
1.
(
$
, 5515), akin to
, “tender foliage” (cf. the name “Chloe,” 1
Cor. 1:11, and Eng., “chlorine”), denotes (a) “pale green,” the color of young grass, Mark
6:39; Rev. 8:7; 9:4, “green thing”; hence, (b) “pale,” Rev. 6:8, the color of the horse
whose rider’s name is Death. See
PALE
.¶
2.
$
(
% $
, 5200) denotes “wet, moist” (the opposite of
@
, “dry”); said of
wood, sappy, “green,” Luke 23:31, i.e., if they thus by the fire of their wrath treated
Christ, the guiltless, holy, the fruitful, what would be the fate of the perpetrators, who
were like the dry wood, exposed to the fire of divine wrath.¶
GREET, GREETING
A. Verbs.
1.
(
1
, 782) signifies “to greet welcome,” or “salute.” In the
KJV
it
is chiefly rendered by either of the verbs “to greet” or “to salute.” “There is little doubt
that the revisers have done wisely in giving ‘salute’ … in the passages where
KJV
has
‘greet.’ For the cursory reader is sure to imagine a difference of Greek and of meaning
when he finds, e.g., in Phil. 4:21, ‘Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which
are with me greet you,’ or in 3 John 14, ‘Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by
name’” (Hastings,
0
4 !
). In Acts 25:13 the meaning virtually is “to pay his respects
to.”
In two passages the renderings vary otherwise; in Acts 20:1, of bidding farewell,
KJV
,
“embraced them,”
RV
, “took leave of them,” or, as Ramsay translates it, “bade them
farewell”; in Heb. 11:13, of welcoming promises,
KJV
, “embraced,”
RV
, “greeted.”