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GUILELESS (WITHOUT GUILE)
1.
(
/
, 97), “without guile” ( , negative, and
, see
GUILE
), “pure,
unadulterated,” is used metaphorically of the teaching of the Word of God, 1 Pet. 2:2,
RV
.
It is used in the papyri writings of seed, corn, wheat, oil, wine, etc.¶
2.
(
/
, 172), lit., “without evil” ( , negative,
, “evil”), signifies
“simple, guileless,” Rom. 16:18, “simple,” of believers (perhaps = unsuspecting, or,
rather, innocent, free from admixture of evil); in Heb. 7:26,
RV
, “guileless” (
KJV
,
“harmless”), the character of Christ (more lit., “free from evil”).¶ Cf. Sept., Job 2:3; 8:20;
Prov. 1:4; 14:15. See
HARMLESS
.
GUILTLESS
(
&
, 338), “innocent, guiltless” ( , negative, , euphonic,
, “a
charge of crime”), is translated “blameless” in Matt. 12:5,
KJV
, “guiltless” in v. 7;
RV
,
“guiltless” in each place. See
BLAMELESS
.¶
GUILTY (Adjective)
(
+
, 1777), lit., “held in, bound by, liable to a charge or action at law”:
see
DANGER
.
Notes:
(1) In Rom. 3:19,
KJV
,
$
, “brought to trial,” lit., ‘under judgment’
(
$
, “under,”
, “justice”), is incorrectly rendered “guilty”;
RV
, “under the
judgement of.” See
JUDGMENT
. (2) In Matt. 23:18,
, to owe, to be indebted, to fail
in duty, be a delinquent,” is misrendered “guilty” in the
KJV
;
RV
, “a debtor.”
GULF
(
1
, 5490), akin to
, “to yawn” (Eng., “chasm”), is found in Luke
16:26.¶ In the Sept., 2 Sam. 18:17, two words are used with reference to Absalom’s body,
$
which signifies “a great pit,” and
, “a yawning abyss, or precipice,”
with a deep pit at the bottom, into which the body was cast.¶
GUSH OUT
$
, or
$
(
#
!
, 1632), a Hellenistic form of
, “to pour forth,”
is translated “gushed out” in Acts 1:18, of the bowels of Judas Iscariot. See
POUR
,
RUN
,
SHED
,
SPILL
.
H
For
HA
(
Mark 15:29
,
RV
) see
AH
HABITATION
1.
(
*
)$
, 3613), “a habitation” (from
, “an inhabitant,” and
, “a dwelling”), is used in Jude 6, of the heavenly region appointed by God as the
dwelling place of angels; in 2 Cor. 5:2,
RV
, “habitation,”
KJV
, “house,” figuratively of the