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spiritual bodies of believers when raised or changed at the return of the Lord. See
HOUSE
.¶
2.
(
)$
, 2732), (
, “down,” used intensively, and No. 1),
implying more permanency than No. 1, is used in Eph. 2:22 of the church as the dwelling
place of the Holy Spirit; in Rev. 18:2 of Babylon, figuratively, as the dwelling place of
demons.¶
3.
(
&
, 2733), “a settlement, colony, dwelling” (
, and
, see
above), is used in Acts 17:26, of the localities divinely appointed as the dwelling places
of the nations.¶
4.
$
(
+
, 1886), “a farm, a dwelling” ( , “upon,”
$
, “a place in which
to pass the night, a country house, cottage or cabin, a fold”), is used in Acts 1:20 of the
habitation of Judas.¶
5.
(
)
, 4633), akin to
, “to dwell in a tent or tabernacle,” is rendered
“habitations” in Luke 16:9,
KJV
(
RV
, “tabernacles”) of the eternal dwelling places of the
redeemed. See
TABERNACLE
.
6.
(
)
, 4638), “a booth,” or “tent pitched” (akin to No. 5), is used of
the Temple as God’s dwelling, as that which David desired to build, Acts 7:46 (
RV
,
“habitation,”
KJV
, “tabernacle”); metaphorically of the body as a temporary tabernacle, 2
Pet. 1:13, 14.¶ See
TABERNACLE
.
HADES
(
R
, 86), “the region of departed spirits of the lost” (but including the blessed
dead in periods preceding the ascension of Christ). It has been thought by some that the
word etymologically meant “the unseen” (from , negative, and
, “to see”), but this
derivation is questionable; a more probable derivation is from
, signifying “all-
receiving.” It corresponds to “Sheol” in the OT. In the
KJV
of the OT and NT; it has been
unhappily rendered “hell,” e.g., Ps. 16:10; or “the grave,” e.g., Gen. 37:35; or “the pit,”
Num. 16:30, 33; in the NT the revisers have always used the rendering “hades”; in the
OT, they have not been uniform in the translation, e.g. in Isa. 14:15 “hell” (marg.,
“Sheol”); usually they have “Sheol” in the text and “the grave” in the margin. It never
denotes the grave, nor is it the permanent region of the lost; in point of time it is, for such,
intermediate between decease and the doom of Gehenna. For the condition, see Luke
16:23-31.
The word is used four times in the Gospels, and always by the Lord, Matt. 11:23;
16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; it is used with reference to the soul of Christ, Acts 2:27, 31;
Christ declares that He has the keys of it, Rev. 1:18; in Rev. 6:8 it is personified, with the
signification of the temporary destiny of the doomed; it is to give up those who are
therein, 20:13, and is to be cast into the lake of fire, v. 14.¶
¶ Indicates that all the NT occurrences of the Greek word under consideration are
mentioned under the heading or sub-heading.