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Acts 11:21; 13:11; Heb. 1:10; 2:7; 10:31; (c) by metonymy, for power, e.g., Matt. 17:22;
Luke 24:7; John 10:39; Acts 12:11.
AT HAND
A. Adverb.
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, 1451), “near, nigh,” frequently rendered “at hand,” is used (a) of place,
e.g., of the Lord’s sepulchre, John 19:42, “nigh at hand”; (b) of time, e.g., Matt. 26:18;
Luke 21:30, 31,
RV
, “nigh,”
KJV
, “nigh at hand”; in Phil. 4:5, “the Lord is at hand,” it is
possible to regard the meaning as that either of (a) or (b); the following reasons may point
to (b): (1) the subject of the preceding context has been the return of Christ, 3:20, 21; (2)
the phrase is a translation of the Aramaic “Maranatha,” 1 Cor. 16:22, a Christian
watchword, and the use of the title “the Lord” is appropriate; (3) the similar use of the
adverb in Rev. 1:3 and 22:10; (4) the similar use of the corresponding verb (see B) in
Rom. 13:12; Heb. 10:25, “drawing nigh,”
RV
; Jas. 5:8; cf. 1 Pet. 4:7. See
NEAR
,
NIGH
,
READY
.
B. Verb.
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APPROACH
, A.
Notes:
(1) In 2 Thess. 2:2,
KJV
, the verb
, “to be present” ( , “in,”
,
“to cause to stand”), is wrongly translated “is at hand”; the
RV
correctly renders it, “is
(now) present”; the apostle is counteracting the error of the supposition that “the Day of
the Lord” (
RV
), a period of divine and retributive judgments upon the world, had already
begun.
(2) In 2 Tim. 4:6,
KJV
, the verb
, “to stand by, to come to or upon” ( ,
“upon,”
, “to make to stand”), is rendered “is at hand,” of the apostle’s departure
from this life; the
RV
“is come” represent the vivid force of the statement, expressing
suddenness or imminence.
HAND (lead by the)
A. Adjective.
(
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, “the hand,”
, “to
lead”), is used as a noun (plural) in Acts 13:11, “some to lead him by the hand.”¶
B. Verb.
(
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, 5496), “to lead by the hand,” is used in Acts 9:8; 22:11.¶
HANDED DOWN
(
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, 3970), an adjective, denoting “handed down from
one’s fathers,” is used in 1 Pet. 1:18,
RV
, for
KJV
, “
2
by tradition from your
fathers” (from
, “a father,” and
, “to hand down”).¶
HAND (with one’s own)
$
(
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, 849), a noun (
$
, “self,”
, “the hand”), is used in the
plural in Acts 27:19, “with their own hands.”¶
HAND (take in)
(
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, 2021), “to put the hand to” ( , “to,”
, “the hand”), is
rendered “have taken in hand” in Luke 1:1. See
TAKE
.