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3.
(
5
, 2392), akin to A, No. 2, stresses the process as reaching completion,
Luke 13:32, “cures,” of the acts of Christ in the days of His flesh; Acts 4:22, 30, “to
heal,” lit. ‘unto healing.’¶
HEALTH (to be in)
$
(
% &
, 5198) denotes “to be healthy, sound, in good health” (Eng.,
“hygiene”), rendered “mayest be in health,” in 3 John 2; rendered “safe and sound” in
Luke 15:27. See
SAFE
, D, No. 2,
SOUND
,
WHOLE
, B, No. 1.
Note:
In Acts 27:34,
, “salvation, safety,” is translated “health” in the
KJV
; the
RV
, gives the right meaning, “safety.”
HEAP (to)
1.
$
(
$ "
, 4987), “to heap one thing on another,” is said of “heaping” coals
of fire on the head, Rom. 12:20 (for the meaning see
COALS
); in 2 Tim. 3:6 it is used
metaphorically of women “laden” (or overwhelmed) with sins. See
LADEN
.¶ In the Sept.,
Prov. 25:22.¶
2.
$
(
# $ "
, 2002), “to heap upon” or “together” ( , “upon,” and No.
1), is used metaphorically in 2 Tim. 4:3 of appropriating a number of teachers to suit the
liking of those who do so. The reference may be to those who, like the Athenians, run
about to hear and follow those who proclaim new ideas of their own invention.
HEAR, HEARING
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
"
, 191), the usual word denoting “to hear,” is used (a) intransitively,
e.g., Matt. 11:15; Mark 4:23; (b) transitively when the object is expressed, sometimes in
the accusative case, sometimes in the genitive. Thus in Acts 9:7, “hearing the voice,” the
noun “voice” is in the partitive genitive case [i.e., hearing (something) of], whereas in
22:9, “they heard not the voice,” the construction is with the accusative. This removes the
idea of any contradiction. The former indicates a “hearing” of the sound, the latter
indicates the meaning or message of the voice (this they did not hear). “The former
denotes the sensational perception, the latter (the accusative case) the thing perceived”
(Cremer). In John 5:25, 28, the genitive case is used, indicating a “sensational
perception” that the Lord’s voice is sounding; in 3:8, of “hearing” the wind, the
accusative is used, stressing “the thing perceived.”
That God “hears” prayer signifies that He answers prayer, e.g., John 9:31; 1 John
5:14, 15. Sometimes the verb is used with
(“from beside”), e.g., John 1:40, “one of
the two which heard John speak,” lit., “heard from beside John,” suggesting that he stood
beside him; in John 8:26, 40, indicating the intimate fellowship of the Son with the
Father; the same construction is used in Acts 10:22 and 2 Tim. 2:2, in the latter case, of
the intimacy between Paul and Timothy. See
HEARKEN
.
2.
$
(
*
"
, 1522), “to listen to” (
, to, and No. 1), has two meanings,
(a) “to hear and to obey,” 1 Cor. 14:21, “they will not hear”; (b) “to hear so as to
answer,” of God’s answer to prayer, Matt. 6:7; Luke 1:13; Acts 10:31; Heb. 5:7.¶