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priest, accompanied by the waving of palm and willow branches. “The last day of the
feast” was called “the great Hosanna”; the boughs also were called “hosannas.”¶
HOSPITALITY
A. Noun.
@
(
&
, 5381), “love of strangers” (
, “loving,”
@
, “a
stranger”), is used in Rom. 12:13; Heb. 13:2, lit. “(be not forgetful of) hospitality. See
ENTERTAIN
,
Note
.¶
B. Adjective.
@
(
, 5382), “hospitable,” occurs in 1 Tim. 3:2; Titus 1:8; 1 Pet.
4:9.¶
Note:
For
@
, 1 Tim. 5:10, see
STRANGER
, B.¶
HOST (of guests)
1.
@
(
!
, 3581), in addition to the meaning “stranger,” mentioned above under
A, denotes one or other of the parties bound by ties of hospitality, (a) “the guest” (not in
the NT), (b) “the host,” Rom. 16:23.¶
2.
$
(
"
, 3830), lit., “one who receives all” (
, “all,”
,
“to receive”), denotes “an innkeeper, host,” Luke 10:35.¶
HOST (of angels, etc.)
(
$ &
, 4756), “an army,” is used of angels, Luke 2:13; of stars, Acts 7:42;
some mss. have it instead of
, in 2 Cor. 10:4 (“warfare”).¶ Cf.
$
, “an
army.”
HOT
(
, 2200), “boiling hot” (from
, “to boil, be hot, fervent”; cf. Eng.,
“zest”), is used, metaphorically, in Rev. 3:15, 16.¶
HOUR
(
O$
, 5610), whence Lat.,
, Eng., “hour,” primarily denoted any time or
period, expecially a season. In the NT it is used to denote (a) “a part of the day,”
especially a twelfth part of day or night, an “hour,” e.g., Matt. 8:13; Acts 10:3, 9; 23:23;
Rev. 9:15; in 1 Cor. 15:30, “every hour” stands for “all the time”; in some passages it
expresses duration, e.g., Matt. 20:12; 26:40; Luke 22:59; inexactly, in such phrases as
“for a season,” John 5:35; 2 Cor. 7:8; “for an hour,” Gal. 2:5; “for a short season,” 1
Thess. 2:17,
RV
(
KJV
, “for a short time,” lit., “for the time of an hour”); (b) “a period
more or less extended,” e.g., 1 John 2:18, “it is the last hour,”
RV
; (C) “a definite point of
time,” e.g., Matt. 26:45, “the hour is at hand”; Luke 1:10; 10:21; 14:17, lit., “at the hour
of supper”; Acts 16:18; 22:13; Rev. 3:3; 11:13; 14:7; a point of time when an appointed
action is to begin, Rev. 14:15; in Rom. 13:11, “it is high time,” lit., “it is already an
hour,” indicating that a point of time has come later than would have been the case had
responsibility been realized. In 1 Cor. 4:11, it indicates a point of time previous to which
certain circumstances have existed.
Notes:
(1) In 1 Cor. 8:7,
KJV
, “unto this hour,” the phrase in the original is simply,
“until now,” as
RV
(2) In Rev. 8:1,
, “half an hour” (
, “half,” and
), is