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used with
, “about,” of a period of silence in Heaven after the opening of the 7th seal,
a period corresponding to the time customarily spent in silent worship in the Temple
during the burning of incense.¶
HOUSE
A. Nouns.
1.
(
*
, 3624) denotes (a) “a house, a dwelling,” e.g., Matt. 9:6, 7; 11:8; it is
used of the Tabernacle, as the House of God, Matt. 12:4, and the Temple similarly, e.g.,
Matt. 21:13; Luke 11:51,
KJV
, “temple,”
RV
, “sanctuary”; John 2:16, 17; called by the
Lord “your house” in Matt. 23:38 and Luke 13:35 (some take this as the city of
Jerusalem); metaphorically of Israel as God’s house, Heb. 3:2, 5, where “his house” is not
Moses’, but God’s; of believers, similarly, v. 6, where Christ is spoken of as “over God’s
House” (the word “own” is rightly omitted in the
RV
); Heb. 10:21; 1 Pet. 2:5; 4:17; of the
body, Matt. 12:44; Luke 11:24; (b) by metonymy, of the members of a household or
family, e.g., Luke 10:5; Acts 7:10; 11:14; 1 Tim. 3:4, 5, 12; 2 Tim. 1:16; 4:19,
RV
(
KJV
,
“household”); Titus 1:11 (plural); of a local church, 1 Tim. 3:15; of the descendants of
Jacob (Israel) and David, e.g., Matt. 10:6; Luke 1:27, 33; Acts 2:36; 7:42. See
HOME
, A,
No. 1.
Note
(1),
HOUSEHOLD
.
2.
(
*
&
, 3614), is akin to No. 1, and used much in the same way; in Attic law
denoted the whole estate,
stood for the dwelling only; this distinction was
largely lost in later Greek. In the NT it denotes (a) “a house, a dwelling,” e.g., Matt. 2:11;
5:15; 7:24-27; 2 Tim. 2:20; 2 John 10; it is not used of the Tabernacle or the Temple, as
in the case of No. 1; (b) metaphorically, the heavenly abode, spoken of by the Lord as
“My Father’s house,” John 14:2, the eternal dwelling place of believers; the body as the
dwelling place of the soul, 2 Cor. 5:1; similarly the resurrection body of believers (
!
);
property, e.g., Mark 12:40; by metonymy, the inhabitants of a house, a household, e.g.,
Matt. 12:25; John 4:53; 1 Cor. 16:15. See
HOUSEHOLD
.
B. Adverb.
(
&
, 3832) denotes “with all the house,” Acts 16:34, i.e., “the
household.Ӧ
Notes:
(1) In 2 Cor. 5:2,
, “a habitation” (see
RV
) is translated “house” in
the
KJV
, of the resurrection body (cf.
in the preceding verse; see above). (2) In 1
Tim. 5:13, “from house to house” is, lit., “the houses.” (3) For “in every house,” Acts
5:42 (cf. 2:46), see
HOME
. (4) For “them which are of the house,” 1 Cor. 1:11,
KJV
, see
HOUSEHOLD
.
For
GOODMAN of the HOUSE
see
HOUSEHOLDER
For
MASTER of the HOUSE
see
HOUSEHOLDER
HOUSEHOLD
A. Nouns.
1.
(
*
, 3624) is translated “household” in Acts 16:15; 1 Cor. 1:16; in the
KJV
of 2 Tim. 4:19 (
RV
, “house”). See
HOUSE
, No. 1.
2.
(
*
&
, 3614) is translated “household” in Phil. 4:22. See
HOUSE
, No. 2.