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19:42, the adverbial phrase
, “at least,” is found in some mss.; the
RV
follows those
in which it is absent. (3) In 1 Cor. 9:2,
KJV
, the phrase
is rendered “doubtless;”
RV
, “at least.” (4) In Acts 5:15, the phrase
(for
, “even if”) denotes “at the
least.”
LEATHER, LEATHERN
(
$ 1
, 1193) denotes “of skin, leather” (from
, “skin, hide of
beasts,” akin to
, “to flay”; whence Eng., “derm,” “dermal,” “dermatology”); it is
translated “leather” in Matt. 3:4, of John the Baptist’s girdle; in Mark 1:6,
RV
(
KJV
, “of a
skin”). See
SKIN
.¶
LEAVE, LEFT
(a)
9
7
2
7
!
1.
(
&
, 863),
, “from,” and
, “to send,” has three chief
meanings, (a) “to send forth, let go, forgive”; (b) “to let, suffer, permit”; (c) “to leave,
leave alone, forsake, neglect.” It is translated by the verb “to leave” (c), in Matt. 4:11;
4:20, 22, and parallel passages; 5:24; 8:15, and parallel passages; 8:22,
RV
, “leave (the
dead),”
KJV
, “let,” and the parallel passage; 13:36,
RV
, “left (the multitude),”
KJV
, “sent
… away”; 18:12; 19:27, and parallel passages,
RV
, “we have left” (
KJV
, “we have
forsaken”), so v. 29; 22:22, 25; 23:23,
RV
, “have left undone” (
KJV
, “have omitted,” in the
1st part, “leave undone” in the second); 23:38, and the parallel passage; 24:2, 40, 41, and
parallel passages; 26:56,
RV
, “left”; Mark 1:18, “left”; 1:31; 7:8,
RV
, “ye leave”; 8:13;
10:28, 29; 12:12, 19-22; 13:34; Luke 10:30; 11:42 (in some mss.); Luke 12:39,
RV
“have
left,”
KJV
“have suffered” (No. 9 in Matt. 24:43); John 4:3, 28, 52; 8:29; 10:12; 14:18,
27; 16:28, 32; Rom. 1:27; 1 Cor. 7:11,
RV
, “leave” (
KJV
“put away”); 7:13 (
KJV
and
RV
);
Heb. 2:8; 6:1; Rev. 2:4. See
FORGIVE
.
2.
(
&
, 447),
, “back” and
, “to send,” denotes “to let go, loosen,
forbear”; it is translated “I will (never) leave (thee)” in Heb. 13:5. See
FORBEAR
.
3.
(
&
, 2641), “to leave behind” (
, “down,”
, “to leave”),
is everywhere rendered by the verb “to leave” except in the following: the
KJV
of Rom.
11:4, “I have reserved” (
RV
, “I have left”); Heb. 11:27, “he forsook”; 2 Pet. 2:15,
KJV
,
“have forsaken,”
RV
, “forsaking.” See
FORSAKE
,
RESERVE
.
4.
(
&
, 620), “to leave behind” ( , “from”), is used (a) in the active
voice, of “leaving” behind a cloak, 2 Tim. 4:3; a person, 2 Tim. 4:20; of “abandoning” a
principality (by angels), Jude 6,
RV
; (b) in the passive voice, “to be reserved, to remain,”
Heb. 4:6, 9; 10:26. See
REMAIN
, No. 3.¶ In the papyri it is used as a technical term in
wills (Moulton and Milligan,
F !
).
5.
(
#
&
, 1459), lit., “to leave behind in” ( , “in,” and No. 3),
signifies (a) “to leave behind,” Rom. 9:29, “a seed”; (b) “to abandon, forsake,” translated
by the verb “to leave” in Acts 2:27, 31 (in some mss., No. 3) of the soul of Christ; in the
following, by the verb “to forsake,” Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34; 2 Cor. 4:9; 2 Tim. 4:10, 16;
Heb. 1O:25; 13:5 (see No. 2 in the same v.). See
FORSAKE
.¶