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“(on the right hand and) on the left,” lit., “(of the weapons … the right and) the left”; (b)
in the phrase “on the left,” formed by
@
(for ), “from,” and the genitive plural of this
adjective, Mark 10:37 (some mss. have No. 2 here); Luke 23:33.¶
2.
$ $
(
'0
, 2176), lit., “of good name,” or “omen” (
$
, “well,”
,
“a name”), a word adopted to avoid the ill-omen atvaching to the “left” (omens from the
“left” being unlucky, but a good name being desired for them, cf.
, lit., “better of
two,” euphemistic for the ill-omened
and
; cf, too, the Eng., “sinister,” from
the Latin word meaning “left”), is used euphemistically for No. 1, either (a) simply as an
adjective in Rev. 10:2, of the “left” foot; in Acts 21:3, “on the left” (lit., “left”); or (b)
with the preposition
@
(for ), signifying “on the left hand,” Matt. 20:21, 23; 25:33, 41;
27:38; Mark 10:40 (for v. 37, in some mss., see No. 1); 15:27.¶
LEG
(
!
, 4628), “the leg from the hip downwards,” is used only of the breaking
of the “legs” of the crucified malefactors, to hasten their death, John 19:31-33 (a
customary act, not carried out in the case of Christ, in fulfillment of Exod. 12:46; Num.
9:12). The practice was known as
(from
, “to strike”), or, in Latin,
$ 7 $
(from
$
, “a leg,” and
7
, “to break”).¶
LEGION
(
0
, 3003), otherwise spelled
, “a legion,” occurs in Matt. 26:53, of
angels; in Mark 5:9, 15, and Luke 8:30, of demons. Among the Romans a “legion” was
primarily a chosen ( , “to choose”) body of soldiers divided into ten cohorts, and
numbering from 4,200 to 6,000 men (Gk.
, see
BAND
). In the time of our Lord it
formed a complete army of infantry and cavalry, of upwards of 5,000 men. The “legions”
were not brought into Judea till the outbreak of the Jewish war (A.D. 66), as they were
previously employed in the frontier provinces of the Empire. Accordingly in its NT use
the word has its other and more general significance “of a large number.”¶
LEISURE (to have)
$
(
'
$!
, 2119), “to have leisure or opportunity” (
$
, “well,”
, “a
time or season”), is translated “they had … leisure” in Mark 6:31; in Acts 17:21, “spent
their time” (
RV
, marg., “had leisure for”); in 1 Cor. 16:12, “he shall have opportunity,”
RV
(
KJV
, “… convenient time”). See
CONVENIENT
,
OPPORTUNITY
,
SPEND
.¶ This verb differs
from
, “to have leisure”; it stresses the opportunity of doing something, whereas
stresses the “leisure” for engaging in it, e.g., 1 Cor. 7:5, “(that) ye may give
yourselves to.”
LEND, LENDER
A. Verbs.