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may turn,”
RV
; cf. Rom. 6:6; 11:10; 1 Cor. 10:13; Phil. 3:10, “that I may know”; Jas.
5:17.
(3) The phrases “may be,” “might be,” are frequently the rendering of the verb “to
be,” in the subjunctive or optative moods, preceded by a conjunction introducing a
condition, or expressing a wish or purpose, e.g., Matt. 6:4; John 14:3; 17:11. Sometimes
the phrase translates simply the infinitive mood of the verb
, “to be,” e.g., Luke 8:38,
lit., “to be (with Him)”; so the
RV
in 2 Cor. 5:9; in 2 Cor. 9:5, “that (the same) might be,”
lit., “(the same) to be.”
(4) In Heb. 7:9 the phrase
(“so”)
(“a word”)
(“to say”), i.e., lit., “so to
say a word” is an idiom, translated in the
RV
, “so to say” (
KJV
, “if I may so say”); the
Eng. equivalent is “one might almost say.”
ME
Notes:
(1) The pronoun, whether alone or with some English preposition, e.g., “of, to,
for, in,” translates one or other of the oblique cases of
, “I.” (2) In Philem. 13 the
reflexive pronoun
$
, “myself,” is translated “me,” governed by the preposition
, with, lit., “with myself” (3) In Titus 1:3, for the
KJV
, “is committed unto me,” the
RV
has “I was intrusted.” (4) In Phil. 2:23, “how it will go with me,” is, lit., “the (things)
concerning me.” (5) The phrase
, “in me,” is used (a) instrumentally ( ,
instrumental, “by” or “through”), e.g., 2 Cor. 13:3; (b) subjectively, “within me,” e.g.,
Gal. 2:20; (c) objectively, “in my case,” e.g., 1 Cor. 9:15; 14:11; Gal. 1:16, 24; 1 Tim.
1:16. (6) In Luke 22:19 the possessive pronoun
, “my,” is rendered “of Me,” lit.,
“(into) My (remembrance).”
MEAL
$
(
/ $
, 224), “meal” (akin to
$
, “to grind,” and therefore, lit., “what is
ground”), occurs in Matt. 13:33; Luke 13:21.¶
MEAN (Adjective)
(
/
, 767), lit., “without mark” ( , negative,
, “a mark”), i.e.,
“undistinguished, obscure,” was applied by the apostle Paul negatively, to his native city,
Tarsus, Acts 21:39.¶ Moulton and Milligan (
F !
) have a note as follows: “This word
occurs perpetually in the papyri to denote a man who is ‘not distinguished’ from his
neighbors by the convenient scars on eyebrow or arm or right shin, which identify so
many individuals in formal documents.” Deissmann suggests that the word may have
been the technical term for “uncircumcised,” among the Greek Egyptians. In another
papyrus document a pair of silver bracelets are described as of “unstamped” (
)
silver.
MEAN (Verb)
1.
(
* &
, 1510), “to be,” in certain of its forms, has an explicative force,
signifying “to denote, to import,” e.g., Matt. 9:13; 12:7, “(what this) meaneth,” lit. “(what
this) is”; Luke 18:36, “meant” (lit., “might be”); Acts 10:17, “might mean,”
RV
(lit.,
“might be”); in Luke 15:26 the
RV
keeps to the verb “to be,” “(what these things) might