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be” (
KJV
, “meant”). In Acts 2:12 the verb “to be” is preceded by
, “to will,” and the
phrase is translated “(what) meaneth (this),” lit., “(what) does (this) will to be?” in 17:20,
lit., “(what do these things) will to be?”
2.
(
!
, 3004), “to say,” sometimes has the significance of “meaning”
something; so the
RV
in 1 Cor. 1:12;
KJV
, “(this) I say.”
Notes:
(1) In Acts 27:2,
KJV
,
, “to be about to,” is translated “meaning” (
RV
,
“was about to”), with reference to the ship (according to the best mss.). (2) In Acts 21:13,
KJV
,
, “to do,” is translated “(what) mean ye (to weep)”;
RV
, “(what) do ye,
(weeping).” (3) The abbreviated original in 2 Cor. 8:13 is rendered by the italicized
additions,
KJV
, “
9
(not),”
RV
, “
9
(not)
.” Cf. the
RV
italics in Mark 6:2.
MEANING
$
(1411),“power, force,” is used of the significance or force of what is spoken,
1 Cor. 14:11. See
MIGHT
,
POWER
.
MEANS (by all, by any, etc.)
1.
(
1
, 3843), an adverb from
, “all,” denoting “wholly, altogether,
entirely,” is used in 1 Cor. 9:22, “by all means.” When the apostle says, “I am become all
things to all men, that I may by all means save some,” he is simply speaking of his
accommodating himself to various human conditions consistently with fidelity to the
truth, with no unscriptural compliance with men, but in the exercise of self denial; “by all
means” refers to the preceding context from v. 18, and stresses his desire to be used in the
salvation of some. It is found in Acts 21:22,
RV
, “certainly.” Some mss. have the word in
this sense in Acts 18:21 (
KJV
). See
ALTOGETHER
, B, No. 1.
2.
(
L 0
, 4458), “at all, somehow, in any way,” is used after the conjunction (a)
, “if,” meaning “if by any means,” e.g., Acts 27:12; Rom. 1:10; 11:14; Phil. 3:11; (b)
, “lest, lest by any means,” e.g., 1 Cor. 8:9; 9:27; 2 Cor. 2:7,
RV
(
KJV
, “perhaps”); 9:4,
RV
(
KJV
, “haply”); 11:3; 12:20,
RV
; Gal. 2:2; 4:11,
RV
(
KJV
, “lest”); ess. 3:5 (
KJV
, “lest by
some means”).
3. (
#
, 1537), “out of, from, by,” suggesting “the source from which something is
done,” is sometimes rendered “by means of,” e.g., Luke 16:9,
RV
, “by means of (the
mammon of unrighteousness)”;
KJV
, “of”; 2 Cor. 1:11, “by (the) means of (many).”
4.
(
1
, 1223), “by, by means of,” when followed by the genitive case, is
instrumental, e.g., 2 Pet. 3:6,
RV
, “by which means” (
KJV
, “whereby”).
5.
( , 4459), an interrogative adverb (different from No. 2), “how, in what
way,” Luke 8:36,
KJV
, “by what means,”
RV
, “how”; so John 9:21; cf.
Note
(4) below.
Notes:
(1) In Luke 5:18 the
KJV
adds the word “
” in italics. (2) The word
, “a manner, way,” is sometimes used in a prepositional phrase, e.g., 2 Thess. 2:3,
KJV
, “by any means,”
RV
, “in any wise,” lit., “in any manner”; 2 Th 3:16,
KJV
, “by all
means,”
RV
, “in all ways,” lit., “in every manner.” (3) The double negative
$
, i.e.,
“no not,” “not at all,” is translated “by no means,” Matt. 5:26; in Luke 10:19, “by any