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1.
(
1
, 528), “to go to meet, to meet” ( , “from,”
, “to meet
with, come face to face with”), is used in Mark 14:13 and Luke 17:12. Some mss. have
this verb for No. 3 in Matt. 28:9; Mark 5:2; Luke 14:31; John 4:51; Acts 16:16.¶
2.
$
(
1
, 4876), “to meet with,” lit., “to meet together with” (
$
,
“with,” and
, see No. 1), is used in Luke 9:37 (in v. 18, in some mss.); 22:10; Acts
10:25; Heb. 7:1, 10; metaphorically in Acts 20:22 (“shall befall”). See
BEFALL
.¶
3.
$
(
%
1
, 5221), “to go to meet, to meet,” has the same meaning as No.
1, and is used in Matt. 8:28; Luke 8:27; John 11:20, 30, and, in the most authentic mss.,
in Matt. 28:9; Mark 5:2; Luke 14:31 (of meeting in battle); John 4:51; 12:18 and Acts
16:16 (see No. 1).¶
4.
$
(
$
1
, 3909), “to happen to be near or present, to chance to
be by” (
, “beside, near,”
$
, “to happen”), occurs in Acts 17:17, “met with
(him).Ӧ
5.
$
(
1
, 4820), “to confer, to fall in with, meet with,” is translated
“met” in Acts 20:14,
RV
(
KJV
, “met with”), of the apostle Paul’s “meeting” his
companions at Assos. See
CONFER
, No. 3.
B. Nouns.
1.
$
(
% 1
, 5222), “a going to meet” (akin to A, No. 3), preceded by
the preposition
, “unto,” lit., “unto a meeting,” translated “to meet,” is found in John
12:13, and in the most authentic mss. in Matt. 8:34 (see No. 3) and 25:1 (see No. 2).¶
2.
(
1
, 529), “a meeting” (akin to A, No. 1), occurs in Matt. 25:6
(in some mss. in v. 1, and in 27:32, in some mss.); Acts 28:15; 1 Thess. 4:17. It is used in
the papyri of a newly arriving magistrate. “It seems that the special idea of the word was
the official welcome of a newly arrived dignitary” (Moulton,
5
! 5 !
Vol. 1,
p. 14).¶
3.
$
(
1
, 4877), “a coming to meet with” (akin to A, No. 2), is
found in some mss. in Matt. 8:34, of the coming out of all the people of a city to meet the
Lord (see No. 1).¶
MELODY (Verb)
(
1
, 5567), primarily “to twitch, twang,” then, “to play a stringed
instrument with the fingers,” and hence, in the Sept., “to sing with a harp, sing psalms,”
denotes, in the NT, “to sing a hymn, sing praise”; in Eph. 5:19, “making melody” (for the
preceding word
, see
SING
). Elsewhere it is rendered “sing,” Rom. 15:9; 1 Cor. 14:15;
in Jas. 5:13,
RV
, “let him sing praise” (
KJV
, “let him sing psalms”). See
SING
.¶
MELT
(
)
, 5080), “to melt, melt down,” is used in the passive voice in 2 Pet. 3:12,
“shall melt” (lit., “shall be melted”), of the elements (Eng., “thaw” is etymologically
connected).¶