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2.
(
)
, 189), “hearing,” also denotes “the thing heard, a message”; in 1 Thess.
2:13, it is associated with
, “a word,” lit., “the word of hearing” (
RV
marg.),
RV
, “the
word of the message,”
KJV
, “the word … which ye heard”; so in Heb. 4:2,
RV
, “the word
of hearing” (
KJV
, “the word preached). See
HEARING
.
3.
$
(
)$
, 2782), “that which is proclaimed by a herald, a proclamation,
preaching,” is translated “the message” in Titus 1:3,
RV
(
KJV
, preaching). See
PREACHING
.
MESSENGER
1.
(
/
, 32), “a messenger, an angel, one sent,” is translated
“messenger,” of John the Baptist, Matt. 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 7:27; in the plural, of
John’s “messengers,” 7:24; of those whom Christ sent before Him when on His journey
to Jerusalem, 9:52; of Paul’s “thorn in the flesh,” “a messenger of Satan,” 2 Cor. 12:7; of
the spies as received by Rahab, Jas. 2:25. See
ANGEL
.
2.
(
, 652), “an apostle,” is translated “messengers” in 2 Cor. 8:23
regarding Titus and “the other brethren,” whom Paul describes to the church at Corinth as
“messengers of the churches,” in respect of offerings from those in Macedonia for the
needy in Judea; in Phil. 2:25, of Epaphroditus as the “messenger” of the church at
Philippi to the apostle in ministering to his need;
RV
marg. in each case, “apostle.” See
APOSTLE
.
For
METE
see
MEASURE
For
MID
see
MIDST
MIDDAY
Note:
In Acts 26:13, “at midday” translates the adjective
, “middle,” and the
noun
, “a day,” in a combined adverbial phrase. See
MIDST
.
For
MIDDLE
see
WALL
MIDNIGHT
$
(
"
, 3317), an adjective denoting “at, or of, midnight,” is
used as a noun in Mark 13:35; Luke 11:5; Acts 16:25; 20:7.¶
Note:
In Matt. 25:6 “at midnight” translates the adjective
, and noun
$@
,
“night,” in the combined adverbial phrase. In Acts 27:27 “about midnight” translates an
adverbial phrase consisting of
, “towards,” followed by
, “middle” and
$@
,
“night,” with the article, lit., “towards (the) middle of the night.” See
MIDST
.
MIDST
A. Adjective and Adverb.
(
!
, 3319), an adjective denoting “middle, in the middle or midst,” is used
in the following, in which the English requires a phrase, and the adjectival rendering must
be avoided: Luke 22:55, “Peter sat in the midst of them,” lit., “a middle one of (them)”;
Luke 23:45, of the rending of the veil “in the midst”; here the adjective idiomatically
belongs to the verb “was rent,” and is not to be taken literally, as if it meant “the middle
veil”; John 1:26, “in the midst of you (standeth One),”
RV
(lit., “a middle One”); Acts
1:18, where the necessity of avoiding the lit. rendering is obvious. Cf. the phrases “at