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midday,” “at midnight” (see
MIDDAY
,
MIDNIGHT
, above).
Notes:
"
is used
adverbially, in prepositional phrases, (a)
., e.g., 1 Cor. 6:5, “between”; Matt. 13:25,
“among”; Rev. 7:17, “in the midst”; (b)
!
, e.g., Luke 4:30; 17:11, “through the
midst”; (c)
!
, Luke 10:3,
RV
, “in the midst,”
KJV
, “among”; so 22:27; 1 Thess. 2:7;
with the article after , e.g., Matt. 14:6,
RV
, “in the midst,”
KJV
, “before”; (d)
!
,
Mark 14:60, “in the midst”; with the article, e.g., Mark 3:3, “forth” (lit., “into the midst”);
(e)
!
, “out of the way,” lit., “out of the midst,” Col. 2:14; 2 Thess. 2:7, where,
however, removal is not necessarily in view; there is no accompanying verb signifying
removal, as in each of the other occurrences of the phrase; with the article, e.g., 1 Cor.
5:2; 2 Cor. 6:17; see
WAY
; (f)
!
, Acts 27:27, “about mid(night).”
(2) The neuter,
, is used adverbially in Matt. 14:24, in some mss., “in the midst
(of the waves)”; in Phil. 2:15 in the best mss. (where some mss. have
!H
). (3) For
Rev. 8:13, see
HEAVEN
, A, No. 2.
B. Verb.
(
, 3322), “to be in the middle,” is used of time in John 7:14, translated
“when it was … the midst (of the feast),” lit., “(the feast) being in the middle.”¶
MIGHT (Noun), MIGHTY, MIGHTILY, MIGHTIER
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
"
, 1411), “power,” (a) used relatively, denotes “inherent ability,
capability, ability to perform anything,” e.g., Matt. 25:15, “ability”; Acts 3:12, “power”;
2 Thess. 1:7,
RV
, “(angels) of His power” (
KJV
, “mighty”); Heb. 11:11,
RV
, “power” (
KJV
,
“strength”); see
ABILITY
; (b) used absolutely, denotes (1) “power to work, to carry
something into effect,” e.g., Luke 24:49; (2) “power in action,” e.g., Rom. 1:16; 1 Cor.
1:18; it is translated “might” in the
KJV
of Eph. 1:21 (
RV
, “power”); so 3:16; Col. 1:11
(1st clause); 2 Pet. 2:11; in Rom. 15:19,
KJV
, this noun is rendered “mighty”;
RV
, “(in the)
power of signs.” The
RV
consistently avoids the rendering “might” for
$ ;
the usual
rendering is “power.” Under this heading comes the rendering “mighty works,” e.g.,
Matt. 7:22,
RV
(
KJV
, “wonderful works”); 11:20-23; singular number in Mark 6:5; in
Matt. 14:2 and Mark 6:14 the
RV
has “powers”; in 2 Cor. 12:12,
RV
,“mighty works” (
KJV
,
“mighty deeds”). See
MIRACLE
, especially
POWER
.
: & 4$
, “power,” is to be distinguished from
@ $
, “the right to exercise
power.” See
DOMINION
,
Note
.
2.
$
(
* "
, 2479) denotes “might, strength, power,” (a) inherent and in action as
used of God, Eph. 1:19,
RV
, “(the strength,
, of His) might,”
KJV
, “(His mighty)
power,” i.e., power (over external things) exercised by strength; Eph. 6:10, “of His
might”; 2 Thess. 1:9,
RV
, “(from the glory) of His might” (
KJV
“power”); Rev. 5:12,
RV
,
“might” (
KJV
, “strength”); 7:12, “might”; (b) as an endowment, said (1) of angels, 2 Pet.
2:11; here the order is No. 2 and No. 1,
RV
, “might and power,” which better expresses
the distinction than the
KJV
, “power and might”; in some mss. in Rev. 18:2 it is said of
the voice of an angel [see E, (c)]; the most authentic mss. have the adjective
$
,