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3.
(
3$1
, 3708) (akin to
, “to know”), an aorist form used to supply that
tense of
, “to see,” is translated “to perceive” in Matt. 13:14; Mark 4:12; Acts
28:26; in Luke 9:47,
KJV
(
RV
, “saw”); in Acts 14:9,
KJV
, “perceiving” (
RV
, “seeing”). See
BEHOLD
, No. 1.
4.
(
$!
, 2334), “to be a spectator of, look at, discern,” is translated “to
perceive” in John 4:19 (indicating the woman’s earnest contemplation of the Lord); so
Acts 17:22; in John 12:19,
RV
, “behold” (
KJV
, “perceive ye”). See
BEHOLD
, No. 6.
5.
(
* 1
, 143), “to perceive, to notice, understand,” is used in
Luke 9:45,
RV
, “(that they should not) perceive,”
KJV
, “(that) they perceived … (not).”¶
6.
(
!
, 3539), “to perceive with the mind, to understand,” is translated “to
perceive” in Matt. 15:17,
RV
(
KJV
, “understand”); so 16:9, 11; John 12:40; Rom. 1:20;
Eph. 3:4; in Mark 7:18 and 8:17,
KJV
and
RV
, “perceive.” See
CONSIDER
, No. 4.
7.
(
!
, 2657), a strengthened form of No. 6, “to take note of,
consider carefully,” is translated “to perceive” in Luke 6:41,
KJV
(
RV
, “considerest”);
20:23; Acts 27:39,
RV
(
KJV
, “discovered”). See
BEHOLD
, No. 11.
8.
(
1
, 2638), “to lay hold of, apprehend, comprehend,” is
translated “to perceive” in Acts 4:13; 10:34. See
APPREHEND
, No. 1.
Notes:
(1) In Mark 12:28 the best mss. have
, “to know” (so
RV
), for
, “to
see, perceive” (
KJV
). (2) In Acts 8:23,
KJV
,
, “to see,” is translated “I perceive” (
RV
,
“I see”). (3) In 2 Cor. 7:8,
KJV
,
, “to look at, consider, see,” is translated “I perceive”
(
RV
, “I see”). (4) In Acts 23:29,
KJV
,
$
, “to find,” is translated “perceived” (
RV
,
“found”).
For
PERDITION
see
DESTRUCTION
, No. 1
PERFECT (Adjective and Verb), PERFECTLY
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
&
, 5049) signifies “having reached its end” (
), “finished,
complete perfect.” It is used (I) of persons, (a) primarily of physical development, then,
with ethical import, “fully grown, mature,” 1 Cor. 2:6; 14:20 (“men”; marg., “of full
age”); Eph. 4:13; Phil. 3:15; Col. 1:28; 4:12; in Heb. 5:14,
RV
, “fullgrown” (marg.,
“perfect”),
KJV
, “of full age” (marg., “perfect”); (b) “complete,” conveying the idea of
goodness without necessary reference to maturity or what is expressed under (a) Matt.
5:48; 19:21; Jas. 1:4 (2nd part); 3:2. It is used thus of God in Matt. 5:48; (II), of “things,
complete, perfect,” Rom. 12:2; 1 Cor. 13:10 (referring to the complete revelation of
God’s will and ways, whether in the completed Scriptures or in the hereafter); Jas. 1:4 (of
the work of patience); v. 25; 1 John 4:18.¶