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PERSUASIVE, PERSUASIVENESS
A. Adjective.
(
, 3981), an adjective (akin to
), not found elsewhere, is
translated “persuasive” in 1 Cor. 2:4,
RV
(
KJV
, “enticing”); see
ENTICE
, B.¶
B. Noun.
(
&
, 4086), “persuasiveness of speech,” is used in Col. 2:4,
RV
. See
ENTICE
, B,
Note
.¶
PERSUASION
(
)
, 3988), akin to
, is used in Gal. 5:8, where the meaning is
“this influence that has won you over, or that seems likely to do so”; the use of
, in
the sense of “to obey,” in v. 7, suggests a play upon words here.¶
PERTAIN TO
(
!
, 3348), Heb. 7:13,
KJV
; see
BELONG
,
Note
(c),
PARTAKE
, B, No. 3.
Notes:
(1) In Rom. 15:17, the phrase
, lit., “the (things) towards” is translated
“things pertaining to,”
RV
(
KJV
, “those things which pertain to”), in Heb. 2:17 and 5:1,
RV
and
KJV
, “things pertaining to.” (2) In Acts 1:3,
KJV
, the phrase
, “the (things)
concerning” (
RV
), is translated “the things pertaining to.” (3) In Rom. 9:4, the
RV
rightly
translates the relative pronoun
, lit., “of whom” from
, “who”) by “whose is” (
KJV
,
“to whom
”). (4) In Rom. 4:1,
KJV
,
, “according to” (
RV
), is translated “as
pertaining to.” (5) For 1 Cor. 6:3, 4, see
LIFE
, B, No. 1.
PERVERSE, PERVERT
1.
(
$!
, 654), “to turn away” ( , “from,”
, “to turn”), is
used metaphorically in the sense of “perverting” in Luke 23:14 (cf. No. 2 in Lu 23:2). See
BRING
, No. 22.
2.
(
$!
, 1294), “to distort, twist” ( , “through,” and
), is
translated “to pervert” in Luke 23:2 (cf. No. 1 in v. 14); Acts 13:10 [in v. 8, “to turn
aside” (
KJV
, “away”)]; in the perfect participle, passive voice, it is translated “perverse,”
lit., “turned aside, corrupted,” in Matt. 17:17; Luke 9:41; Acts 20:30; Phil. 2:15.¶
3.
(
$!
, 3344), “to transform into something of an opposite
character” (
, signifying “a change,” and
,) as the Judaizers sought to “pervert
the gospel of Christ,” Gal. 1:7; cf. “the sun shall be turned into darkness,” Acts 2:20;
laughter into mourning and joy to heaviness, Jas. 4:9. See
TURN
.¶
4.
(
#
$!
, 1612), “to turn inside out” ( , “out”), “to change entirely,”
is used metaphorically in Titus 3:11,
RV
, “is perverted” (
KJV
, “is subverted”). See
SUBVERT
.¶
Note:
For “perverse disputings,” 1 Tim. 6:5,
KJV
, see
DISPUTE
, A, No. 3.
PESTILENCE, PESTILENT FELLOW