Notes:
(1)
,
, “to be at home,” is so rendered in 2 Cor. 5:6 (
KJV
and
RV
); in vv.
8, 9,
RV
, “at home” (
KJV
, “present”). See
HOME
. (2) In John 14:25,
KJV
,
, “to abide,”
is translated “being present” (
RV
, “abiding”). (3) In Luke 5:17 the
RV
has “with Him,” for
KJV
, italicized, “
!
”
PRESENT (Verb)
1.
(
$&
, 3936) denotes, when used transitively, “to place beside”
(
, “by,”
, “to set”), “to present,” e.g., Luke 2:22; Acts 1:3, “He shewed
(Himself)”; 9:41; 23:33; Rom. 6:13 (2nd part),
RV
, “present,”
KJV
“yield”; so 6:19
(twice); 12:1; 2 Cor. 4:14; 11:2; Eph. 5:27; Col. 1:22, 28; 2 Tim. 2:15,
RV
(
KJV
, “shew”).
See
SHEW
.
2.
(
$&
, 3936), a late present form of No. 1, is used in Rom. 6:13 (1st
part) and v. 16,
RV
, “present” (
KJV
, “yield”).
Notes:
(1) In Jude 24,
KJV
,
, “to cause to stand, to set,” is translated “to
present” (
RV
, “to set”). (2) In Matt. 2:11,
KJV
,
, “to offer,” is translated
“presented” (
RV
, “offered”).
For
PRESENTLY
see
FORTHWITH
, No. 1, and
IMMEDIATELY
, No. 1
PRESERVE
1.
(
$!
, 5083) is translated “to preserve” in 1 Thess. 5:23, where the verb is
in the singular number, as the threefold subject, “spirit and soul and body,” is regarded as
the unit, constituting the person. The aorist or “point” tense regards the continuous
“preservation” of the believer as a single, complete act, without reference to the time
occupied in its accomplishment; in Jude 1,
KJV
(
RV
, “kept”). See
KEEP
, No. 1.
2.
$
(
$!
, 4933): see
KEEP
, No. 3.
3.
(
!
, 2225), “to preserve alive”: see
LIVE
, No. 6.
4.
$
(
1
, 5442), “to guard, protect, preserve,” is translated “preserved”
in 2 Pet. 2:5,
RV
(
KJV
, “saved”). See
GUARD
.
Note:
In 2 Tim. 4:18,
KJV
,
, “to save,” is translated “will preserve” (
RV
, “will
save”).
For
PRESS
(Noun) see
CROWD
, A
PRESS (Verb)
A. Verbs.
1.
(
&
, 2346), “to press, distress, trouble,” is translated “pressed” in 2 Cor.
4:8,
RV
(
KJV
, “troubled”). See
AFFLICT
, No. 4.
2.
(
&
, 598), translated “press” in Luke 8:45 (end): see
CRUSH
.
3.
(
1
, 971), in the middle voice, “to press violently” or “force one’s way
into,” is translated “presseth” in Luke 16:16,
KJV
,
RV
, “entereth violently,” a meaning
confirmed by the papyri. Moulton and Milligan also quote a passage from D. S. Sharp’s