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:
, speaking of “those who (try to) force their way in”; the verb
suggests forceful endeavor. See
ENTER
,
Note
(3),
VIOLENCE
, B, No. 2.
4.
$
(
!
, 4912): for the significance of this in Acts 18:5, “was constrained
by the word,”
RV
, i.e., Paul felt the urge of the word of his testimony to the Jews in
Corinth, see
CONSTRAIN
, No. 3. It is used with No. 1 in Luke 8:45,
RV
, “press” (
KJV
,
“throng”).
5.
(
#
!
, 1758), lit., “to hold in,” also signifies “to set oneself against, be
urgent against,” as the scribes and Pharisees were regarding Christ, Luke 11:53,
RV
, “to
press upon,” marg., “set themselves vehemently against” (
KJV
, “to urge”). See
ENTANGLE
,
No. 3.
6.
(
# &
, 1945), “to lie upon, press upon,” is rendered “pressed upon”
in Luke 5:1. See
IMPOSED
.
7.
(
# &
, 1968), “to fall upon,” is rendered “pressed upon” in Mark 3:10.
See
FALL
, B, No. 5.
8.
(
$!
, 916), “to weigh down, burden,” is rendered “we were pressed” in 2
Cor. 1:8,
KJV
(
RV
, “we were weighed down”). See
BURDEN
, B, No. 1A.
9.
(
# $!
, 1912), 2 Cor. 2:5,
RV
, “I press (not) too heavily” (
KJV
,
“overcharge”). See
BURDEN
, B, No. 2,
OVERCHARGE
.
10.
(
!
, 4085), “to press down together,” is used in Luke 6:38, “pressed
down,” of the character of the measure given in return for giving.¶ In the Sept., Mic.
6:15.¶
11.
(
0
, 1377), “to pursue,” is used as a metaphor from the footrace, in
Phil. 3:12, 14, of “speeding on earnestly,”
RV
, “I press on.” See
FOLLOW
, No. 7.
12.
(
!$
, 5342), “to bear, carry,” is used in the passive voice in Heb. 6:1, “let
us … press on,”
RV
, lit., “let us be borne on” (
KJV
, “go on”). See
GO
,
Note
(2), (h).
B. Noun.
(
# "
, 1999v), primarily “a stopping, halting” (as of soldiers), then,
“an incursion, onset, rush, pressure” (akin to
, “to set upon”), is so used in 2
Cor. 11:28, “(that which) presseth upon (me),”
KJV
, “cometh upon,” lit., “(the daily)
pressure (upon me)”; some have taken the word in its other meaning “attention,” which
perhaps is accounted for by the variant reading of the pronoun (
$
, “my”, instead of
, “to me, upon me”), but that does not adequately describe the “pressure” or onset due
to the constant call upon the apostle for all kinds of help, advice, counsel, exhortation,
decisions as to difficulties, disputes, etc. Cf. the other occurrence of the word in Acts
¶ Indicates that all the NT occurrences of the Greek word under consideration are
mentioned under the heading or sub-heading.
v Variant spellings of forms of other words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a “v”
following the number (for instance,
, a variant of
, is 1790v).