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in John 18:2 (the aorist tense expressing repeated action viewed cumulatively). See
ASSEMBLE
,
GATHER
,
LEAD
,
Note
(1).
Notes:
(1) In the
KJV
of John 18:20 and Acts 16:13,
$
, “to come together”
(
RV
), is translated “to resort.” (2) In Mark 10:1,
KJV
,
$ $
, “to come together”
(
RV
), is translated “resort.”
RESPECT (Noun and Verb)
A. Noun.
(
!$
, 3313), “a part,” has occasionally the meaning of “a class” or
“category,” and, used in the dative case with , “in,” signifies “in respect of,” 2 Cor.
3:10, “in (this) respect”; 9:3,
RV
,
KJV
, “in (this) behalf”; Col. 2:16, “in respect of (a feast
day).”
B. Verbs.
1.
(
!
, 578), “to look away from all else at one object” ( ,
“from”), hence, “to look steadfastly,” is translated “he had respect” in Heb. 11:26,
KJV
(
RV
, “looked”). See
LOOK
.
2.
(
# !
, 1914), “to look upon” ( ), is translated “have respect” in Jas.
2:3 (
RV
“regard”); see
LOOK
, No. 6.
Notes:
(1) The following prepositions are translated “in respect of”:
,
“concerning,” in John 16:8,
RV
; , “upon, over,” in Heb. 11:4,
RV
; marg., “over (his
gifts)”;
, “in regard to,” in Phil. 4:11. (2) For “respect of persons” and “respecter of
persons” see
PERSON
.
REST (Noun and Verb)
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
1
, 372), “cessation, refreshment, rest” ( , “up,”
$
, “to
make to cease”), the constant word in the Sept. for the Sabbath “rest,” is used in Matt.
11:29; here the contrast seems to be to the burdens imposed by the Pharisees. Christ’s
“rest” is not a “rest” from work, but in work, “not the rest of inactivity but of the
harmonious working of all the faculties and affections—of will, heart, imagination,
conscience—because each has found in God the ideal sphere for its satisfaction and
development” (J. Patrick, in
B
0 ! 4 !
); it occurs also in Matt. 12:43; Luke
11:24; Rev. 4:8,
RV
, “(they have no) rest” [
KJV
, “(they) rest (not)”], where the noun is the
object of the verb
, “to have”; so in 14:11.¶
2.
$
(
1
, 2663), in classical Greek, denotes “a causing to cease” or
“putting to rest”; in the NT, “rest, repose”; it is used (a) of God’s “rest,” Acts 7:49; Heb.
3:11, 18; 4:1, 3 (twice),
RV
(1st part), “that rest” (the
KJV
, “rest,” is ambiguous), 5, 11; (b)
in a general statement, applicable to God and man, 4:10.¶
3.
(
/
, 425), for the significance of which see
EASE
, B, is translated “rest”
in 2 Cor. 2:13,
KJV
(
RV
, “relief”); 7:5 (ditto); in 2 Thess. 1:7, the subject is not the “rest”
to be granted to the saints, but the divine retribution on their persecutors; hence the
phrase “and to you that are afflicted rest with us,” is an incidental extension of the idea of