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Note:
For the
RV
renderings of
, in Gal. 4:17, 18, “they zealously seek,” “ye may
seek,” “to be zealously sought,” see
AFFECT
,
:
and
ZEALOUS
.
SEEM
(
!
, 1380) denotes (a) “to be of opinion” (akin to
@
, “opinion”), e.g.,
Luke 8:18,
RV
, “thinketh” (
KJV
, “seemeth”); so 1 Cor. 3:18; to think, suppose, Jas. 1:26,
RV
, “thinketh himself (
KJV
, “seem”); see
SUPPOSE
,
THINK
; (b) “to seem, to be reputed,”
e.g., Acts 17:18; 1 Cor. 11:16; 12:22; 2 Cor. 10:9; Heb. 4:1; 12:11; for Gal. 2:2, 6, 9, see
REPUTE
; (C) impersonally (1) to think (see
THINK
), (2) to “seem” good, Luke 1:3; Acts
15:22,
RV
, “it seemed good” (
KJV
, “it pleased”); 15:25, 28 (v. 34 in some mss.); in Heb.
12:10, the neuter of the present participle is used with the article, lit., “the (thing)
seeming good,”
RV
, “(as) seemed good,”
KJV
, “after (their own) pleasure.” See
ACCOUNT
,
No. 1.
Notes:
In Matt. 11:26 and Luke 10:21,
$
, “good pleasure, satisfaction” (
$
,
“well,” and
), is used with
, “to become,” and translated “it seemed good,”
KJV
(
RV
, “it was well-pleasing”). (2) In Luke 24:11,
KJV
,
, “to appear” (passive
voice), is translated “seemed” (
RV
, “appeared”).
For
SEEMLY,
RV
, see
COMELY
, B, and
Note
(2)
Note:
In 1 Pet. 2:12,
RV
,
, “good, fair,” is rendered “seemly.”
SEIZE
1.
$
(
1
, 4815), lit., “to take together” (
$
, “with,”
,
“to take or lay hold of”), chiefly signifies “to seize as a prisoner”; in the following the
RV
substitutes the more suitable and forceful verb, “to seize,” for
KJV
, “to take”: Matt. 26:55;
Mark 14:48; Luke 22:54; John 18:12; Acts 12:3; 23:27; 26:21; in Acts 1:16,
RV
and
KJV
,
“took.” See
CATCH
, No. 8,
CONCEIVE
,
HELP
.
2.
$
(
$ 1
, 4884) is translated “seized” in the
RV
of Luke 8:29; Acts
6:12; 19:29; see
CATCH
, No. 7.
Note:
In Matt. 21:38, the best texts have
, “to have” (“to take,”
RV
); some have
, “to lay hold of” (
KJV
, “seize on”).
SELF, SELVES
1.
$
(
'
, 844), “of oneself” (Eng., “automatic,” “automaton,” etc.),
is used in Mark 4:28; Acts 12:10. See
ACCORD
, B, No. 2.¶
2.
$
(
'
, 846), “he,” also means “self,” in the reflexive pronouns “myself,
thyself, himself,” etc. (see, e.g.,
HE
), expressing distinction, exclusion, etc.; it is usually
emphatic in the nominative case, e.g., Luke 6:42; 11:4; John 18:28; Rom. 8:16,
RV
,
“Himself.”
Note:
In John 16:27, “the Father Himself (
$
),” Field (
:
7
:
) remarks that
$
stands for
$
.
For
SELF-CONDEMNED
see
CONDEMN
, C, No. 1
SELF-CONTROL (without)