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far advanced.” The noun is found in Luke 1:18, “an old man”; Titus 2:2, “aged men,” and
Philem. 9, where the
RV
marg., “Paul an ambassador,” is to be accepted, the original
almost certainly being
$
(not
$
), “an ambassador.” So he describes
himself in Eph. 6:20. As Lightfoot points out, he is hardly likely to have made his age a
ground of appeal to Philemon, who, if he was the father of Archippus, cannot have been
much younger than Paul himself See
OLD
.
2.
$
(
$ "
, 4247), the feminine of No. 1, “an aged woman,” is found in
Titus 2:3.¶
B. Verb.
(
$1
, 1095), from
, “old age,” signifies “to grow old,” John 21:18
(“when thou shalt be old”) and Heb. 8:13 (
RV
, “that which … waxeth aged,”
KJV
, “old”).
See
OLD
.¶
For
AGO
see
LONG
, A, No. 5, and in combination with other words
AGONY
(
&
, 74), Eng., “agony,” was used among the Greeks as an alternative to
, “a place of assembly”; then for the contests or games which took place there, and
then to denote intense emotion. It was more frequently used eventually in this last
respect, to denote severe emotional strain and anguish. So in Luke 22:44, of the Lord’s
“agony” in Gethsemane.¶
AGREE, AGREEMENT
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
!
, 4856), lit., “to sound together” (
$
, “together,”
,
“a sound”), i.e., “to be in accord, primarily of musical instruments,” is used in the NT of
the “agreement” (a) of persons concerning a matter, Matt. 18:19; 20:2, 13; Acts 5:9; (b)
of the writers of Scripture, Acts 15:15; (c) of things that are said to be congruous in their
nature, Luke 5:36.¶
Note:
Cf.
$
, “concord,” 2 Cor. 6:15,¶, and
$
, “music,” Luke
15:25.¶
2.
$
(
&
, 4934), lit., “to put together” (
$
, “with,”
, “to
put”), in the middle voice, means “to make an agreement, or to assent to”; translated
“covenanted” in Luke 22:5; “agreed” in John 9:22, and Acts 23:20;“assented” in Acts
24:9.¶
Note:
For the synonym
$
, a strengthened form of No. 2, see
CONSENT
,
No. 4.
3.
$
(
'
!
, 2132), lit., “to be well-minded, well-disposed” (
$
, “well,”
$
,
“the mind”), is found in Matt. 5:25, “agree with.”¶
4.
(
&
, 3982), “to persuade,” is rendered “agreed” in Acts 5:40, where the
meaning is “they yielded to him.” See
ASSURE
,
BELIEVE
,
CONFIDENT
,
FRIEND
,
OBEY
,
PERSUADE
,
TRUST
,
YIELD
.
B. Nouns.