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: &
8
signifies “terror,” not “amazement,” 1 Pet. 3:6,
RV
.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
@
(
# &
, 1839), akin to A, No. 1, lit. means “to stand out from.” Like the
noun, this is used with two distinct meanings: (a) in the sense of amazement, the word
should be invariably rendered “amazed,” as in the
RV
, e.g., in the case of Simon Magus
(for
KJV
, “bewitched”), Acts 8:9 and 11. It is used, in the passive voice, of Simon himself
in the 13th v.,
RV
, “he was amazed,” for
KJV
, “wondered.” “Amaze” is preferable to
“astonish” throughout; (b) in Mark 3:21 and 2 Cor. 5:13 it is used with its other meaning
of being beside oneself. See
BESIDE ONESELF
(
TO BE
),
BEWITCH
,
WONDER
.
2.
(
#
)
, 1605), from , “out of,”
, “to strike,” lit., “to strike
out,” signifies “to be exceedingly struck in mind, to be astonished” ( , intensive). The
English “astonish” should be used for this verb, and “amaze” for
@
, as in the
RV
;
see Matt. 19:25; Luke 2:48; 9:43.
3.
(
!
, 2284), akin to A, No. 2, is used in Mark 1:27; 10:24, 32 (and
Acts 9:6,
KJV
). The
RV
has “amazed” in each place;
KJV
“astonished,” in Mark l10:24.¶
4.
(
#
!
, 1568), an intensive form of No. 3, is found in Mark’s
gospel only; in 9:15, “were greatly amazed”; in 14:33,
KJV
, “were sore amazed”; in 16:5,
RV
, “were amazed,”
KJV
, “were affrighted”; in v. 6,
RV
, “be not amazed,”
KJV
, “be not
affrighted.” See
AFFRIGHTED
.¶
C. Adjective.
(
+
, 1569), a strengthened form of A, No. 2, is found in Acts 3:11.
The intensive force of the word is brought out by the rendering “greatly wondering. See
WONDER
.¶
AMBASSADOR, AMBASSAGE
A. Verb.
$
(
$ "
, 4243) denotes (a) “to be elder or eldest, prior in birth or age”;
(b) “to be an ambassador,” 2 Cor. 5:20, and Eph. 6:20; for Philem. 9 see under
AGED
.
There is a suggestion that to be an “ambassador” for Christ involves the experience
suggested by the word “elder.” Elder men were chosen as “ambassadors.”
B. Noun.
(
$ &
, 4242), primarily, “age, eldership, rank,” hence, “an embassy or
ambassage,” is used in Luke 14:32; in 19:14,
RV
, “ambassage,” for
KJV
, “message.”¶
AMEN
(
)
, 281) is transliterated from Hebrew into both Greek and English. “Its
meanings may be seen in such passages as Deut. 7:9, ‘the faithful (the Amen) God,’ Isa.
49:7, ‘Jehovah that is faithful.’ 65:16, ‘the God of truth,’ marg., ‘the God of Amen.’ And
if God is faithful His testimonies and precepts are “sure (
),” Ps. 19:7; 111:7, as are
also His warnings, Hos. 5:9, and promises, Isa. 33:16; 55:3. ‘Amen’ is used of men also,
e.g., Prov. 25:13.
“There are cases where the people used it to express their assent to a law and their
willingness to submit to the penalty attached to the breach of it, Deut. 27:15, cf. Neh.