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For
ANATHEMA
see
CURSE
ANCHOR
$
(
/
$
, 45), (Eng., “anchor”), was so called because of its curved form
(
, “a curve”), Acts 27:29-30, 40; Heb. 6:19. In Acts 27:13 the verb
, “to lift,”
signifies “to lift anchor” (the noun being understood),
RV
, “they weighed anchor” (
KJV
,
“loosing thence”).¶
ANEW
(
/
, 509), lit., “from above,” in the phrase rendered “anew” in the
RV
(
KJV
, “again”) of John 3:3, 7. See
AGAIN
.
Note:
In Phil. 3:21 “fashion anew” translates the verb
, which
signifies “to change the form of”.
ANGEL
(
/
, 32), “a messenger” (from
, “to deliver a message”), sent
whether by God or by man or by Satan, “is also used of a guardian or representative in
Rev. 1:20, cf. Matt. 18:10; Acts 12:15 (where it is better understood as ‘ghost’), but most
frequently of an order of created beings, superior to man, Heb. 2:7; Ps. 8:5, belonging to
Heaven, Matt. 24:36; Mark 12:25, and to God, Luke 12:8, and engaged in His service, Ps.
103:20. “Angels” are spirits, Heb. 1:14, i.e., they have not material bodies as men have;
they are either human in form, or can assume the human form when necessary, cf. Luke
24:4, with v. 23, Acts 10:3 with v. 30.
“They are called ‘holy’ in Mark 8:38, and ‘elect,’ 1 Tim. 5:21, in contrast with some
of their original number, Matt. 25:41, who ‘sinned,’ 2 Pet. 2:4, ‘left their proper
habitation,’ Jude 6,
, a word which occurs again, in the NT, only in 2 Cor. 5:2.
Angels are always spoken of in the masculine gender, the feminine form of the word does
not occur.”*
: &
9
, “equal to the angels,” occurs in Luke 20:36.¶
ANGER, ANGRY (to be)
A. Noun.
(
A$ )
, 3709), originally any “natural impulse, or desire, or disposition,” came to
signify “anger,” as the strongest of all passions. It is used of the wrath of man, Eph. 4:31;
Col. 3:8; 1 Tim. 2:8; Jas. 1:19-20; the displeasure of human governments, Rom. 13:4-5;
the sufferings of the Jews at the hands of the Gentiles, Luke 21:23; the terrors of the Law,
Rom. 4:15; “the anger” of the Lord Jesus, Mark 3:5; God’s “anger” with Israel in the
wilderness, in a quotation from the OT, Heb. 3:11; 4:3; God’s present “anger” with the
Jews nationally, Rom. 9:22; 1 Thess. 2:16; His present “anger” with those who disobey
the Lord Jesus in His gospel, John 3:36; God’s purposes in judgment, Matt. 3:7; Luke
3:7; Rom. 1:18; 2:5, 8; 3:5; 5:9; 12:19; Eph. 2:3; 5:6; Col. 3:6; 1 Thess. 1:10; 5:9. See
INDIGNATION
,
VENGEANCE
,
WRATH
.¶