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1.
(
*
, 1491), properly “that which strikes the eye, that which is exposed to
view,” signifies the “external appearance, form, or shape,” and in this sense is used of the
Holy Spirit in taking bodily form, as a dove, Luke 3:22; of Christ, 9:29, “the fashion of
His countenance.” Christ used it, negatively, of God the Father, when He said “Ye have
neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form,” John 5:37. Thus it is used with
reference to each person of the Trinity. Probably the same meaning attaches to the word
in the apostle’s statement, “We walk by faith, not by sight (
),” 2 Cor. 5:7, where
can scarcely mean the act of beholding, but the visible “appearance” of things
which are set in contrast to that which directs faith. The believer is guided, then, not only
by what he beholds but by what he knows to be true though it is invisible.
It has a somewhat different significance in 1 Thess. 5:22, in the exhortation, “Abstain
from every form of evil,” i.e., every sort or kind of evil (not “appearance,”
KJV
). This
meaning was common in the papyri, the Greek writings of the closing centuries, B.C.,
and the New Testament era. See
FASHION
,
SHAPE
,
SIGHT
.¶ Cf. No. 4.
2.
(
$
, 4383), pros, “towards,”
, “an eye,” lit., “the part round
the eye, the face,” in a secondary sense “the look, the countenance,” as being the index of
the inward thoughts and feelings (cf. 1 Pet. 3:12, there used of the face of the Lord), came
to signify the presentation of the whole person (translated “person,” e.g., in Matt. 22:16).
Cf. the expression in OT passages, as Gen. 19:21 (
KJV
marg., “thy face”), where it is said
by God of Lot, and 33:10, where it is said by Jacob of Esau; see also Deut. 10:17
(“persons”), Lev. 19:15 (“person”). It also signifies the presence of a person, Acts 3:13; 1
Thess. 2:17; or the presence of a company, Acts 5:41. In this sense it is sometimes
rendered “appearance,” 2 Cor. 5:12. In 2 Cor. 10:7,
KJV
, “appearance,” the
RV
corrects to
face. See
COUNTENANCE
,
FACE
,
FASHION
,
PERSON
,
PRESENCE
.
3.
(
7
, 3799), from
, “the eye,” connected with
, “to see” (cf. No. 2),
primarily denotes “seeing, sight”; hence, “the face, the countenance,” John 11:44
(“face”); Rev. 1:16 (“countenance”); the outward “appearance,” the look, John 7:24, only
here, of the outward aspect of a person. See
COUNTENANCE
,
FACE
.
4.
(
1
, 5324), “an aspect, appearance,” is used in Matt. 28:3,
RV
,
“appearance”;
KJV
, “countenance.”¶
B. Verb.
(
1
, 5324), “to make visible,” is used in its participial form (middle
voice), with the neuter article, as equivalent to a noun, and is translated “appearance,”
RV
,
for
KJV
, “sight,” Heb. 12:21.¶
APPEASE
(
!
, 2687), “to quiet” (lit., “to send down,”
, “down,”
,
“to send”), in the passive voice, “to be quiet, or to be quieted,” is used in Acts 19:35 and
36, in the former verse in the active voice,
KJV
, “appeased”;
RV
, “quieted”; in the latter,
the passive, “to be quiet” (lit., ‘to be quieted’) See
QUIET
.¶
APPOINT, APPOINTED
1.
(
(
, 2476), “to make to stand,” means “to appoint,” in Acts 17:31, of
the day in which God will judge the world by Christ. In Acts 1:23, with reference to