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8.
(
* !$
, 1525), lit., “to go in” (
, “in,”
, “to go”), “to
enter,” is once rendered “arose,” metaphorically, with reference to a reasoning among the
disciples which of them should be the greatest, Luke 9:46. See
COME
,
ENTER
,
GO
.
9.
(
!
, 393), “to arise,” is used especially of things in the natural
creation, e.g., “the rising” of the sun, moon and stars; metaphorically, of light, in Matt.
4:16, “did spring up”; of the sun, Matt. 5:45; 13:6 (
RV
); Mark 4:6; Jas. 1:11; in Mark 16:2
the
RV
has “when the sun was risen,” keeping to the verb form, for the
KJV
, “at the rising
of”; of a cloud, Luke 12:54; of the day-star, 2 Pet. 1:19; in Heb. 7:14 metaphorically, of
the Incarnation of Christ: “Our Lord hath sprung out of Judah,” more lit., “Our Lord hath
arisen out of Judah,” as of the rising of the light of the sun. See
RISE
,
SPRING
,
UP
.¶
Notes:
(1) A corresponding noun,
, signifies “the east,” i.e., the place of the
“sunrising.”
(2) In Acts 27:14, the verb
, “to beat” (intransitive), is translated “arose” in the
KJV
;
RV
, “beat.”
ARK
(
, 2787), “a wooden box, a chest,” is used of (a) Noah’s vessel, Matt.
24:38; Luke 17:27; Heb. 11:7; 1 Pet. 3:20; (b) the “ark” of the covenant in the tabernacle,
Heb. 9:4; (c) the “ark” seen in vision in the heavenly temple, Rev. 11:19.¶
ARM (physical)
1.
(
1
, 43), used in the plural, in Luke 2:28, originally denoted “the
curve, or the inner angle, of the arm.” The word is derived from a term signifying “to
bend, to curve”; the Eng. “angle” is connected.¶
: &
,
( , “in,” and a verb akin to No. 1), “to take into the arms, to
embrace,” is used in Mark 9:36 and 10:16, of the tenderness of Christ towards little
children.¶
2.
(
$ &
, 1023), “the shorter part of the arm, from the shoulder to the
elbow,” is used metaphorically to denote strength, power, and always in the NT of the
power of God, Luke 1:51; John 12:38; Acts 13:17; frequently so in the OT, especially in
Deuteronomy, the Psalms and Isaiah; see, e.g., Deut. 4:34; 5:15; Ps. 44:3; 71:18, where
“strength” is, lit., “arm”; 77:15; Isa. 26:11, where “hand” is, lit., “arm”; 30:30; 40:10-11,
etc.¶
ARMS (weapons), ARMOR, TO ARM
A. Nouns.
1.
(
6
, 3696), originally any tool or implement for preparing a thing,
became used in the plural for “weapons of warfare.” Once in the NT it is used of actual
weapons, John 18:3; elsewhere, metaphorically, of (a) the members of the body as
instruments of unrighteousness and as instruments of righteousness, Rom. 6:13; (b) the
“armor” of light, Rom. 13:12; the “armor” of righteousness, 2 Cor. 6:7; the weapons of
the Christian’s warfare, 2 Cor. 10:4.¶
2.
(
&
, 3833), (Eng., “panoply”), lit., “all armor, full armor,” (
,
“all,”
, “a weapon”), is used (a) of literal “armor,” Luke 11:22; (b) of the spiritual