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Notes:
(1)
8
in Rom. 5:20, signifies “to come in beside,” i.e., of the
Law, as coming in addition to sin committed previously apart from law, the prefix
/
(i.e.,
) denoting “beside” (the
KJV
, “entered” is inadequate); in Gal. 2:4 (“came in
privily”). See
COME
.¶
(2) In Philem. 19,
signifies “to owe in addition” (
, “besides,” and
, “to owe”): “thou owest (to me even thine own self) besides.”¶
(3) In 2 Pet. 1:5, the phrase, wrongly translated in the
KJV
, “beside this,” means “for
this very cause” (
RV
).
BESIDE ONESELF (to be)
1.
@
(
# &
, 1839), primarily and lit. means “to put out of position,
displace”: hence, (a) “to amaze,” Luke 24:22 (for
KJV
, “make … astonished”); Acts 8:9,
11 (
KJV
, “bewitched "); or “to be amazed, astounded,” Matt. 12:23; Mark 6:51; (b) “to be
out of one’s mind, to be beside oneself,” Mark 3:21; 2 Cor. 5:13, in the latter of which it
is contrasted with
, “to be of a sound mind, sober.” See
AMAZE
.
2.
(
&
, 3105), “to be mad, to rave,” is said of one who so speaks that
he appears to be out of his mind, Acts 26:24, translated “thou art beside thyself,”
KJV
;
RV
,
“thou art mad.” In v. 25; John 10:20; Acts 12:15; 1 Cor. 14:23, both versions use the verb
to be mad. See
MAD
.¶
Note:
For
, 2 Cor. 11:23,
RV
, see
FOOL
, B, No. 2.
BEST
1.
(
$
, 4413) is one of two words translated “best” in the
KJV
, but the
only one so rendered in the
RV
. In Luke 15:22 “the best (robe)” is, lit., “the first (robe),”
i.e., chief, principal, first in rank or quality. See
BEFORE
,
BEGINNING
,
CHIEF
,
FIRST
,
FORMER
.
2.
(
&
, 3187), “greater,” is translated “best” in 1 Cor. 12:31, “the best
gifts,” greater, not in quality, but in importance and value. It is the comparative degree of
, “great”; the superlative,
, is used only in 2 Pet. 1:4. See
ELDER
,
GREATER
AND MORE
.
BESTOW
1.
(
&
, 1325), “to give,” is rendered “bestow” in 1 John 3:1, the implied
idea being that of giving freely. The
KJV
has it in 2 Cor. 8:1; the
RV
adheres to the lit.
rendering, “the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia. See
ADVENTURE
and especially
GIVE
.
2.
$
(
1
, 4863), “to bring together” (
$
, “together,”
, “to bring”), is
used in the sense of “bestowing,” or stowing, by the rich man who laid up his goods for
himself, Luke 12:17-18. See
ASSEMBLE
,
COME
,
GATHER
,
LEAD
,
RESORT
,
TAKE
.
3.
(
1
, 2872), (a) “to grow tired with toil,” Matt. 11:28; John 4:6; Rev.
2:3, also means (b) “to bestow labor, work with toil,” Rom. 16:6; Gal. 4:11; in John 4:38,
KJV
, “bestowed (no) labor,”
RV
, “have (not) labored,” and, in the same verse,
KJV
and
RV
,
“labored.” See
LABOR
,
TOIL
,
WEARY
.