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3.
(
!
, 5041), “to bear children” (
, and
, “to
beget”), see No. 9 above, is found in 1 Tim. 5:14.¶
C. Adjectives.
1.
$
(
+
, 1471) denotes “great with child” ( , “in,” and
$
, “to
conceive”), Luke 2:5.¶
J!
(
, 5388), from
, “to love,” and
, signifies
“loving one’s children,” Titus 2:4.¶
3.
(
/
, 815), from , negative, and
, signifies “childless,” Luke
20:28-30.¶
Notes:
(1) For
, “a new born babe,” always rendered “babe” or “babes” in the
RV
(
KJV
, “young children,” Acts 7:19; “child,” 2 Tim. 3:15), see under
BABE
.
(2)
B$
, “adoption of children,” in the
KJV
of Eph. 1:5, is corrected to
“adoption as sons” in the
RV
. See on
ADOPTION
.
CHOKE
1.
(
&
, 4155) is used, in the passive voice, of “perishing by drowning,”
Mark 5:13; in the active, “to seize a person’s throat, to throttle,” Matt. 18:28 See
THROAT
.¶
2.
(
&
, 638), a strengthened form of No. 1 ( , “from,” intensive;
cf. Eng., “to choke off”), is used metaphorically, of “thorns crowding out seed sown and
preventing its growth,” Matt. 13:7; Luke 8:7. It is Luke’s word for “suffocation by
drowning,” Luke 8:33 (Cf. Mark 5:13, above).¶
3.
$
(
&
, 4846) gives the suggestion of “choking together” (
$
,
“with”), i.e., by crowding, Matt. 13:22; Mark 4:7, 19; Luke 8:14. It is used in Luke 8:42,
of the crowd that thronged the Lord, almost, so to speak, to suffocation.¶
CHOICE, CHOOSE, CHOSEN
A. Verbs.
1.
(
#
!
, 1586), “to pick out, select,” means, in the middle voice, “to
choose for oneself,” not necessarily implying the rejection of what is not chosen, but
“choosing” with the subsidiary ideas of kindness or favor or love, Mark 13:20; Luke
6:13; 9:35 (
RV
); 10:42; 14:7; John 6:70; 13:18; 15:16, 19; Acts 1:2, 24; 6:5; 13:17; 15:22,
25; in 15:7 it is rendered “made choice”; 1 Cor. 1:27-28; Eph. 1:4; Jas. 2:5.¶
2.
(
# !
, 1951), in the middle voice, signifies “to choose,” either in
addition or in succession to another. It has this meaning in Acts 15:40, of Paul’s choice of
Silas. For its other meaning, “to call or name,” John 5:2, see
CALL
.¶
3.
(
,$!
, 138), “to take,” is used in the middle voice only, in the sense of
taking for oneself, choosing, 2 Thess. 2:13, of a “choice” made by God (as in Deut. 7:6-7;
26:18, Sept.); in Phil. 1:22 and Heb. 11:25, of human “choice.” Its special significance is
to select rather by the act of taking, than by showing preference or favor.¶
4.
(
,$ &
, 140), akin to the verbal adjective
, “that which may be
taken” (see No. 3), signifies “to take,” with the implication that what is taken is eligible
or suitable; hence, “to choose,” by reason of this suitability, Matt. 12:18, of God’s delight