Note:
The verb
, “to have,” with
, “a necessity,” is translated “I was
constrained,” in Jude 3,
RV
(
KJV
, “it was needful”).
B. Adverb.
(
, 317), akin to A, No. 1, “by force, unwillingly, by
constraint,” is used in 1 Pet. 5:2.¶
CONSULT, CONSULTATION
A. Verbs.
1.
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(
"
, 1011), used in the middle voice, means (a) “to consult,” Luke
14:31; (b) “to resolve,” John 12:10,
KJV
, “consulted”;
RV
, took counsel.” See
COUNSEL
.
2.
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(
"
, 4823), “to take counsel together,” is translated
“consulted together,” in Matt. 26:4,
KJV
(
RV
, “took counsel.”) See
COUNSEL
.
B. Noun.
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(
"
, 4824), a word of the Graeco-Roman period (akin to A, No.
2), “counsel, advice,” is translated “consultation” in Mark 15:1 (with
, “to make”),
“to hold a consultation”; elsewhere “counsel” in the
RV
, except in Acts 25:12, where, by
metonymy, it means a “council.” See
COUNCIL
.
CONSUME
1.
(
&
, 355), “to use up, spend up, especially in a bad sense, to
destroy,” is said of the destruction of persons, (a) literally, Luke 9:54 and the
RV
marg. of
2 Thess. 2:8 (text, “shall slay”); (b) metaphorically, Gal. 5:15 “(that) ye be not consumed
(one of another).”¶
2.
(
&
, 2654), “to consume utterly, wholly” (
, intensive),
is said, in Heb. 12:29, of God as “a consuming fire.”¶
3.
(
&
, 853), lit., “to cause to disappear, put out of sight,” came to
mean “to do away with” ( , negative,
, “to cause to appear”), said of the
destructive work of moth and rust, Matt. 6:19-20 (
RV
, “consume,”
KJV
, “corrupt”). See
CORRUPT
,
DISFIG URE
,
PERISH
,
VANISH
.
: & 4
, “to expend, be at an expense,” is translated “consume” in the
KJV
of
Jas. 4:3 (
RV
, “spend”). See
SPEND
.
CONTAIN
1.
(
$!
, 5562) signifies (a), lit., “to give space, make room” (
, “a
place”); hence, transitively, “to have space or room for a thing, to contain,” said of the
waterpots as “containing” a certain quantity, John 2:6; of a space large enough to hold a
number of people, Mark 2:2; of the world as not possible of “containing” certain books,
John 21:25; (b) “to go,” Matt. 15:17; “to have place,” John 8:37; “to come,” 2 Pet. 3:9;
(c) metaphorically, “of receiving with the mind,” Matt. 19:11, 12; or “into the heart,” 2
Cor. 7:2. See
COME
(No. 24),
GO
,
PLACE
,
RECEIVE
,
ROOM
.¶
2.
(
$ !
, 4023), lit., “to have round” ( , “around,”
, “to have”),
means “to encompass, enclose, contain,” as a writing contains details, 1 Pet. 2:6. Some
mss. have it in Acts 23:25, lit., “having this form” (the most authentic have
, “to