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3.
(
$
, 4702), lit., “sown, or fit for sowing” (
“to sow, scatter
seed”), denotes, in the plural, “sown fields, fields of grain, cornfields,” Matt. 12:1,
RV
;
Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1 (cf.
, 1 Pet. 1:23,¶ and
, “seed”).¶
4.
$
(
1
, 4719) means “an ear of grain,” Matt. 12:1; Mark 2:23; 4:28; Luke
6:1. Cf. the name
-
in Rom. 16:9.¶
Notes:
(1)
*
, “to thresh,” from
, “a threshing-floor,” is translated “treadeth
out (the) corn,” in 1 Cor. 9:9-10 and 1 Tim. 5:18. Cf.
THRESH
,
TREAD
.¶
(2)
, “a grain” (its regular meaning), is translated “corn” in the
KJV
of John
12:24 (
RV
, “grain”). See
GRAIN
.
CORNER, CORNERSTONE
1.
(
&
, 1137), “an angle” (Eng., “coign”), signifies (a) “an external angle,”
as of the “corner” of a street, Matt. 6:5; or of a building, 21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17;
Acts 4:11; 1 Pet. 2:7, “the corner stone or head-stone of the corner” (see below); or the
four extreme limits of the earth, Rev. 7:1; 20:8; (b) “an internal corner,” a secret place,
Acts 26:26. See
QUARTER
.¶
2.
(
$ )
, 746), “a beginning” (its usual meaning), “first in time, order, or
place,” is used to denote the extremities or “corners” of a sheet, Acts 10:11; 11:5. See
BEGINNING
.
Note:
For the adjective
(from
, “extreme, highest,” and No. 1), “a
chief corner stone,” see
CHIEF
. They were laid so as to give strength to the two walls with
which they were connected. So Christ unites Jew and Gentile, Eph. 2:20; again, as one
may carelessly stumble over the “corner stone,” when turning the “corner,” so Christ
proved a stumbling stone to Jews, 1 Pet. 2:6.
CORPSE
(
, 4430): see
BODY
, No. 3.
CORRECT, CORRECTION, CORRECTOR, CORRECTING
A. Nouns.
1.
(
$
, 1357v) signifies “a reform, amendment, correction,” lit., “a
making straight” ( , “through,”
, “to make straight”). In Acts 24:2, lit.,
“reformations come about (or take place, lit., ‘become’),” the
RV
has “evils are
corrected,”
KJV
, “worthy deeds are done”; there is no word for “worthy” or for “deeds” in
the original. Some texts have
, which has the same meaning.¶ See
,
“reformation,” Heb. 9:10.¶
2.
(
#
$
, 1882), lit., “a restoration to an upright or right state”
( , “to,”
, “up, or again,” and
, see No. 1), hence, “correction,” is used of the
Scripture in 2 Tim. 3:16, referring to improvement of life and character.¶
3.
$
(
)
, 3810) has two meanings, corresponding to the two meanings
of the verb
$
(see below) from which it is derived, (a) “a teacher, preceptor,