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4.
(
$
, 5164), “a wheel,” is translated “wheel” in Jas. 3:6,
RV
, with
metaphorical reference to the round of human activity (
KJV
, “course”), as a glowing axle
would set on fire the whole wooden wheel.¶
B. Verb.
(
$!
, 5562), “to make room for, to go forward,” is rendered “hath not free
course,” in John 8:37,
RV
(
KJV
, “hath no place”). See
COME
, No. 24.
Notes:
(1) Connected with
, A, No. 2, is
$
$
, “to make (or run) a
straight course” (
$
$
, “straight”), Acts 16:11 and 21:1.¶ (2) In 2 Thess. 3:1,
, “to
run” (
RV
), is translated “have free course” (
KJV
).¶ (3) In 1 Cor. 14:27,
, “by
turn,” “in turn” (
RV
), is rendered “by course” (
KJV
). (4) For
, “a sailing or voyage,
course,” Acts 21:7,
KJV
(
RV
, voyage), see
VOYAGE
.
COURT
1.
(
$
, 60) is an adjective, “signifying pertaining to the
, any
place of public meeting, and especially where trials were held,” Acts 19:38; the
RV
translates the sentence “the courts are open”; a more literal rendering is “court days are
kept.” In Acts 17:5 it is translated in the
RV
, “rabble”;
KJV
, “baser sort,” lit., “frequenters
of the markets.” See
BASER
.¶
2.
$
(
' )
, 833), primarily, “an uncovered space around a house, enclosed by a
wall, where the stables were,” hence was used to describe (a) “the courtyard of a house”;
in the OT it is used of the “courts” of the tabernacle and Temple; in this sense it is found
in the NT in Rev. 11:2; (b) “the courts in the dwellings of well-to-do folk,” which usually
had two, one exterior, between the door and the street (called the
$
, or “porch,”
Mark 14:68.¶), the other, interior, surrounded by the buildings of the dwellings, as in
Matt. 26:69 (in contrast to the room where the judges were sitting); Mark 14:66; Luke
22:55;
KJV
, “hall”;
RV
“court” gives the proper significance, Matt. 26:3, 58; Mark 14:54;
15:16 (
RV
, “Praetorium”); Luke 11:21; John 18:15. It is here to be distinguished from the
Praetorium, translated “palace.” See
HALL
,
PALACE
. For the other meaning “sheepfold,”
John 10:1, 16, see
FOLD
.¶
3.
(
&
, 933), an adjective meaning “royal,” signifies, in the neuter
plural, “a royal palace,” translated “kings’ courts” in Luke 7:25; in the singular, 1 Pet.
2:9, “royal.” See
ROYAL
.¶
COURTEOUS, COURTEOUSLY
A. Adjective.
, “lowlyminded,” is used in 1 Pet. 3:8, “be courteous,”
KJV
(
RV
,
“humble-minded”).¶
B. Adverbs.
1.
(
$
, 5390), lit., “friendly,” or, more fully, “with friendly
thoughtfulness” (
, “friend,”
, “the mind”), is found in Acts 28:7, of the
hospitality showed by Publius to Paul and his fellow-shipwrecked travelers.¶