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(
3$&
, 1213), “to make plain,” is rendered “to declare” in 1 Cor. 1:11,
KJV
; 3:13;
Col. 1:8. See
SIGNIFY
.
11.
(
$1
, 5419), “to declare,” oc curs in Matt. 15:15 and (in some texts) in
13:36 (as
KJV
).
Note:
For
, “to make known,” rendered “to declare” in John 17:26; 1 Cor.
15:1 and Col. 4:7, see
KNOW
, A, No. 8. For
, “to declare plainly,” Heb. 11:14,
KJV
, see
MANIFEST
, A, No. 2. For
, see
MANIFEST
, B, No. 1. For
,
Acts 25:14,
KJV
, see
COMMUNICATE
. For declare glad tidings” see
TIDINGS
.
B. Noun.
@
(
+
, 1732), “a showing, pointing out” ( , “in,”
$
, “to show”),
is said of the “showing forth” of God’s righteousness, in Rom. 3:25-26,
KJV
, “to declare”;
RV
, “to show,” and “(for) the showing.” In 2 Cor. 8:24, “proof”; Phil. 1:28, “an evident
token.” See
SHOW
,
TOKEN
.¶
Notes:
(1) In Luke 1:1,
is a “narrative” (
RV
), not a “declaration” (
KJV
).
(2) In 2 Cor. 8:19, “declaration” does not represent any word in the original.
DECREASE (Verb)
(
#
, 1642) signifies “to make less or inferior, in quality, position or
dignity”; “madest … lower” and “hast made … lower,” in Heb. 2:7, 9. In John 3:30, it is
used in the middle voice, in John the Baptist’s “I must decrease,” indicating the special
interest he had in his own “decrease,” i.e., in authority and popularity. See
LOWER
.¶
DECREE (Noun and Verb)
(
, 1378), transliterated in English, primarily denoted “an opinion or
judgment” (from
, “to be of opinion”), hence, an “opinion expressed with authority,
a doctrine, ordinance, decree”; “decree,” Luke 2:1; Acts 16:4; 17:7; in the sense of
ordinances, Eph. 2:15; Col. 2:14. See
ORDINANCE
.¶
: &
, “to determine,” is translated “hath decreed” in 1 Cor. 7:37,
KJV
;
RV
,
“hath determined.”
DEDICATE, DEDICATION
A. Verb.
(
#
&
, 1457) primarily means “to make new, to renew” ( , “in,”
, “new”), as in the Sept. of 2 Chron. 15:8; then, to initiate or “dedicate,” Heb. 9:18,
with reference to the first covenant, as not “dedicated” without blood; in 10:20, of
Christ’s “dedication” of the new and living way (
KJV
, “consecrated”;
RV
, “dedicated”).
See
CONSECRATE
.¶ In the Sept. it has this meaning in Deut. 20:5; 2 Chron. 7:5; Isa.
16:11; 41:1; 45:16, “keep feast (to Me).”
B. Noun.
(
#
&
, 1456), akin to A, frequent in the Sept., in the sense of
“dedication,” became used particularly for the annual eight days’ feast beginning on the
25th of Chisleu (mid. of Dec.), instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, 164, B.C., to
commemorate the cleansing of the Temple from the pollutions of Antiochus Epiphanes;