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Note:
In Heb. 13:2 (first part),
@
, lit., “love of strangers” (
, “to love,”
and
@
, “a stranger or guest”), is translated “to show love to,”
RV
, for
KJV
, “entertain.”
See
HOSPITALITY
.
ENTICE, ENTICING
A. Verb.
(
1
, 1185), primarily, “to lure by a bait” (from
, “a bait”), is used
metaphorically in Jas. 1:14, of the “enticement” of lust; in 2 Pet. 2:14, of seducers,
RV
,
“enticing,” for
KJV
, “beguiling”; in v. 18,
RV
, “entice (in),” for KV, “allure (through).”¶
B. Adjective.
(
, 3981), “apt to persuade” (from
, “to persuade”), is used in 1
Cor. 2:4,
KJV
, “enticing,”
RV
, “persuasive.”¶
Note:
In Col. 2:4,
, “persuasive speech” (from
, “persuasive,
plausible,” akin to the above, and
, “speech”), is rendered “enticing” in the
KJV
(
RV
,
“persuasiveness of.”) It signifies the employment of plausible arguments, in contrast to
demonstration.¶ Cf.
$
, “fair speech,” Rom. 16:18, i.e., “nice style.”¶
ENTIRE
(
3
$
, 3648), “complete, sound in every part” (
, “whole,”
, “a lot,” i.e., with all that has fallen by lot), is used ethically in 1 Thess. 5:23,
indicating that every grace present in Christ should be manifested in the believer; so Jas.
1:4.¶ In the Sept. the word is used, e.g., of a “full” week, Lev. 23:15; of altar stones
unhewn, Deut. 27:6 and Josh. 8:31; of a “full-grown” vine tree, useless for work, Ezek.
15:5; of the “sound” condition of a sheep, Zech. 11:16.
The corresponding noun
is used in Acts 3:16, “perfect soundness.”¶ The
synonymous word
, used also in Jas. 1:4, “perfect,” indicates the development of
every grace into maturity.
The Heb.
, “peace,” is derived from a root meaning “wholeness.” See, e.g.,
Isa. 42:19, marg., “made perfect,” for text, “at peace”; cf. 26:3. Cf. also Col. 1:28 with 2
Pet. 3:14.
For
ENTREAT, to request
, see
INTREAT
;
for ENTREATY see
INTREATY
ENTREAT (“to deal with, to treat”)
Note:
The distinction between this and the preceding word is maintained in the
RV
,
which confines the initial “e” to the sense of “dealing with,” or uses the verb “to treat.”
(
$1
, 5531) denotes (a) “to use” (of things); (b) “to use well or ill, to
treat, deal with” (of persons); “treated (kindly),” Acts 27:3,
RV
,
KJV
, “(courteously)
entreated.” The remaining ten instances come under (a). See
USE
.
Note:
In Luke 20:11,
, “to dishonor” ( , negative,
, “honor”), is
translated “entreated shamefully,”
KJV
(
RV
, “handled shamefully”). For
$
, Heb.
11:37,
RV
, and
$ $
, Heb. 11:25,
RV
, see
SUFFER
, Nos. 6 and 7.