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of the Holy Spirit is mentioned in the NT in connection with either of these words, or
with the synonymous verb
(see 1 Cor. 1:8; 2 Cor. 1:21, etc.). See
FIX
,
SET
,
STRENGTHEN
.¶
2.
(
$
, 4732), “to make firm, or solid” (akin to
, “hard, firm,
solid”; cf Eng., “stereotype”), is used only in Acts, (a) physically, 3:7, “received
strength”; 3:16, “hath made strong”; (b) metaphorically, of establishment in the faith,
16:5,
RV
, “strengthened,” for
KJV
established.¶
3.
(
(
, 2476), “to cause to stand,” is translated “establish” in Rom. 3:31;
10:3; Heb. 10:9. See
ABIDE
,
APPOINT
,
STAND
, etc.
4.
(
, 950), “to confirm,” is rendered “stablish,” 2 Cor. 1:21;
“stablished,” Col. 2:7; “be established,” Heb. 13:9. See
CONFIRM
.
5.
(
!
, 3549): see
ENACT
.
ESTATE, STATE
1.
$
(
' )
, 2158), signifying “elegant, graceful, comely” (
$
, “well,”
, “figure, fashion”), is used (a) in a moral sense, seemly, becoming, 1 Cor. 7:35;
(b) in a physical sense, comely, 1 Cor. 12:24; (c) with reference to social degree,
influential, a meaning developed in later Greek, and rendered of “honorable estate” in the
RV
of Mark 15:43; Acts 13:50; 17:12 (for
KJV
, “honorable”). See
COMELY
,
HONORABLE
.¶
2.
(
&
, 5014) denotes “abasement, humiliation, low estate” (from
, “lowly”), Luke 1:48, “low estate”; Acts 8:33, “humiliation”; Phil. 3:21,
RV
, “of
humiliation,” for
KJV
, “vile”; Jas. 1:10, “is made low,” lit., “in his low estate. See
HUMILIATION
,
LOW
,
VILE
.¶
3.
$
(
>
, 5311), signifying “height,” is rendered “(in his) high estate,” Jas.
1:9,
RV
, for
KJV
, “in that he is exalted”; “on high,” Luke 1:78; 24:49; Eph. 4:8; “height,”
Eph. 3:18; Rev. 21:16. See
EXALT
,
HEIGHT
,
HIGH
.¶
Notes:
(1) In Acts 22:5,
$
, “presbytery, a body of elders,” is translated
“estate of the elders,” lit., “the presbytery,” i.e., the Sanhedrin. (2) In Col. 4:7 the plural
of the definite article with the preposition
, and the singular personal pronoun with
, “all,” is rendered “all my state,”
KJV
,
RV
, “all my affairs”; in v. 8 the preposition
, with the personal pronoun, lit., “the things concerning us,” is translated “our estate,”
i.e., “how we fare”; so in Phil. 2:19-20, “your state,” i.e., “your condition.” (3) In Mark
6:21
, lit., “first,” is rendered “chief estates,”
KJV
,
RV
, “the chief men,” i.e., the men
to whom belongs the dignity. (4) In Rom. 12:16
, in the plural with the artide,
lit., “the lowly,” is translated “men of low estate,”
KJV
,
RV
, “things that are lowly.” (S) In
Jude 6
, “principality,”
RV
,
KJV
has “first estate,” (6) For “last state” see
LAST
.
ESTEEM
1.
(
4 !
, 2233) signifies “to lead”; then, “to lead before the mind, to
suppose, consider, esteem”; translated “esteem” in Phil. 2:3,
KJV
,
RV
, “counting”; in 1
Thess. 5:13, “esteem”; in Heb. 11:26,
KJV
, “esteeming,”
RV
, “accounting.”