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Mark 14:7, the two words
$
, “well,” and
, “to do,” are in some mss. treated as one
verb
$
, “to do good.”
GOODMAN
(
*
, 3617) denotes “the master of a house” (
, “a
house,”
, “a master”), “a householder.” It occurs only in the Synoptists, and there
12 times. It is rendered “goodman” in Luke 22:11, where “of the house” is put separately;
in Matt. 20:11, where the
KJV
has “the goodman of the house” for the one word, the
RV
renders it by “householder,” as in v. 1; in 24:43, “master”; so in Luke 12:39; in Mark
14:14, both have “the goodman of the house. See
HOUSEHOLDER
,
MASTER
.
GOODS
1. For the neuter plural of
, used as a noun, “goods,” see Luke 12:18, 19,
where alone this word is so rendered.
2.
$ @
(
> $
, 5223), primarily, “subsistence,” then, “substance, property,
goods” (akin to
$
, “to exist, be, belong to”), is translated “goods” in Acts 2:45;
“possession.”
RV
(
KJV
, “substance”) in Heb. 10:34.¶
3.
(
&
, 979), which denotes (a) “life, lifetime,” (b) “livelihood, living, means of
living,” is translated “goods” in 1 John 3:17,
RV
(
KJV
, “good). See
LIFE
, No. 2.
4.
$
(
, 4632), “a vessel,” denotes “goods” in Matt. 12:29; Mark 3:27;
Luke 17:31,
RV
(
KJV
, stuff). See
VESSEL
.
Notes:
(1) The neuter plural of the present participle of
$
, is used as a noun
denoting “goods,” in Matt. 24:47,
KJV
“his goods,”
RV
, “that he hath”; “goods” in Matt.
25:14; Luke 11:21; 16:1; 19:8; 1 Cor. 13:3; in Heb. 10:34 (1st part). (2) In Luke 6:30 “thy
goods” translates the neuter plural of the possessive pronoun with the article, lit., “thy
things,” or possessions. (3) In Rev. 3:17, the
KJV
“I am … increased with goods”
translates the perfect tense of the verb
$
, “to be rich”;
RV
, “I have gotten riches.”
(4) See
SUBSTANCE
.
GORGEOUS, GORGEOUSLY
(
$
, 2986), “bright, splendid,” is rendered “gorgeous” in Luke 23:11
of the apparel in which Herod and his soldiers arrayed Christ. See
BRIGHT
.
Note:
For the
KJV
, “gorgeously apparelled” in Luke 7:25, see
GLORIOUS
, B.
GOSPEL (Noun and Verb: to preach)
A. Noun.
$
(
' !
, 2098) originally denoted a reward for good tidings; later, the
idea of reward dropped, and the word stood for “the good news” itself. The Eng. word
“gospel,” i.e. “good message,” is the equivalent of
$
(Eng., “evangel”). In the
NT it denotes the “good tidings” of the kingdom of God and of salvation through Christ,
to be received by faith, on the basis of His expiatory death, His burial, resurrection, and
ascension, e.g., Acts 15:7; 20:24; 1 Pet. 4:17. Apart from those references and those in
the gospels of Matthew and Mark, and Rev. 14:6, the noun is confined to Paul’s epistles.
The apostle uses it of two associated yet distinct things, (a) of the basic facts of the death,