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ἄμπελος, ου, ἡ (Hom.+; ins, pap, LXX; En 32:4; JosAs, GrBar, EpArist, Philo; Jos., Ant. 12, 75 κλήματα ἀμπέλων σὺν βότρυσιν; Just.; Ath. 22:6f; Did., Gen. 31, 27; s. Frisk s.v. on futile attempts to establish I-E. or Semitic origin) vine, grapevine

ⓐ lit. 1 Cl 23:4=2 Cl 11:3 (quot. of unknown orig.); Hs 5, 2, 5; 5, 2; 9, 26, 4. τὸ γένημα τῆς ἀ. (cp. Is 32:12) Mt 26:29; Mk 14:25; Lk 22:18. μὴ δύναται ποιῆσαι ἄ. σῦκα; can a grapevine yield figs? Js 3:12 (Plut., Mor. 472e τὴν ἄμπελον σῦκα φέρειν οὐκ ἀξιοῦμεν; Epict. 2, 20, 18 πῶς δύναται ἄμπελος μὴ ἀμπελικῶς κινεῖσθαι, ἀλλʼ ἐλαϊκῶς κτλ.;). Trained on elm trees Hs 2:1ff. τρυγᾶν τοὺς βότρυας τῆς ἀ. τῆς γῆς to harvest the grapes fr. the vine of the earth (i.e. fr. the earth, symbol. repr. as a grapevine) Rv 14:18f; but ἀ may be taking on the meaning of ἀμπελών, as oft. in pap, possibly PHib 70b, 2 [III B.C.]; PTebt 24, 3; PAmh 79, 56; PFlor 50, 2; Greek Parchments fr. Avroman in Medina (JHS 34, 1914); Aelian, NA 11, 32 p. 286, 12 Hercher acc. to the mss. (see p. xl); Themistius 21 p. 245d; Aesop mss. (Ursing 77f). In the endtime: dies, in quibus vineae nascentur, singulae decem milia palmitum habentes Papias (1:2; cp. En 10:19).—Lit. on οἶνος 1 and συκῆ. HLutz, Viticulture … in the Ancient Orient 1922; ILöw, D. Flora d. Juden I 1928, 48–189.

ⓑ fig. of Christ and his disciples: he is the vine, they the branches J 15:1, 4f (cp. Cornutus 27 p. 51, 3, where the pleasant state for the ἄμπ. is τὸ πολυφόρον κ. καθαρόν; Sir 24:17 of wisdom: ἐγὼ ὡς ἄ. ἐβλάστησα χάριν; Did., Gen. 86, 11 ἡ ψυχὴ ποτὲ μὲν ἄμπελος, ποτὲ δὲ πρόβατον, ποτὲ νύμφη … λέγεται). The words of the eucharistic prayer over the cup in D 9:2 cannot be explained w. certainty εὐχαριστοῦμέν σοι … ὑπὲρ τῆς ἁγίας ἀ. Δαυὶδ τοῦ παιδός σου, ἧς ἐγνώρισας ἡμῖν διὰ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ παιδός σου (s. AHarnack, TU II 1f, 1884 ad loc.; 6, 225ff; RKnopf, Hdb. ad loc.)—M-M. TW.

ἄνθρωπος, ου, ὁ (Hom.+; loanw. in rabb.; ἡ ἄνθρωπος [Hdt. 1, 60, 5] does not appear in our lit.) ‘human being, man, person’.

① a person of either sex, w. focus on participation in the human race, a human being

ⓐ ἐγεννήθη ἄ. J 16:21; εἰς χεῖρας ἀ. Mk 9:31; ψυχὴ ἀνθρώπου Ro 2:9; συνείδησις ἀ. 2 Cor 4:2; μέτρον ἀ. Rv 21:17.

ⓑ in contrast to animals, plants, etc. Mt 4:19; 12:12; Mk 1:17; Lk 5:10; 1 Cor 15:39; 2 Pt 2:16; Rv 9:4, 7; 13:18 al. To angels (cp. Aristaen. 1, 24, end σάτυροι οὐκ ἄνθρωποι) 1 Cor 4:9; 13:1. To God (Aeschyl., Ag. 663 θεός τις οὐκ ἄνθ.; Aeschines 3, 137 θεοὶ κ. δαίμονες; Ael. Aristid. 30 p. 578 D.; Herm. Wr. 14, 8 θεοὺς κ. ἀνθρ.; οὐκ ἐλογίσατο ὅτι ἄ. ἐστιν PsSol 2:28) Hb 13:6 (Ps 117:6); Mt 10:32f; 19:6; Mk 10:9; J 10:33 (ἄνθ. ὤν=‘as a mortal human’, a favorite formula: X., An. 7, 6, 11; Menand., Epitr. 592 Kö.; Fgm.: 46; 395, 2 Kö; Comp. I 282; Alexis Com., Fgm. 150; Polyb. 3, 31, 3; Chariton 4, 4, 8 [WBlake ’38]; Heliod. 6, 9, 3; As early as Eur., Hipp. 472ff ἄνθρωπος οὖσα … κρείσσω δαιμόνων εἶναι θέλειν); Ac 10:26; 12:22; 14:11, 15; 1 Th 2:13; Phil 2:7. ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων human precepts Mt 15:9; Mk 7:7 (Is 29:13); w. οὐρανός (=God) Mt 21:25; Mk 11:30. ἀδύνατα παρὰ ἀνθρώποις Lk 18:27, cp. Mt 19:26. δοῦλοι ἀνθρώπων people’s slaves 1 Cor 7:23. πείθειν and ἀρέσκειν ἀ. Gal 1:10. μεσίτης θεοῦ καὶ ἀ. 1 Ti 2:5 al. θεὸς πάντας ἀνθρώπους θέλει σωθῆναι 1 Ti 2:4 (cp. Epict. 3, 24, 2 ὁ θεὸς πάντας ἀνθρώπους ἐπὶ τὸ εὐδαιμονεῖν ἐποίησεν).

ⓒ in pl. w. gener. mng. (cp. Hom., Il. 21, 569; Od. 1, 351) οἱ ἄ. people, also one’s associates (Jos., Ant. 9, 28) Mt 5:13, 16; 6:1f, 5, 14, 18; 7:12; 8:27; 23:5; Mk 8:27 and often. οἱ τότε ἄ. the people of that time Pol 3:2.—οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων the offspring of human beings or simply human beings, people (Gen 11:5; 1 Esdr 4:37; Ps 10:4; En10:7 al.; PsSol 9:4) Mk 3:28; Eph 3:5. Sim. ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀ. as a self-designation of Jesus but s. next, also 2a and υἱός 2dγ.

ⓓ Jesus Christ is called ἄ. as one who identifies with humanity (cp. ὁ Σωτὴρ ἄ. γενόμενος Did., Gen. 41, 28) 1 Ti 2:5; Hb 2:6a (Ps 8:5a; cp. Just., A II, 6, 4). He is in contrast to Adam Ro 5:15; 1 Cor 15:21, the πρῶτος ἄ. 1 Cor 15:45, 47 (cp. Philo, Abr. 56; s. DDD 112) as δεύτερος ἄ. vs. 47. On the nature and origin of this concept cp. Ltzm. and JWeiss on 1 Cor 15:45ff; WBousset, Kyrios Christos² 1921, 120 ff, Jesus der Herr 1916, 67ff; Rtzst., Mysterienrel.³ 343ff, Erlösungsmyst. 107ff; ARawlinson, The NT Doctrine of the Christ 1926, 124ff; BStegmann, Christ, the ‘Man from Heaven’, a Study of 1 Cor 15:45–47: The Cath. Univ., Washington 1927; CKraeling, Anthropos and Son of Man 1927. S. on Ἀδάμ and on οὐρανός 2b.—On ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀ. as a self-designation of Jesus s.c end, above, and υἱός 2dγ.

② a member of the human race, w. focus on limitations and weaknesses, a human being

ⓐ of physical aspect Js 5:17; subject to death Hb 9:27; Rv 8:11; Ro 5:12; sunken in sin (cp. fr. a different perspective Menand., Fgm. 432 Kö [499 K.] ἄνθρωπος ὢν ἥμαρτον; Herodas 5, 27 ἄνθρωπός εἰμι, ἥμαρτον; schol. on Apollon. Rhod. 4, 1015–17a σὺ ἄνθρωπος εἶ, οἷς τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν γίνεται ῥᾳδίως; cp. Orig. C. Cels. 3, 62, 17) 5:18f al., hence judged to be inferior Gal 1:1, 11f; Col 2:8, 22 (Is 29:13) or even carefully to be avoided προσέχειν ἀπὸ τ. ἀ. beware of (evil) men Mt 10:17; cp. Lk 6:22, 26.

ⓑ of status κατὰ ἄνθρωπον (Aeschyl., Sept. 425; Pla., Phileb. 370f; Diod S 16, 11, 2; Athen. 10, 444b; Plut., Mor. 1042a; Witkowski 8, 5 [252 B.C.]) in a human way, from a human standpoint emphasizes the inferiority of human beings in comparison w. God; λαλεῖν 1 Cor 9:8; λέγειν Ro 3:5; Gal 3:15; περιπατεῖν 1 Cor 3:3. κ. ἄ. ἐθηριομάχησα perh. like an ordinary man (opp. as a Christian sure of the resurrection) 15:32. Of the gospel οὐκ ἔστιν κ. ἄ. Gal 1:11. Pl. κ. ἀνθρώπους (opp. κ. θεόν) 1 Pt 4:6.

③ a male person, man

ⓐ adult male, man (Pla., Prot. 6, 314e, Phd. 66, 117e; Gen. 24:26ff; PsSol 17:17; TestAbr A 3 p. 79, 25 [Stone p. 6]; ParJer 5:20) Mt 11:8; Lk 7:25. σκληρὸς εἶ ἄ. Mt 25:24; cp. Lk 19:21f. In contrast to woman (Achilles Tat. 5, 22, 2; PGM 36, 225f; 1 Esdr 9:40; Tob 6:8) Mt 19:5; prob. Lk 13:19 (cp. vs. 21); Eph 5:31 (both Gen 2:24); 1 Cor 7:1; Ox 840, 39.

ⓑ married person husband Mt 19:10.

ⓒ an immediate descendant son, opp. father (Sir 3:11) Mt 10:35.

ⓓ a person owned and therefore under the control of another slave (X., Mem. 2, 1, 15, Vect. 4, 14; Herodas 5, 78; BGU 830, 4; POxy. 1067, 30; 1159, 16) Lk 12:36. οἱ τοῦ πυρὸς ἄ. the persons in charge of the fire MPol 15:1; ἄ. τοῦ μεγάλου βασιλέως AcPl Ha 9, 1 (Aa I 111, 10). Perh. J 6:7.

④ practically equiv. to the indef. pron., w. the basic mng. of ἄ. greatly weakened (cp. 1c.) someone, one, a person.

ⓐ without the art.

α. used w. τὶς: ἐὰν γένηταί τινι ἀνθρώπῳ Mt 18:12. ἄνθρωπός τις κατέβαινεν a man was going down Lk 10:30. ἀνθρώπου τινὸς πλουσίου 12:16. ἄ. τις ἦν ὑδρωπικός 14:2, cp. vs. 16; 15:11; 16:1, 19; 19:12. ἦν τις ἄ. ἐκεῖ J 5:5. τινῶν ἀ. αἱ ἁμαρτίαι 1 Ti 5:24.

β. without τὶς, and somet. nearly equiv. to it (Paus. 5, 7, 3 ἐξ ἀνθρώπου=from someone) εἷς ἄ.=εἷς τις an individual J 11:50, cp. 18:14. εἶδεν ἄνθρωπον καθήμενον he saw someone sitting Mt 9:9. ἰδοὺ ἄ. χεῖρα ἔχων ξηράν there was someone with a shriveled hand 12:10. λαβὼν ἄ. a person took 13:31; cp. Mk 1:23; 3:1; 4:26; 5:2; 7:11; 10:7 (Gen 2:24); Lk 2:25; 4:33; 5:18; 6:48f; 13:19; J 3:4, 27 al. Used w. negatives ἄ. οὐκ ἔχω I have nobody J 5:7. οὐδέποτε ἐλάλησεν οὕτως ἄ. nobody has ever spoken like that 7:46.

γ. in indef. and at the same time general sense, oft.= one (Ger. man, Fr. on) οὕτως ἡμᾶς λογιζέσθω ἄ. lit. this is how one or a person (i.e. you) should regard us 1 Cor 4:1; cp. Mt 16:26; Ro 3:28; 1 Cor 7:26; 11:28; Gal 2:16; 6:7; Js 2:24.

δ. w. relative foll. δεῦτε ἴδετε ἄ. ὸ̔ς εἶπέν μοι come and see someone who (contrast w. ἀνήρ vss. 16–18) told me J 4:29. ἄ. ὸ̔ς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ὑμῖν λελάληκα 8:40. For Ac 19:16 s. 6 below.

ε. used pleonastically w. a noun (cp. usage s.v. ἀνήρ 1dα) (Il. 16, 263; Lev 21:9; Sir 8:1; 1 Macc 7:14) ἄ. φάγος a glutton Mt 11:19; Lk 7:34; ἄ. ἔμπορος a merchant Mt 13:45; ἄ. οἰκοδεσπότης vs. 52; 21:33; ἄ. βασιλεύς (Horapollo 2, 85; Jos., Ant. 6, 142) 18:23; 22:2; ἄ. θηριομάχος AcPl Ha 5, 30.—Likew. w. names indicating local or national origin (X., An. 6, 4, 23; Ex 2:11 ἄ. Αἰγύπτιος) ἄ. Κυρηναῖος a Cyrenaean Mt 27:32; ἄ. Ἰουδαῖος Ac 21:39; ἄ. Ῥωμαῖος 16:37; 22:25. W. adj., giving them the character of nouns (Menand., Fgm. 518 Kö ἄ. φίλος; PFlor 61, 60; PAmh 78, 13 ἄ. αὐθάδης; PStras 41, 40 πρεσβύτης ἄ. εἰμι; Sir 8:2 al.) ἄ. τυφλός (EpJer 36) a blind person J 9:1; ἄ. ἁμαρτωλός (Sir 11:32; 32:17) vs. 16; ἄ. αἱρετικός Tit 3:10. Likew. w. ptc. ἄ. σπείρων a sower Mt 13:24.

ζ. pleonastic are also the combinations τίς ἄ.; who? Mt 7:9; Lk 15:4; πᾶς ἄ. (PsSol 2:9; 17:27 [both times after οὐ]; ParJer 8:7; cp. Just., D. 3) everyone J 2:10; Js 1:19; πάντες ἄ. all people Ac 22:15, everyone 1 Cor 7:7; εἷς ἄ. J 11:50; δύο ἄ. Lk 18:10. Likew. the partitive gen. ἀνθρώπων w. οὐδείς (cp. Mimnermus 1, 15f Diehl² οὐ δέ τίς ἐστιν ἀνθρώπων) Mk 11:2; Lk 19:30, μηδείς Ac 4:17, τίς 19:35; 1 Cor 2:11.—MBlack, An Aramaic Approach³, ’67, 106f.

ⓑ w. the generic art. (Wsd 2:23; 4 Macc 2:21; PsSol 5:16; Just., D. 20, 2) ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἄ. the good person, opp. ὁ πονηρὸς ἄ. the evil person Mt 12:35. οὐκ ἐπʼ ἄρτῳ ζήσεται ὁ ἄ. no one can live on bread (Dt 8:3) 4:4. κοινοῖ τὸν ἄ. defiles a person 15:11, 18; cp. Mk 7:15, 20; τὸ σάββατον διὰ τὸν ἄ. ἐγένετο 2:27; τί ἦν ἐν τῷ ἀ. J 2:25; κρίνειν τὸν ἄ. 7:51; ὁ νόμος κυριεύει τοῦ ἀ. Ro 7:1; ὁ ποιήσας ἄ. everyone who does it 10:5 (Lev 18:5; 2 Esdr 19:29); κακὸν τῷ ἀ. τῷ διὰ προσκόμματος ἐσθίοντι wrong for anyone who eats w. misgivings Ro 14:20 al.

ⓒ w. qualifying gen. ἄνθρωποι εὐδοκίας Lk 2:14 (εὐδοκία 1). ὁ ἄ. τῆς ἀνομίας (v.l. ἁμαρτίας) 2 Th 2:3. ἄ. (τοῦ) θεοῦ man of God 1 Ti 6:11; 2 Ti 3:17; 2 Pt 1:21 v.l. (3 Km 12:22; 13:1; 17:24; 4 Km 1:9ff; 2 Ch 8:14 al.; TestJob 53:4; EpArist 140; Philo, Gig. 61, Deus Imm. 138f. But also Sextus 2; 3; Herm. Wr. 1, 32; 13, 20; PGM 4, 1177, where no comma is needed betw. ἄ. and θ. Cp. Callim. 193, 37 [Pf.]).

⑤ a being in conflict at a transcendent level

ⓐ the two sides of human nature as ὁ ἔξω ἄ. the outer being, i.e. human beings in their material, transitory, and sinful aspects 2 Cor 4:16, and, on the other hand, ὁ ἔσω ἄ. the inner being, i.e. humans in their transcendent significance, striving toward God Ro 7:22; 2 Cor 4:16; Eph 3:16 (cp. Pla., Rep. 9, 589a ὁ ἐντὸς ἄνθρωπος; Plotinus, Enn. 5, 1, 10 ὁ εἴσω ἄ.; Philo, Plant. 42 ὁ ἐν ἡμῖν πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἄ., τουτέστιν ὁ νοῦς, Congr. Erud. Grat. 97, Det. Pot. Insid. 23; Zosimus in Rtzst., Poim. 104 ἔσω αὐτοῦ ἄνθρωπος πνευματικός. Cp. Rtzst., Mysterienrel.³ 354f; WGutbrod, D. paulin. Anthropologie ’34; KSchäfer, FTillmann Festschr. ’34, 25–35; RJewett, Paul’s Anthropological Terms, ’71, 391–401). Similar in mng. is ὁ κρυπτὸς τῆς καρδίας ἄ. the hidden person of the heart=ὁ ἔσω ἄ. 1 Pt 3:4.

ⓑ from another viewpoint, w. contrast of παλαιὸς and καινὸς (νέος) ἄ. Ro 6:6; Eph 4:22, 24; Col 3:9 (cp. Dg 2:1; Jesus as καινὸς ἄ. IEph 20:1 is the new being, who is really God), or of ὁ ψυχικὸς ἄ. and ὁ πνευματικὸς ἄ. 1 Cor 2:14f (s. πνευματικός 2aγ). τὸν τέλειον ἄ. GMary 463, 27.

⑥ a person who has just been mentioned in a narrative, w. the art. the person (Diod S 37, 18 ὁ ἄ. εἶπε; Just., A II, 2, 12) Mt 12:13; Mk 3:5; 5:8; J 4:50; Ac 19:16 al.

⑦ a pers. perceived to be contemptible, a certain person w. a connotation of contempt (Diogenianus Epicureus [II A.D.] in Eus., PE 6, 8, 30 calls Chrysippus, his opponent, contemptuously ὁ ἄ.; Artem. 5, 67 ἡ ἄνθρωπος of a prostitute; UPZ 72, 6 [152 B.C.]; BGU 1208 I, 25; Plut., Mor 870c.—ASvensson [ὁ, ἡ, τό beg.]; AWilhelm, Anzeiger der Ak. d. W. in Wien, phil.-Hist. Kl. ’37 [XXIII–XXVI 83–86]) οὐκ οἶδα τὸν ἄ. I don’t know the fellow (of Jesus, as oft. in these exx.) Mt 26:72, 74; Mk 14:71. προσηνέγκατέ μοι τὸν ἄ. τοῦτον Lk 23:14; ὁ ἄ. οὕτος AcPl Ox 6, 18 (= Aa I 242, 1). εἰ ὁ ἄ. Γαλιλαῖός ἐστιν Lk 23:6. τίς ἐστιν ὁ ἄ. J 5:12. ἰδοὺ ὁ ἄ. here’s the fellow! 19:5 (on the attempt to arouse pity, cp. Nicol. Dam.: 90 Fgm. 68, 4 Jac., Cyrus in connection w. the downfall of Croesus; Diog. L. 2:13 Pericles in the interest of Anaxagoras, his teacher; Jos., Ant. 19, 35f). μὴ οἰέσθω ὁ ἄ. ἐκεῖνος such a person must not expect Js 1:7.

⑧ in address, varying from a familiar tone to one that is more formal ἄνθρωπε friend (X., Cyr. 2, 2, 7; Plut., Mor. 553e) indicating a close relationship between the speaker and the one addressed Lk 5:20; sir Ἄνθρωπε, ποῦ πορεύῃ; ‘Sir, where are you going?’ GJs 19:1 (not pap), the woman is a stranger to Joseph. W. a reproachful connotation, man! (Diogenes the Cynic in Diog. L. 6, 56; Diod S 33, 7, 4; Chariton 6, 7, 9; Ps.-Callisth. 1, 31, 1) Lk 12:14; 22:58, 60; Hm 10, 1, 2 (ἄνθρωπος Joly). Also in rhetorical address, in a letter Ro 2:1, 3; 9:20 (Pla., Gorg. 452b σὺ δὲ … τίς εἶ, ὦ ἄνθρωπε); Js 2:20. (Cp. Pla., Apol. 16 p. 28b; Epict. index Schenkl; Mi 6:8; Ps 54:14.—JWackernagel, Über einige antike Anredeformen: Progr. Gött. 1912.)

⑨ a heavenly being that looked like a person, a human figure of GPt 11:44 (cp. Just., D. 58, 10 ἐν ἰδέᾳ ἀνθρώπου [on Gen 32:25]; Tat. 21, 1 θεὸν ἐν ἀνθρώπου μορφῇ γεγονέναι).—JNielen, D. Mensch in der Verkünd. der Ev.: FTillmann Festschr. ’34, 14–24; Gutbrod op. cit. 2cα; WKümmel, Man in the NT, tr. JVincent, ’63; also Vock and Seiler ἀνήρ end.—B. 80. EDNT (lit.). DELG. M-M. TW. Sv.

ἐκβάλλω fut. ἐκβαλῶ; 2 aor. ἐξέβαλον; plpf. ἐκβεβλήκειν Mk 16:9. Pass.: 1 fut. ἐκβληθήσομαι; aor. ἐξεβλήθην; pf. 3 sg. ἐκβέβληται (Just.), ptc. ἐκβεβλημένος (Hom.+) gener. ‘to throw out’, then

① force to leave, drive out, expel, τινά (SIG 1109, 95; PTebt 105, 31; Gen 3:24 al.; Jos., Bell. 1, 31, Ant. 1, 58) Mt 21:12 (Chariton 3, 2, 12 πάντας ἐ. fr. the temple of Aphrodite; Lysimachus: 621 Fgm. 1, 306 Jac. [in Jos., C. Ap. 1, 306] God demands that the Egyptian king ἐκβάλλειν ἐκ τῶν ἱερῶν those who are unclean; CRoth, Cleansing of the Temple and Zech 14:21: NovTest 4, ’60, 174–81; for lit. on Jesus’ action s. DSeeley, CBQ 55, ’93, 263 n. 1); Mk 1:12 is perh. to be understood in this sense, cp. Gen 3:24, but s. 2 below; Mk 5:40; 11:15; Lk 19:45; 20:12. Pass. Mt 9:25; Hs 1, 4; 9, 14, 2. τινὰ or τὶ ἔκ τινος (Dio Chrys. 49 [66], 3; SIG 317, 12; PLond III, 887, 6 p. 1 [III B.C.]; PMagd 12, 11=PEnteux 54, 11; Ex 6:1; Num 22:6 al.; Philo, Cher. 10) J 2:15; Hs 8, 7, 5. ἀπό τινος (Ex 23:31; Num 22:11; 2 Ch 11:16; Philo, Det. Pot. Ins. 163; Jos., Ant. 13, 352; Just., D. 92, 2 ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰερουσαλήμ) Ac 13:50. ἔξω τινός out of someth. (Lev 14:40; 1 Macc 13:47 v.l.): a city (Hyperid. 5:31) Lk 4:29; Ac 7:58; cp. Hs 1:6; ἐ. ἔξω (without amplification as 2 Ch 29:16) J 6:37; 9:34f (s. below); Ac 9:40. Pass. Lk 13:28; J 12:31 (βάλλω P⁶⁶ et al.). W. the destination given ἐ. εἴς τι drive someone out into someth. (Dt 29:27; 2 Ch 29:16; Jer 22:28; Mel., P. 48): into the darkness outside (cp. En 10:4) Mt 8:12; 22:13; 25:30.—From a vineyard Mt 21:39; Mk 12:8; Lk 20:15; in these three passages throw out, toss out is prob. meant.—Mid., throw someth. overboard to save oneself: Ac 27:38 grain (the act. in this sense Diod S 3, 40, 5; τὰ ὑπάρχοντα En 101:5; Jos., Bell. 1, 280).—Used esp. of the expulsion of spirits who have taken possession of a pers. (Jos., Ant. 6, 211; Just. A II, 10, 6 δαίμονας … ἐκβαλὼν τῆς πολιτείας; PGM 4, 1227 πρᾶξις γενναία ἐκβάλλουσα δαίμονας; 1252; 1254) Mt 8:31; 9:33f; 10:1, 8; 12:26; 17:19; Mk 1:34, 39, 43; 3:15, 23; 6:13; 7:26 (ἔκ τινος); 9:18, 28; 16:9 (παρά τινος); Lk 9:40; 11:14; 13:32. W. the means given (Lucian-Epigr. in Anth. Pal. 11, 427 δαίμονα ἐ. δυνάμει) τῷ σῷ ὀνόματι by your name Mt 7:22. λόγῳ with a word 8:16. For this ἔν τινι by someone or someth. by the ruler of the evil spirits 9:34; Mk 3:22; by Beelzebul Mt 12:24, 27; Lk 11:15, 18f; by the name of Jesus Mk 9:38; 16:17; Lk 9:49; by the finger of God Lk 11:20; cp. vs. 19; ἐν πνεύματι θεοῦ Mt 12:28.—GSterling, Jesus as Exorcist: CBQ 55, ’93, 467–93.— Expel someone fr. a group, repudiate someone (Pherecyd. 83 Zeus expels insolent deities) a servant girl Gal 4:30 (Gen 21:10); a wife (Demosth. 59, 63; 83; Diod S 12, 18, 1; BGU 1050, 15; PGiss 2, 23; Lev 21:7; Pr 18:22a; Sir 7:26; Jos., Ant. 16, 215; 17, 78) Agr 18; ἐκ τ. ἐκκλησίας ἐ. 3J 10 (cp. POxy 104, 17; Jos., Bell. 2, 143). Vss. J 9:34f, referred to above, prob. belong here too, since the Johannine love of multiple meaning has combined the mngs. drive out of the audience-room and expel from the synagogue.—Idiom: λόγους ἐ. εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω cast words behind oneself=pay no attention to them 1 Cl 35:8 (Ps 49:17); ἐ. τὸ ὄνομα disdain, spurn the name Lk 6:22 (cp. Pla., Crito 46b and Rep. 2, 377c; Soph., Oed. Col. 636; 646); difft., Wlh. ad loc.; s. Black, An Aramaic Approach³, ’67, 135f, w. special ref. to Dt 22:14, 19.

② to cause to go or remove from a position (without force), send out/away, release, bring out (PRyl 80, 1 [I A.D.] ἐκβάλετε … ὑδροφύλακας; 1 Macc 12:27) workers Mt 9:38; Lk 10:2 (cp. PMich 618, 15f [II A.D.]); send away Js 2:25; release Ac 16:37; lead out (Μαρτύριον τῆς ἁγ. Αἰκατερίνας 18 p. 17 Viteau: ἐκέλευσεν ὁ βας. ἐκβληθῆναι αὐτὴν ἐκ τ. φυλακῆς; Theophanes, Chron. 388, 28) Mk 1:12 (but s. 1 above); bring out of sheep J 10:4 (cp. Hs 6, 2, 6; Longus 3, 33, 2 προσέβαλλε ταῖς μητράσι τοὺς ἄρνας; BGU 597, 4 ἵνα βάλῃ τὸν μόσχον πρὸ τ. προβάτων).

③ to cause someth. to be removed from someth., take out, remove (1 Macc 13:48; Diosc. 1, 50; s. Rydbeck 155–58; 184) a beam or splinter ἐκ τ. ὀφθαλμοῦ Mt 7:4f; Lk 6:42; Ox 1 verso, 2 (ASyn. 68, 44) (cp. GTh 26; Aesop. p. 28 Ursing ἐκβάλλεις ἄκανθα[ν] ἐκ ποδῶν μου); bring out τὶ someth. (Horapollo 2, 105; TestAbr A 6, p. 83, 23 [Stone p. 14] ἐκ τοῦ κόλπου ‘[pearls] out of the purse’) ἐκ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ θησαυροῦ ἐ. τὰ ἀγαθά out of the good treasure (=the tr. of the good) that which is good Mt 12:35; 13:52; take out a sum of money Lk 10:35. Of an eye, tear out and throw away Mk 9:47 (Syntipas p. 101, 2; cp. La 3:16 ἐ. ὀδόντας). Of material in the body (Ps.-Plut., Hom. 205; schol. on Nicander, Alexiph. 485; cp. Ps.-Aristot., Mirabilia 6 οἱ κυνηγοὶ εἰς ἀγγεῖον αὐτὴν [=τὴν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κόπρον] ἐμβάλοντες=the hunters let their excrement fall into a pot.—ἐκβ. τι=let someth. fall Diog. L. 6, 35) evacuate Mt 15:17.

④ to pay no attention to, disregard τὴν αὐλὴν τὴν ἔξωθεν τοῦ ναοῦ ἔκβαλε ἔξωθεν leave out (of consideration) the outer court of the temple Rv 11:2 (Epicurus in Diog. L. 10, 147 ἐ. τι=disregard someth.; M. Ant. 12, 25 βάλε ἔξω τὴν ὑπόληψιν=do not concern yourself about … ; Mitt-Wilck. II/2, 372 VI, 22f [II A.D.] τὸ ἀναγνωσθὲν δάνειον ἐκβάλλω=I pass over, omit. On the belief of Jerusalem’s inhabitants that the temple could be saved, while the beleagured city was ruined, s. Jos., Bell. 5, 459).

⑤ to bring someth. about, cause to happen, bring ἐ. εἰς νῖκος τὴν κρίσιν lead justice on to victory Mt 12:20 (s. κρίσις 3).—B. 713. M-M. TW.

ἐκκλησία, ας, ἡ (ἐκ + καλέω; Eur., Hdt.+)

① a regularly summoned legislative body, assembly, as gener. understood in the Gr-Rom. world (Jos., Ant. 12, 164; 19, 332, Vi. 268) Ac 19:39 (on ‘[regular] statutory assembly’, s. ἔννομος and IBM III/2, p. 141. The term ἐννόμη ἐ. here contrasts w. the usage vss. 32 and 40, in which ἐ. denotes simply ‘a gathering’; s. 2 below. On the ἐ. in Ephesus cp. CIG III, 325; IBM III/1, 481, 340; on the ἐ. in the theater there s. the last-named ins ln. 395; OGI 480, 9).—Pauly-W. V/2, 1905, 2163–2200; RAC IV 905–21 (lit.).

② a casual gathering of people, an assemblage, gathering (cp. 1 Km 19:20; 1 Macc 3:13; Sir 26:5) Ac 19:32, 40.

③ people with shared belief, community, congregation (for common identity, cp. the community of Pythagoras [Hermippus in Diog. L. 8, 41]. Remarkably, in Himerius, Or. 39 [Or. 5], 5 Orpheus forms for himself τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, a group of wild animals, who listen to him, in the Thracian mountains where there are no people), in our lit. of common interest in the God of Israel.

ⓐ of OT Israelites assembly, congregation (Dt 31:30; Judg 20:2; 1 Km 17:47; 3 Km 8:14; PsSol 10:6; TestJob 32:8 τῆς εὐώδους ἐ.; Philo; Jos., Ant. 4, 309; Diod S 40, 3, 6) Hb 2:12 (Ps 21:23); e.g. to hear the law (Dt 4:10; 9:10; 18:16) Ac 7:38.

ⓑ of Christians in a specific place or area (the term ἐ. apparently became popular among Christians in Greek-speaking areas for chiefly two reasons: to affirm continuity with Israel through use of a term found in Gk. translations of the Hebrew Scriptures, and to allay any suspicion, esp. in political circles, that Christians were a disorderly group).

α. of a specific Christian group assembly, gathering ordinarily involving worship and discussion of matters of concern to the community: Mt 18:17; συνερχομένων ὑμῶν ἐν ἐ. when you come together as an assembly 1 Cor 11:18; cp. 14:4f, 12, 19, 28, 35; pl. vs. 34. ἐν ἐ. ἐξομολογεῖσθαι τὰ παραπτώματα confess one’s sins in assembly D 4:14; cp. 3J 6 (JCampbell, JTS 49, ’48, 130–42; for the Johannines s. ESchweizer below). In Ac 15:22 the ‘apostles and elders’ function in the manner of the βουλή or council, the committee of the whole that was responsible in a Gr-Rom. polis for proposing legislation to the assembly of citizens.—Of Christians gathering in the home of a patron house-assembly (‘house-church’) Πρίσκαν καὶ Ἀκύλαν … καὶ τὴν κατʼ οἶκον αὐτῶν ἐ. Ro 16:5; cp. 1 Cor 16:19. Νύμφαν καὶ τὴν κατʼ οἶκον αὐτῆς ἐ. Col 4:15; ἡ κατʼ οἶκόν σου ἐ. Phlm 2.—FFilson, JBL 58, ’39, 105–12; other reff. οἶκος 1aα.—Pl. ἐ. τῶν ἁγίων 1 Cor 14:33; ἐ. τῶν ἐθνῶν Ro 16:4.—1 Ti 5:16 prob. belongs here, s. βαρέω b.

β. congregation or church as the totality of Christians living and meeting in a particular locality or larger geographical area, but not necessarily limited to one meeting place: Ac 5:11; 8:3; 9:31 (so KGiles, NTS 31, ’85, 135–42; s. c below), 11:26; 12:5; 15:3; 18:22; 20:17; cp. 12:1; 1 Cor 4:17; Phil 4:15; 1 Ti 5:16 perh., s. α above; Js 5:14; 3 J 9f; 1 Cl 44:3; Hv 2, 4, 3. More definitely of the Christians in Jerusalem Ac 8:1; 11:22; cp. 2:47 v.l.; 15:4, 22; Cenchreae Ro 16:1; cp. vs. 23; Corinth 1 Cor 1:2; 2 Cor 1:1; 1 Cl ins; 47:6; AcPlCor 1:16; Laodicea Col 4:16; Rv 3:14; Thessalonica 1 Th 1:1; 2 Th 1:1; Colossae Phlm subscr. v.l. Likew. w. other names: Rv 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 7; IEph ins; 8:1; IMg ins; ITr ins; 13:1; IRo 9:1; IPhld ins; 10:1; ISm 11:1; Pol ins. Plural: Ac 15:41; 16:5; Ro 16:16; 1 Cor 7:17; 2 Cor 8:18f, 23f; 11:8, 28; 12:13; Rv 2:7, 11, 17, 23, 29; 3:6, 13, 22; 22:16; the Christian community in Judea Gal 1:22; 1 Th 2:14; Galatia Gal 1:2; 1 Cor 16:1; Asia vs. 19; Rv 1:4, and cp. vss. 11 and 20; Macedonia 2 Cor 8:1. κατʼ ἐκκλησίαν in each individual congregation or assembly Ac 14:23 (on the syntax cp. OGI 480, 9 [s. 1 above]: ἵνα τιθῆνται κατʼ ἐκκλησίαν in order that they [the statues] might be set up at each [meeting of the] ἐ.). On κατὰ τ. οὖσαν ἐ. Ac 13:1 cp. εἰμί 1 end.

ⓒ the global community of Christians, (universal) church (s. AvHarnack, Mission I⁴ 420 n. 2 on Ac 12:1): Mt 16:18 (OBetz, ZNW 48, ’57, 49–77: Qumran parallels; s. HBraun, Qumran I, ’66, 30–37); Ac 9:31 (but s. 3bβ); 1 Cor 6:4; 12:28; Eph 1:22; 3:10, 21; 5:23ff, 27, 29, 32 (HSchlier, Christus u. d. Kirche im Eph 1930; also ThBl 6, 1927, 12–17); Col 1:18, 24; Phil 3:6; B 7:11; Hv 2, 2, 6; 2, 4, 1 (with the depiction of the church as an elderly lady cp. Ps.-Demetr. 265 where Hellas, the homeland, is represented as λαβοῦσα γυναικὸς σχῆμα); 3, 3, 3; IEph 5:1f and oft.—The local assembly or congregation as well as the universal church is more specif. called ἐ. τοῦ θεοῦ or ἐ. τ. Χριστοῦ. This is essentially Pauline usage, and it serves to give the current Gk. term its Christian coloring and thereby its special mng.:

α. ἐ. τοῦ θεοῦ (Orig., C. Cels. 1, 63, 22) 1 Cor 1:2; 10:32; 11:16, 22; 15:9; 2 Cor 1:1; Gal 1:13; 1 Th 2:14; 2 Th 1:4; 1 Ti 3:5, 15; Ac 20:28; ITr 2:3; 12:1; IPhld 10:1; ISm ins al.

β. ἐ. τοῦ Χριστοῦ (Orig., C. Cels. 5, 22, 14) Ro 16:16.

γ. both together ἐ. ἐν θεῷ πατρὶ καὶ κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ 1 Th 1:1.

δ. ἡ ἐ. ἡ πρώτη ἡ πνευματική the first, spiritual church (conceived in a Platonic sense as preexistent) 2 Cl 14:1; ἐ. ζῶσα the living church the body of Christ vs. 2; ἡ ἁγία ἐ. Hv 1, 1, 6; 1, 3, 4; ἡ καθολικὴ ἐ. ISm 8:2; ἡ ἁγία καὶ καθολικὴ ἐ. MPol ins; ἡ κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην καθολικὴ ἐ. 8:1; 19:2; ἓν σῶμα τῆς ἐ. ISm 1:2.—The literature before ’32 is given in OLinton, D. Problem der Urkirche in d. neueren Forschung (s. esp. 138–46) ’32 and AMedebielle, Dict. de la Bible, Suppl. II ’34, 487–691; before ’60, s. RAC; also s. TW, Sieben, and JHainz, Ekklesia ’72. Esp. important: EBurton, Gal (ICC) 1921, 417–20; KHoll, D. Kirchenbegriff des Pls usw.: SBBerlAk 1921, 920–47=Ges. Aufs. II 1928, 44ff; FKattenbusch, D. Vorzugsstellung d. Petrus u. d. Charakter d. Urgemeinde zu Jerusalem: KMüller Festschr. 1922, 322–51; KLSchmidt, D. Kirche des Urchristentums: Dssm. Festschr. 1927, 259–319, TW III 502–39. S. also: EPeterson, D. Kirche aus Juden u. Heiden ’33; KLSchmidt, D. Polis in Kirche u. Welt ’39; WBieder, Ekkl. u. Polis im NT u. in d. alten Kirche ’41; OMichel, D. Zeugnis des NTs v. d. Gemeinde ’41; NDahl, D. Volk Gottes ’41; RFlew, Jesus and His Church², ’43; GJohnston, The Doctrine of the Church in the NT ’43; WKümmel, Kirchenbegriff u. Geschichtsbewusstsein in d. Urg. u. b. Jesus ’43; DFaulhaber, D. Johev. u. d. Kirche ’38; AFridrichsen, Kyrkan i 4. ev.: SvTK 16, ’40, 227–42; ESchweizer, NT Essays (Manson memorial vol.) ’59, 230–45; EWolf, Ecclesia Pressa—eccl. militans: TLZ 72, ’47, 223–32; SHanson, Unity of the Church in the NT ’46; HvCampenhausen, Kirchl. Amt u. geistl. Vollmacht in den ersten 3 Jahrh. ’53; EKäsemann, Sätze hlg. Rechtes im NT, NTS 1, ’55, 248–60; AGeorge, ET 58, ’46/47, 312–16; in ATR: JBernardin 21, ’39, 153–70; BEaston 22, ’40, 157–68; SWalke 32, ’50, 39–53 (Apost. Fath.); JMurphy, American Ecclesiastical Review 140, ’59, 250–59; 325–32; PMinear, Images of the Church in the NT, ’60; BMetzger, Theology Today 19, ’62, 369–80; ESchweizer, Church Order in the NT, tr. FClarke ’61; RSchnackenburg, The Church in the NT, tr. WO’Hara ’65; LCerfaux, JBL 85, ’66, 250–51; AHilhorst, Filología Neotestamentaria 1, ’88, 27–34. S. also ἐπίσκοπος 2 end; Πέτρος; πέτρα 1.—B. 1476f. DELG s.v. καλέω. M-M. EDNT. TW. Sv.

ἐκλεκτός, ή, όν (ἐκ + λέγω; since Pla., Leg. 12, 946d+).

① pert. to being selected, chosen gener. of those whom God has chosen fr. the generality of mankind and drawn to himself Mt 20:16 v.l.; 22:14 (B 4:14; KStendahl, The Called and the Chosen: The Root of the Vine, ed. AFridrichsen ’53, 63–80). Hence of Christians in particular (as in the OT of the Israelites 1 Ch 16:13; Ps 88:4; 104:6, 43; Is 65:9, 15, 23 al.—PAltmann, Erwählungstheol. u. Universalismus im AT, Beih. 92, ZAW, ’64) chosen 24:22, 24, 31; Mk 13:20, 22, 27; 1 Pt 1:1; 2 Ti 2:10; 1 Cl 6:1; 58:2; Hv 2, 4, 2. ἐ. τοῦ θεοῦ (cp. En 1:8) Lk 18:7 (cp. 1QS 8:6; 1QH 2:13); Ro 8:33 (cp. the Qumran passages just cited); 16:13 (s. 3 below); Col 3:12; Tit 1:1; 1 Cl 1:1; 2:4; 46:3f, 8; 49:5; 59:2; 2 Cl 14:5; Hv 1, 3, 4; 2, 1, 3; 2, 2, 5; 2, 4, 2; 3, 5, 1; 3, 8, 3; 3, 9, 10; 4, 2, 5; 4, 3, 5; EpilMosq 5. W. κλητοί ApcPt Rainer 2 and 5. W. κλητοί and πιστοί (SibOr 3, 69 w. πιστοί) Rv 17:14. γένος ἐκλεκτόν 1 Pt 2:9 (Is 43:20; TestJob 1:5). Of a Christian assembly or congregation 2J 1, 13 (w. personification of the assembly); ITr ins. Opp. ἄπιστοι MPol 16:1; ἅγιοι ἐ. 22:1.

② pert. to being esp. distinguished, elect

ⓐ gener. of angels 1 Ti 5:21 (after En 39:1).

ⓑ of the Messiah ὁ ἐ. τοῦ θεοῦ (cp. En 39:6f; 40:5; 45:3–5; 49:2–4 al.) Lk 23:35 (cp. 9:35); J 1:34 v.l. (AvHarnack, SBBerlAk 1915, 552–56=Studien I ’31, 127–32; GDelling, Jüd. Lehre u. Frömmigkeit in den ParJer, Berlin ’67, 18f).

ⓒ of David 1 Cl 52:2 (Ps 88:20; cp. Sir 47:22).

③ pert. to being considered best in the course of a selection, choice, excellent (PRein 43, 9; BGU 603, 18 and 38; Ps 17:27; Sir 24:15; Bar 3:30; Wsd 3:14) ἀνὴρ ἐ. (EpArist 13; SibOr 3, 521) IPhld 11:1. Perh. Ro 16:13 ὁ ἐ. ἐν κυρίῳ the outstanding Christian. In imagery of a picked or elite stone (cp. Strabo 1, 3, 18 after Ibycus [Fgm. 21 Diehl] λίθος, ὸ̔ν καλεῖ ἐκλεκτόν = λόγαιον ‘picked’; En 8:1) 1 Pt 2:4, 6; B 6:2 (both Is 28:16); here a connection w. sense 2 is readily perceived.—DELG s.v. λέγω. M-M. EDNT. TW.

ἐνοικέω fut. ἐνοικήσω; 1 aor. ἐνῴκησα (3 sg. ἐνοίκησεν TestSim 5:1) (Eur., Hdt.+) live, dwell (in) in our lit.—except for Lk 13:4 v.l.—always w. ἔν τινι (PEnteux 14, 4f [III B.C.]; UPZ 162 II, 18f [II B.C.] and s. pap [e.g. BASP XXXII p. 124 ln. 7]) and of God or of nonphysical entities that ‘make their home’ in or among people: ἐνοικήσω ἐν αὐτοῖς I will live among them 2 Cor 6:16. Of the Holy Spirit, which makes its home in people Ro 8:11; 2 Ti 1:14. Of the word of Christ Col 3:16. Of faith 2 Ti 1:5. Of sin Ro 7:17 v.l. (cp. TestSim 5:1). V.l. for κατοικέω B 16, 10.—DELG s.v. οἶκος IIc. M-M.

ἐρωτάω fut. ἐρωτήσω; 1 aor. ἠρώτησα; 2 aor. ἠρόμην, fr. ἔρομαι, s. Schwyzer I 746, 7 (Just., D. 3, 5; Ath. 35, 1). Pass.: 1 aor. 3 sg. ἠρωτήθη 2 Km 20:18, inf. ἐρωτηθήναι (TestAbr B 4 p. 108, 22 [Stone p. 64]), ptc. ἐρωτηθείς (TestSol 11, 1 C); pf. ptc. ἠρωτημένος 2 Km 20:18.

① to put a query to someone, ask, ask a question (Hom.+) abs. (Da 2:10; 1 Macc 10:72) Lk 22:68. τινά someone (Lucian, D. Deor. 7, 1; Gen 24:47; 40:7; Ex 13:14 al.; En 22:6; TestSol 7:4 al.; TestJob 47:5; Just., D. 3, 5) J 1:25; 8:7; 9:21; 16:19, 30 al. τινά τι someone about someth. (X., Mem. 3, 7, 2, Cyr. 3, 3, 48; Job 21:29; TestSol 3:6 D; Jos., Ant. 6, 48; Just., D. 68, 4) ὑμᾶς λόγον ἕνα ask you one question Mt 21:24=Lk 20:3 (cp. Pla., Leg. 10, 895e; Jer 45:14; ApcSed 8:5 al.; TestJob 36:5); αὐτὸν τὰς παραβολάς ask him about the parables Mk 4:10. Certainly J 16:23 belongs here too. τινὰ περί τινος someone about someth. (2 Esdr 11:2; Is 45:11; Just., D. 94, 4) Mt 19:17; Lk 9:45; J 18:19. W. τινά and direct question (X., An. 1, 6, 7; TestSol 15:2 al.; TestAbr A 10 p. 87, 30 [Stone p. 22]; GrBar 9:5 al.; Just., D. 99, 3) Mk 8:5; Lk 19:31; J 1:19, 21; 5:12; 16:5; the direct quest. introduced by λέγων or λέγοντες (En 23:3; TestSol 7:3 al.; TestJob 44:4; ParJer 2:4) Mt 16:13; J 9:2, 19. W. τινά and indir. quest. foll. (X., Cyr. 8, 5, 19; Just., A I, 17, 2, D. 64, 3) 9:15. Cp. Lk 23:6 P⁷⁵ (s. ed. note and s.v. ἐπερωτάω 1a; ἐρωτ. εἰ also Thu. 1, 5, 2).

② to ask for someth., ask, request (Babrius 42, 3; 97, 3; Apollon. Dysc., Synt. 3, 167 Uhlig ἐρωτῶ σε νῦν ἐν ἴσῳ τῷ παρακαλῶ σε, λιτανεύω, ἱκνοῦμαι; SIG 705, 56 [112 B.C.]; 741, 5 [after 88 B.C.]; POxy 744, 6; 13 [1 B.C.]; 292, 7 [c. 25 A.D.]; 110; 111; 113; 269; 745; 746 al.; Jer 44:17; Jos., Ant. 7, 164; TestSim 4:1.—Dssm., B 30; 31; 45, NB 23f [BS 195f; 290f]) τὶ for someth. Lk 14:32 (s. εἰρήνη 1 a). περί τινος for someth. Hv 3, 1, 6b (w. ἵνα foll.). τὶ περί τινος for someth. concerning a thing 3, 1, 6a. W. acc. of pers.: τινά someone J 14:16 (Field, Notes 101f). τ. κύριον Hv 2, 2, 1 (Jos., Ant. 5, 42 ἐ. τ. θεόν; SibOr 2, 309). Foll. by λέγων, which introduces the request in direct discourse Mt 15:23; Lk 7:4 v.l.; J 4:31; 12:21. W. impv. foll. (BGU 423, 11 ἐρωτῶ σε οὖν, γράψον μοι ἐπιστόλιον; POxy 745, 7; 746, 5) Lk 14:18f; Phil 4:3. τινὰ περί τινος beseech someone on someone’s behalf (JosAs 15:7 περὶ τῶν μετανοούντων ἐρωτᾷ αὐτόν [about the topic Μετάνοια]) Lk 4:38; J 16:26; 17:9, 20; concerning someth. 1J 5:16, sim. ὑπέρ τινος 2 Th 2:1 (on the interchange of περί and ὑπέρ s. B-D-F §229, 1; 231; Rob. 629; 632). τινὰ κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου beseech someone by the Lord Hv 3, 2, 3 (B-D-F §225). W. ἵνα foll. (POxy 744, 13 [1 B.C.]) Mk 7:26; Lk 7:36; 16:27; J 4:47; 17:15; 19:31, 38; 2J 5. W. ὅπως foll. (SIG 741, 5 [after 88 B.C.]; PTebt 409, 4; 6; En 13:4) Lk 7:3; 11:37; Ac 23:20. W. inf. foll. (Chariton 8, 7, 3; PTebt 410, 11; PRyl 229, 8 [38 A.D.]; POxy 292, 7 [c. 25 A.D.]; Jos., Ant. 6, 328) Lk 5:3; 8:37; J 4:40; Ac 3:3; 10:48; 16:39; 18:20; 1 Th 5:12. Foll. by εἰς and subst. inf. 2 Th 2:1.—ἐ. and παρακαλέω together (POxy 744, 6; 294, 28 [22 A.D.]. S. the quot. fr. Apollon. Dysc., above) 1 Th 4:1.— Urge w. inf., impv. et al. B 4:6; 21:2, 4, 7.—B. 1264; 1271. DELG s.v. ἐρέω. M-M. TW.

Ἑβραί̈ς, ί̈δος, ἡ (ἑβρ-S., M.; Ἐβρ-W-H.—Fem. of Ἑβραῖος, Jos., Ant. 2, 225f and of Ἑβραϊκός, Kühner-Bl. II 274, 1) ἡ Ἑ. διάλεκτος (cp. Ἑ. φωνή 4 Macc 12:7; 16:15; Just., A I, 31, 1 and 3 al.) the Hebr. language Ac 21:40; 22:2; 26:14; Papias (2:16). These pass. refer to the Aramaic spoken at that time in Palestine.—Zahn. Einl.³ I 18f; Dalman, Jesus 6ff (Eng. 7ff). But PNepper-Christensen, Das Matthäusevangelium ’58, 101–35 and JGrintz, JBL 79, ’60, 32–47 hold that some form of Hebrew was commonly spoken.—TW.

Ἑσρώμ, ὁ (also Ἐ-, Ἑσρών, Ἐσρών) indecl. Hezron, in the genealogy of Jesus (1 Ch 2:5 v.l., 9; in Ruth 4:18f v.l.) Mt 1:3; Lk 3:33.

ἡδέως adv. of ἡδύς (Soph., Hippocr.+) pert. to being pleased in connection with someth., gladly (Aristoph., Thu. et al.) λαμβάνειν (Aristoph., Equ. 440) ITr 6:2. ἡδ. ἀκούειν like to hear (Jos., Ant. 3, 191; Just., D. 10, 4; 59, 1) Mk 6:20; 12:37; Hm 2:2. ἀνέχεσθαι gladly tolerate 2 Cor 11:19. ἡδ. ποιεῖν (Ps.-Menand., Dist. Fgm. 704 Kock; POxy 113, 30; PGrenf II, 73, 20) do gladly Hs 6, 5, 5. βαστάζειν 8, 10, 3; 9, 14, 6. ὑποδέχεσθαι 8, 10, 3; 9, 27, 2. Ἰσαὰκ ἡδ. προσήγετο θυσία. I. gladly let himself be led as a sacrifice 1 Cl 31:3. ὸ̔ν καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἡδέως ἔχει (the child) of whom even Caesar is fond Ox 849, 16f. Restored text: [ἡδέως θλείβον]ται Hs 8, 10, 4f (s. Bonner 113, 18f, based on Lat. libenter patiuntur).—Comp. ἥδιον (Lysias 7, 40; IPriene 105, 19 [c. 9 B.C.]; BGU 372 I, 15; Sir 22:11; Just., D. 29, 1) more gladly ἥδ. διδόναι 1 Cl 2:1 (cp. μακάριος 2bγ). ὑπομιμνῄσκειν 62:3. Superl. as elative (B-D-F §60, 2; Rob. 278f; 670; M-M s.v.) ἥδιστα very gladly (Pla., Theaet. 183d; Lucian, Scyth. 8; POxy 1061, 21 [22 B.C.]; 933, 5; PLond III, 897, 8 p. 207 [84 A.D.]; Jos., Vi. 365) 2 Cor 12:15; Ac 13:8 D. ἥδιστα μᾶλλον καυχήσομαι I will rather boast all the more gladly 2 Cor 12:9 (s. B-D-F §246).—B. 1032. DELG s.v. ἥδομαι B (ἡδύ). M-M. Spicq.

Ἰάννης, ὁ Jannes, named w. Jambres as one of the Egyptian sorcerers who (Ex 7:11ff) opposed Moses before Pharaoh 2 Ti 3:8. The names go back to Jewish tradition (Schürer III 781–83; MDibelius, Hdb. ad loc.; TestSol 25:4, whence Numenius of Apamea [II A.D.] in Eus., PE 9, 8, 1 got them). Μαμβρῆς appears as v.l. for Ἰαμβρῆς, reflecting variation in the mss. A Jewish apocryphal work bearing both names has disappeared except for the title (Schürer, loc. cit.).—RJames, JTS 2, 1901, 572ff; The Damascus Document (Kl. T. 167) 5, 19f (cp. CD 5, 18f and SSchechter, Fragments of a Zadokite Work 1910, pp. xxxvii and lixf); Billerb. III 660–64; LGrabbe, The Jannes-Jambres Tradition in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and Its Date: JBL 98, 79, 393–401; APietersma, The Apochryphon of Jannes and Jambres the Magician—PChesterBeatty XVI (EPROR 119) ’94.—BHHW II, 802. TW.

ἰατρός, οῦ, ὁ (s. ἰάομαι; Hom.+)

① one who undertakes the cure of physical ailments, physician Mt 9:12; Mk 2:17; Lk 5:31 (cp. on these pass. Plut., Mor. 230f, Phocion 746 [10, 5]; Stob., Floril. III p. 462, 14 H. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἰατρὸς ὑγιείας ὢν ποιητικὸς ἐν τοῖς ὑγιαίνουσι τὴν διατριβὴν ποιεῖται=no physician who can produce cures wastes time among the healthy); Ox 1 recto, 9–14 (ASyn. 33, 85, s. GTh 31; cp. Dio Chrys. 8 [9], 4 νοσοῦντες ἐπιδημοῦντος ἰατροῦ μὴ προσῄεσαν said in irony, of sick people unwilling to consult a resident physician); Mk 5:26 (Sb 8266, 13ff [161/160 B.C.] when physicians refuse to help, the god Amenothis intervenes with a miracle). ἰατροῖς προσαναλίσκειν ὅλον τὸν βίον spend all of one’s money on physicians Lk 8:43 v.l. (PStras 73, 18f, a physician’s fee of 20 drachmas; Diod S 32, 11, 3 a physician διπλοῦν ἀπῄτει τὸν μισθόν. But some physicians are honored for accepting no remuneration, s. FKudlien, in Sozialmassnahmen und Fürsorge, ed. HKloft, ’88, 90–92; s. also Danker, Benefactor, nos. 1–4 for positive view). Given as the profession of one named Luke Col 4:14 (Heraclid. Pont., Fgm. 118 W. Ἀσκληπιάδης ὁ ἰ.; Strabo 10, 5, 6 p. 486 Ἐρασίστρατος ὁ ἰ.; Sb 8327 [ins II A.D.] Ἀπολλώνιος ἰατρός). In a proverb (s. Jülicher, Gleichn. 172f; EKlostermann and FHauck ad loc.) ἰατρὲ θεράπευσον σεαυτόν physician, heal yourself Lk 4:23 (Eur., Fgm. 1086 Nauck² ἄλλων ἰατρὸς αὐτὸς ἕλκεσιν βρύων. Aesop, Fab. 289 P.=H. 78 and 78b=Babr. 120 πῶς ἄλλον ἰήσῃ, ὸ̔ς σαυτὸν μὴ σῴζεις).—Papias (3:2); AcPl Ha 5, 34. For IEph 7:2 s. 2.

② one who undertakes the healing of supra-physical maladies, physician (of the soul) (Diog. L. 3, 45 an epigram calls Plato the ἰητὴρ ψυχῆς; schol. on Pla. 227a ὁ Σωκράτης ἰατρὸς περὶ ψυχήν; Diod S 34+35 Fgm. 17, 1 τῆς λύπης ὁ κάλλιστος ἰατρὸς χρόνος; Philo, Spec. Leg. 2, 31 ἰ. ἁμαρτημάτων) of God (s. DRahnenführer, Das Testament des Hiob, ZNW 62, ’71, 76; Aristoph., Av. 584 and Lycophron 1207; 1377 of Apollo; Simplicius in Epict. p. 41, 51 God as ἰατρός; Ael. Aristid. 47, 57 K.=23 p. 459 D.: Asclepius as ἀληθινὸς ἰατρός) Dg 9:6. Of Jesus Christ ἰ. σαρκικὸς καὶ πνευματικός physician of body and soul (or ph. who is flesh and spirit) IEph 7:2. s. JOtt, D. Bezeichnung Christi als ἰατρός in d. urchristl. Literatur: Der Katholik 90, 1910, 457f; AvHarnack, Mission⁴ I 1923, 129ff; RAC I 720–25. On medical practice in the Gr-Rom. world s. ANRW II Principat 37, 1–3, 93–96.—B. 308. DELG s.v. ἰάομαι. M-M. SEG XXXIX, 1804. TW.

ἱκανός, ή, όν (s. three next entries; Trag., Hdt.+; ins, pap, LXX; PsSol 5:17; TestNapht 2:4; JosAs 28:11; ParJer 6:6 [שַׁדַּי]; ApcSed 2:3; EpArist, Philo, Joseph., Just.; Tat. 36, 2 ἱκανώτατος; loanw. in rabb.).

① sufficient in degree, sufficient, adequate, large enough ἱκανόν ἐστιν it is enough (Epict. 1, 2, 36; 3 Km 16:31; the copula is oft. omitted: Gen 30:15; Ezk 34:18; Just., D. 13, 1) Lk 22:38 (WWestern, ET 52, ’40/41, 357 ‘large’ or ‘long enough’). εἴ τινι μὴ δοκοίη κἂν ταῦτα ἱκανά if this should seem insufficient to anyone Dg 2:10. Latinism (B-D-F §5, 3b; Mlt. 20f) τὸ ἱκανὸν ποιεῖν τινι satisfacere alicui= satisfy (Polyb. 32, 3, 13; Appian, Lib. 74; BGU 1141, 13 [14 B.C.] ἐάν σοι Ἔρως τὸ ἱκανὸν ποιήσῃ γράψον μοι; POxy 293, 10; PGiss 40 I, 5); also possible is do someone a favor (so plainly Diog. L. 4, 50 = grant your request) Mk 15:15 (cp. χαρίζομαι PFlor I, 61, 61 [85 A.D.]=Mitt-Wilck. II/2, 80 II, 61, of one ‘worthy to be flogged’ ἄξιος … μαστιγωθῆναι ln. 59f); Hs 6, 5, 5; τὸ ἱ. pledge, security, bond (POxy 294, 23 [22 A.D.]; BGU 530, 38; PStras 41, 51) λαμβάνειν τὸ ἱ. satis accipere= take bail (OGI 484, 50; 629, 101 [both II A.D.]) Ac 17:9.

② pert. to meeting a standard, fit, appropriate, competent, qualified, able, w. the connotation worthy, good enough (Thu.; Diod S 13, 106, 10; POxy 1672, 15; Ex 4:10) πρός τι for someth. (Pla., Prot. 322b; 2 Macc 10:19; EpArist 211) 2 Cor 2:16 (FFallon, HTR 76, ’83, 369–74, ‘divine man’ motif). W. inf. foll. (Hdt. 8, 36; Jos., Ant. 1, 29; 5, 51; Just., D. 8, 2; B-D-F §393, 4; Rob. 658) Mt 3:11; Mk 1:7; Lk 3:16; 1 Cor 15:9; 2 Cor 3:5 (Dodd 15f); 2 Ti 2:2 (Jos., Ant. 3, 49 εἰπεῖν ἱ.); 1 Cl 50:2. Also w. ἵνα foll. (B-D-F §393, 4; Rob. 658; cp. PHolm 4, 23) Mt 8:8; Lk 7:6; J 1:27 v.l.—S. ITr 3:3 cj. Lghtf.

③ pert. to being large in extent or degree, considerable

ⓐ of pers. ὄχλος a large crowd Mk 10:46; Lk 7:12; Ac 11:24, 26; 19:26 (SIG 569, 14 πλῆθος ἱ.; PPetr II, 20; II, 7; PLille 3, 76 [III B.C.]; Jos., Ant. 5, 250). λαὸν ἱ. large following 5:37 v.l.

ⓑ of things κλαυθμός weeping aloud Ac 20:37 (= there was quite a bit of crying). φῶς a very bright light Ac 22:6.—ἱκανὸν ἡ. ἐπιτιμία the punishment is severe enough 2 Cor 2:6 (on the lack of agreement in gender s. B-D-F §131; Rob. 411).—ἀργύρια a rather large sum of (lit. ‘enough’, i.e. ‘substantial bribe’ REB) money Mt 28:12 (cp. SIG 1106, 74; 77).—Esp. of time ἐξ ἱκανοῦ for a long time Lk 23:8 v.l. ἐφʼ ἱκανόν enough, as long as one wishes; for a long time (Polyb. 11, 25, 1; Diod S 11, 40, 3; 13, 100, 1; SIG 685, 34; 2 Macc 7:5; 8:25; EpArist 109) Ac 20:11. ἱ. χρόνος a considerable time (Aristoph.; Pla., Leg. 5 p. 736c; SIG 665, 12; UPZ 161, 29 [119 B.C.] ἐφʼ ἱ. χρόνον; Jos., Ant. 7, 22, C. Ap. 1, 237) ἱ. χρόνον διέτριψαν Ac 14:3 (Just., D. 2, 3). ἱ. χρόνου διαγενομένου 27:9. ἱκανῷ χρόνῳ for a long time Lk 8:27; Ac 8:11 (on the dat. s. B-D-F §201; Rob. 527). Pl. Lk 20:9 (B-D-F §201; Rob. 470). ἐξ ἱ. χρόνων for a long time 23:8; ἐκ χρόνων ἱ. Mt 8:27 v.l.; for this ἀπὸ χρόνων ἱ. Lk 8:27 D. ἐπὶ ἱ. χρόνον Qua.

④ in relatively large numbers, many, quite a few

ⓐ of pers. abs. ἱκανοί many, quite a few (Mitt-Wilck. I/2, 11 B Fr. (a), 10 [123 B.C.]; PTebt 41, 13 ἱκανῶν ἡμῶν; 1 Macc 13:49; Jos., Ant. 14, 231) Ac 12:12; 14:21; 19:19; 1 Cor 11:30 (quite a few, contrast πολλοί as Ac 19:18f); cp. μαθηταί Lk 7:11 v.l.

ⓑ of things λαμπάδες a good many lamps Ac 20:8. ἀγέλη χοίρων ἱκανῶν Lk 8:32. ἐν λόγοις ἱ. w. many words = at length Lk 23:9. Superl. κεράμια ἱκανώτατα a large number of jars Hm 12, 5, 3 (SIG 736, 108 ξύλα ἱ.).

ⓒ of periods of time ἀπὸ ἱ. ἐτῶν for many years Ro 15:23 v.l. (cp. 2 Macc 1:20). ἡμέραι ἱ. (UPZ 162 II, 15 [117 B.C.] ἐφʼ ἱκανὰς ἡμέρας) Ac 9:23; ἡμέρας ἱ. for many days 9:43; 18:18. Also ἐν ἱ. ἡμέραις 27:7.—B. 927. DELG s.v. ἵκω. M-M. TW. Spicq.

ἴασπις, ιδος, ἡ (Pla. et al.; SIG² 587, 87f [IV B.C.]; PGM 12, 203 ἴασπιν; LXX; TestSol; Jos., Bell. 5, 234, Ant. 3, 168. Occasionally also masc., e.g., Petosiris, Fgm. 29) jasper, a precious stone found in various colors, mostly reddish, somet. green (Cyranides p. 23, 22 λίθος χλωρός), brown, blue, yellow, and white. In antiquity the name was not limited to the variety of quartz now called jasper, but could designate any opaque precious stone. Rv 21:18f. W. λίθος 4:3 (TestSol C 11:8). λίθος ἴασπις κρυσταλλίζων a stone of crystal-clear jasper 21:11 (cp. Is 54:12); perh. the opal is meant here; acc. to some, the diamond. S. on ἀμέθυστος.—DELG. M-M.

ὁράω (Hom.+) impf. 3 pl. ἑώρων (J 6:2 v.l. for ἐθεώρουν); pf. ἑώρακα and ἑόρακα (s. B-D-F §68), 3 pl. ἑώρακαν beside ἑόρακαν and ἑωράκασιν (Mlt-H. 221); plpf. ἑωράκειν Hv 2, 1, 3; fut. ὄψομαι, 2 sg. ὄψῃ (W-S. §13, 18). Pass.: 1 fut. ὀφθήσομαι; 1 aor. ὤφθην, by-form ὡράθην Ezk 12:12; 21:29; Da 1:15 Theod.; pf. 3 sing. ὦπται Ex 4:1, 5; Hv 3, 1, 2, inf. ὦφθαι or ἑωρᾶσθαι (Just.); plpf. 3 sg. ὦπτο. (Just.). In Byz. times there was an aor. mid. ὠψάμην (Lob. on Phryn. p. 734). There is a subjunctive form corresponding to this in one place in the NT, though not without a v.l.; it is ὄψησθε (v.l. ὄψεσθε) Lk 13:28. The functions of the aor. active are taken over by εἶδον and the forms belonging to it (s. εἶδον). βλέπω is, for the most part, used for the pres. and impf. On the use of ὁράω and βλέπω s. Reinhold p. 95ff.

A. trans.

① to perceive by the eye, catch sight of, notice

ⓐ w. acc. of pers. Mt 28:7, 10; Mk 16:7; Lk 16:23; J 8:57; 9:37; 14:9; 16:16f, 19, 22; 20:18 (PPerkins, Int 46, ’92, 31–41), 25, 29; 1J 4:20a; Rv 1:7; AcPl Ha 6, 17; Κλαύδ̣ιε ὅ̣[ρα Παῦλον] 8, 1. θεὸν οὐδεὶς ἑώρακεν πώποτε (s. PGM 5, 101f of Osiris ὸ̔ν οὐδεὶς εἶδε πώποτε) J 1:18; cp. 6:46ab; 1J 4:20b (on seeing God and its impossibility for mortals s. WGrafBaudissin, ‘Gott schauen’ in d. atl. Rel.: ARW 18, 1915, 173–239; RBultmann, ZNW 29, 1930, 169–92; EFascher: Marb. Theol. Studien ’31, 1, 41–77).—Also of the perception of personal beings that become visible in a transcendent manner (UPZ 78, 8 [159 B.C.] of a dream in the Sarapeum ὁρῶ τ. διδύμας; 69, 6; Just., D. 115, 3), of the vision of Christ that Paul had 1 Cor 9:1. The acc. is to be supplied fr. the context Hb 11:27; 1 Pt 1:8. W. acc. of the ptc. (B-D-F §416, 1; Rob. 1123.—UPZ 69, 6 [152 B.C.] ὁρῶ ἐν τῷ ὕπνῳ τὸν Μενέδημον ἀντικείμενον ἡμῖν; Ex 2:11, 13; TestJob 26, 6; ParJer 9:20; GrBar 1:3; Philo, Leg. All. 3, 38; Just., A I, 10, 1 al.) ὄψονται τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐρχόμενον Mt 24:30; Mk 13:26; Lk 21:27. ὄψεσθε τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου καθήμενον Mk 14:62 (NPerrin, The End-product of the Christian Pesher Trad., NTS 12, ’66, 150–55).

ⓑ w. acc. of thing ὀπτασίαν ὁρ. see a vision (s. ὀπτασία 1.—SIG 1169, 6; UPZ 68, 6 [152 B.C.] ἐνύπνια ὁρῶ πονηρά) Lk 1:22; 24:23. ὁράσεις Ac 2:17 (Jo 3:1). ταῦτα Lk 23:49. πάντα J 4:45. σημεῖα 6:2 v.l. (for ἐθεώρουν). S. also Hv 3, 2, 4. W. acc. of the ptc. (SIG 685, 75; 1169, 15; Ex 33:10; TestJob 37:8; Just., A I, 53, 9 al.) τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνεῳγότα J 1:51.—Hv 3, 8, 9. W. attraction of the relative ὧν=τούτων ἅ Lk 9:36; Ac 22:15. The attraction may be due to colloq. breviloquence in μάρτυρα ὧν τε εἶδές με ὧν τε ὀφθήσομαί σοι a witness to the things in which you saw me and to those in which I shall appear to you Ac 26:16b (difft. MDibelius, Aufsätze zur Apostelgeschichte, ed. HGreeven ’51, 83). Of God τ. πάντα ὁρᾷ PtK 2 p. 13, 24 (Ar. 4, 1; cp. 13, 8).—ὁρ. is a favorite word w. J, when he speaks of that which the preëxistent Son saw when he was with the Father (JSchneider, D. Christusschau des Joh.-ev. ’35; difft. LBrun, D. Gottesschau des joh. Christus: SymbOsl 5, 1927, 1–22) ὸ̔ ἑώρακεν J 3:32; cp. vs. 11. ἃ ἑώρακα παρὰ τῷ πατρί 8:38 (since this deals w. witness and speaking, the ‘perceiving’ could be thought of as ‘hearing’; what is heard is interpreted as an event. Cp. Diod S 13, 28, 5 ὁρᾷς;=do you hear [the outcry]?; schol. on Nicander, Ther. 165 ὁρῶ οἷα λέγεις; Polyaenus 7, 14, 2; Ex 20:18 λαὸς ἑώρα τὴν φωνήν, 22; Dt 4:9; also Philo, Migr. Abr. 47; SibOr 8, 125 βρυγμὸν ὁρ.). Of that which the apostolic witnesses saw of Christ 1J 1:1–3. Abs. ὁ ἑωρακώς the eye-witness J 19:35.

ⓒ ὁρ. τὸ πρόσωπόν τινος as a periphrasis for see someone (cp. Gen 43:3, 5; 46:30) Ac 20:25; Col 2:1. ὁρ. το πρόσωπον τοῦ θεοῦ (=רָאָה אֶת־פְּנֵי י״י) Rv 22:4 (πρόσωπον 1bα). ὁρ. τὴν δόξαν τοῦ θεοῦ (=רָאָה אֶת־כְּבוֹד י״י) see the majesty of God (Is 66:18f; GkBar 6:12 al.) J 11:40. Simply ὁρ. τὸν θεόν see God Mt 5:8. ὀψόμεθα αὐτὸν καθώς ἐστιν 1J 3:2 (Maximus Tyr. 11, 11a τὸ μὲν ὅλον ὄψει τ. θεὸν τότε, ἐπειδὰν πρὸς αὐτὸν καλῇ). ὁρ. τὸν κύριον Hb 12:14.—On ἃ ἑόρακεν ἐμβατεύων Col 2:18 s. ἐμβατεύω.

ⓓ pass. in act. sense become visible, appear (Ael. Aristid. 51, 22 K.=27 p. 539 D.: ὤφθη τοιάδε; LXX) abs. Rv 11:19; 12:1, 3. τινί to someone Ac 2:3. ὅραμα διὰ νυκτὸς τ. Παύλῳ ὤφθη a vision appeared to Paul at night 16:9 (Jos., Ant. 2, 70 τὰ διὰ νυκτὸς ὀφθέντα).—Of pers. who appear in a natural way (Appian, Syr. 21 §96 ὤφθησαν=they made an appearance, Bell. Civ. 2, 130 §542; UPZ 145, 5 [164 B.C.]; 3 Km 3:16 ὤφθησαν δύο γυναῖκες τῷ βασιλεῖ) (Μωϋσῆς) ὤφθη αὐτοῖς Ac 7:26. Mostly of beings that make their appearance in a transcendent manner, almost always w. dat. of the pers. to whom they appear: God (Gen 12:7; 17:1 [cp. 1QapGen 22:27 God appears to Abraham]; PGM 4, 3090 ἕως ὁ θεός σοι ὀφθῇ; ParJer 7:20; Just., D. 56, 4 al.) Ac 7:2. Angels (Ex 3:2; Judg 6:12) Lk 1:11; 22:43 (LBrun, ZNW 32, ’33, 265–76); Ac 7:30, 35. Moses and Elijah Mt 17:3; Mk 9:4; Lk 9:31 (without the dat. in this pass.: ὀφθέντες ἐν δόξῃ). The risen Christ Lk 24:34; Ac 9:17; 13:31; 26:16a; 1 Cor 15:5–8 (cp. Ox 1 verso, 13; Unknown Sayings, 69–71); 1 Ti 3:16 (ὤφθη ἀγγέλοις: the triumphant Christ appears to the angelic powers); Hb 9:28 (Christ at his Second Coming).—οὐκ ἔτι σοι ὀφθήσεται it will be seen by you no longer (of evil desire) Hm 12, 2, 4 (Antig. Car. 11 ὁρᾶται=there is; Aristot. in Apollon. Paradox. 39 ὄφις ὤφθη=there was a snake).

② to see someone in the course of making a friendly call, visit (1 Km 20:29; JosAs 22:3) ὄψομαι ὑμᾶς Hb 13:23.

③ to experience a condition or event, experience, witness (cp. POxy 120, 4f τινὰ ὁρῶντα αἱαυτὸν [= ἑαυτὸν] ἐν δυστυχίᾳ; JosAs 6:5 τί … ἐγὼ ὄψομαι ἡ ταλαίπωρο; s. also Just., D. 61, 2) Lk 17:22 (s. εἶδον 4). ζωήν J 3:36 (cp. Lycophron 1019 βίον; Ps 88:49 θάνατον). μείζω τούτων 1:50. ὄψεται πᾶσα σὰρξ τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ θεοῦ Lk 3:6 (Is 40:5).

④ to be mentally or spiritually perceptive, perceive (Polystrat. p. 5 ὁρ. τῷ λογισμῷ; Simplicius, In Epict. p. 110, 47 Düb. τὸ ἀληθές), fig. ext. of 1:

ⓐ sensory aspect felt: w. acc. of the ptc. (Diod S 2, 16, 5; 4, 40, 2; Appian, Syr. 14 §55, Bell. Civ. 2, 14 §50; PHib 44, 4 [253 B.C.] ὁρῶντες δέ σε καταραθυμοῦντα; 4 Macc 4:24; 9:30; Jos., Vi. 373 ὄντα με ὁρ.; Just., A I, 43, 5; Ath. 2, 3) notice, perceive, understand εἰς χολὴν πικρίας … ὁρῶ σε ὄντα I perceive that you have fallen into the gall of bitterness (i.e. bitter jealousy) Ac 8:23. οὔπω ὁρῶμεν αὐτῷ τὰ πάντα ὑποτεταγμένα we do not yet see everything subjected to him Hb 2:8. W. acc. and inf. foll. Dg 1. W. ὅτι foll. (M. Ant. 9, 27, 2; Philo, Migr. Abr. 46; Just., D. 23, 3 al.) Js 2:24; 1 Cl 12:8; 23:4; 44:6. W. indir. quest foll. 1 Cl 16:17; 41:4; 50:1; 15:8; Dg 7:8. W. direct discourse foll. ὁρᾶτε 1 Cl 4:7.

ⓑ w. focus on cognitive aspect: look at or upon ὄψονται οἷς οὐκ ἀνηγγέλη περὶ αὐτοῦ they who have never been told of (Christ) shall look upon him Ro 15:21 (Is 52:15).— Consider ὅρα τοῦ ἀγγέλου τῆς πονηρίας τὰ ἔργα Hm 6, 2, 4.— Become conscious of ὁ κακοποιῶν οὐχ ἐώρακεν τ. θεόν 3J 11. Cp. 1J 3:6.

B. intr.

① to fix one’s gaze, look εἴς τινα on or at someone (Il. 24, 633; Od. 20, 373; Just., D. 112, 1) J 19:37 (s. ἐκκεντέω). ἄνω ὁρᾶν Dg 10:2 (cp. Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2, 140; Ovid, Matamorphoses 1, 85; other reff. EBlakeney, The Epistle to Diognetus ’43, 77f).

② to be alert or on guard, pay attention, see to it that foll. by μή and the aor. subj. (Diod S 27, 17, 3 ὁρᾶτε μήποτε ποιήσωμεν; Epict., Ench. 19, 2; Lucian, Dial. Deor. 8, 2; BGU 37, 5 [50 A.D.]; POxy 532, 15 ὅρα μὴ ἄλλως πράξῃς; 531, 9 ὅρα μηδενὶ ἀνθρώπων προσκρούσῃς.—B-D-F §364, 3) Mt 8:4; 18:10; Mk 1:44; 1 Th 5:15; 1 Cl 21:1; D 6:1.—W. μή and impv. (B-D-F §461, 1; Rob. 996) Mt 9:30; 24:6.—Elliptically (B-D-F §480, 5; Rob. 949) ὅρα μή (sc. ποιήσῃς) watch out! don’t do that! Rv 19:10; 22:9.—Used w. ἀπό τινος look out for someth. (B-D-F §149; Rob. 472) ὁρᾶτε καὶ προσέχετε ἀπὸ τῆς ζύμης τῶν Φαρισαίων look out (for) and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees Mt 16:6. ὁράτε, βλέπετε ἀπὸ τῆς ζύμης τῶν Φαρ. Mk 8:15. ὁράτε καὶ φυλάσσεσθε ἀπὸ πάσης πλεονεξίας Lk 12:15.

③ to accept responsibility for causing someth. to happen, look, see to, take care σὺ ὄψῃ see to that yourself! that’s your affair! Mt 27:4 (Men., Epitr. 493 S. [317 Kö.]; cp. the response of Titus and declaration of innocence at the time of Jerusalem’s destruction Jos., Bell. 6, 215); cp. vs. 24; Ac 18:15 (on this Latinism = videris s. DHesseling in B-D-F §362; Rob. 109f). Impv. followed by imperatival fut. ὅρα ποιήσεις πάντα see to it that you do everything Hb 8:5 (Ex 25:40; cp. 4:21). Foll. by indir. quest. (Ael. Aristid. 45 p. 121 D.: ὅρα τί ποιεῖς) ὅρα τί μέλλεις ποιεῖν take care what you are doing Ac 22:26 v.l.—B. 1042. Schmidt, Syn. I 244–70. DELG. M-M. EDNT. TW. Sv.

ὁρκωμοσία, ας, ἡ (composed of ὅρκον ὀμόσαι [ὄμνυμι] ‘to take an oath’) Doric.—The neut. ὁρκωμόσιον SIG 1007, 29 [130–100 B.C.] and its pl. OGI 229, 82 [III B.C.]. Pollux 1, 38; 1 Esdr 8:90; Ezk 17:18f; Jos., Ant. 16, 163.—B-D-F §2; 119, 3; s. Mlt-H. 338f; EFraenkel, Geschichte der griech. Nomina agentis auf-τήρ,-τωρ,-της I 1910, 200) the process of taking an oath, oath-taking, oath Hb 7:20f (no oath-taking is involved), 28 (oath-taking is involved).—DELG s.v. ὅρκος. M-M. TW.

ὄχλος, ου, ὁ (Pind., Hdt.+; ins, pap, LXX; TestJob 24:10; TestJud 7:1; ApcrEzk [Epiph. 70, 8]; EpArist, Philo, Joseph.; Ath. 1, 4; on relation of ὄχλος to ὀχλέω s. MMeier-Brüjger, Glotta 71, ’93, 28 [basic idea: a ‘pile’ that requires a ‘heap’ of workers, but s. DELG and Frisk s.v. ὄχλος]; loanw. in rabb.—In the NT only in the gospels [in Mk most freq. in sg. in contrast to Mt and Lk, s. RBorger, TRu 52, ’87, 28], Ac, and Rv).

① a relatively large number of people gathered together, crowd

ⓐ a casual gathering of large numbers of people without reference to classification crowd, throng Mt 9:23, 25; 15:35; Mk 2:4 (s. DDaube, ET 50, ’38, 138f); 3:9; Lk 5:1; J 5:13; 6:22; Ac 14:14; 21:34f and oft.; AcPl Ha 5, 11. τὶς ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου someone from the crowd Lk 12:13; cp. 11:27. ἀνὴρ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχ. 9:38. τινὲς τῶν Φαρισαίων ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου some of the Pharisees in the crowd 19:39. ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου away from the crowd Mk 7:17, 33. οὐκ ἠδύνατο ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου he could not because of the crowd Lk 19:3 (s. ἀπό 5a). οὐ μετὰ ὄχλου without a crowd (present) Ac 24:18 (cp. vs. 12). This is equivalent in mng. to ἄτερ ὄχλου (s. ἄτερ) when there was no crowd present Lk 22:6 (s. WLarfeld, Die ntl. Evangelien nach ihrer Eigenart 1925, 190), unless ὄχ. means disturbance (Hdt.+) here (so Goodsp.). ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ μετὰ τοῦ ὄχλου AcPl Ha 1, 24.—πᾶς ὁ ὄχλος (Aelian, VH 2, 6) the whole crowd, all the people Mt 13:2b; Mk 2:13; 4:1b; 9:15; Lk 13:17; Ac 21:27; MPol 9:2; 16:1. Also ὅλος ὁ ὄχλος AcPl Ha 4, 35.—πολὺς ὄχ. (Jos., Vi. 133; 277) Mt 14:14; Mk 6:34. ὄχ. πολύς (Cebes 1, 2; IG IV²/1, 123, 25; several times LXX) Mt 20:29; Mk 5:21, 24; 9:14; Lk 8:4; J 6:2. ὁ πολὺς ὄχ. Mk 12:37. ὁ ὄχ. πολύς J 12:9, 12.—ὄχ. ἱκανός a considerable throng Mk 10:46; Lk 7:12; Ac 11:24, 26; cp. 19:26. ὄχ. τοσοῦτος Mt 15:33. ὁ πλεῖστος ὄχ. the great throng or greater part of the crowd 21:8 (the verb in the pl. with a collective noun as Memnon [I B.C./I A.D.]: 434 Fgm. 1, 28, 6 Jac. εἷλον … ἡ Ῥωμαίων δύναμις. Cp. B-D-F §134, 1). Cp. Mk 4:1a. τὸ πλεῖον μέρος τοῦ ὄχ. the greater part of the throng Hs 8, 1, 16; τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ ὄχ. 9, 4, 4; αἱ μυριάδες τοῦ ὄχ. the crowd in myriads Lk 12:1.—The pl. is common in Mt, Lk, and Ac (acc. to later usage: X., Mem. 3, 7, 5; Dionys. Hal.; Ael. Aristid. 34, 47 K.=50 p. 564 D.; Jos., Ant. 6, 25 al. Schwyzer II 43; cp. Mussies 71 and 85) οἱ ὄχλοι the crowds, the people (the latter plainly Posidon.: 87 Fgm. 36, 51 Jac. συλλαλήσαντες αὑτοῖς οἱ ὄχ.; Diod S 1, 36, 10; 1, 83, 8 ἐν ταῖς τῶν ὄχλων ψυχαῖς; 1, 72, 5 μυριάδες τῶν ὄχλων; 4, 42, 3; 14, 7, 2 ὄχλων πλῆθος=a crowd of people; 36, 15, 2 οἱ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ὄχλοι=the people in the city; Artem. 1, 51 p. 59, 13 Pack; Vi. Aesopi G 124 P; Ps.-Aeschines, Ep. 10, 4 ἡμεῖς ἅμα τ. ἄλλοις ὄχλοις; Ps.-Demetr., Form. Ep. p. 7, 11; OGI 383, 151 [I B.C.]; Jos., Ant. 9, 3) Mt 5:1; 7:28; 9:8, 33, 36 and oft. Lk 3:7, 10; 4:42; 5:3; 8:42, 45 and oft. Ac 8:6; 13:45; 14:11, 13, 18f; 17:13. Mk only 6:33 v.l. J only 7:12a (v.l. ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ). MPol 13:1. Without art. Mk 10:1 (on the textual problem RBorger, TRu 52, ’87, 28); ὄχ. πολλοί (s. πολύς 2aαב) Mt 4:25; 8:1; 12:15; 13:2a; 15:30; 19:2; Lk 5:15; 14:25. πάντες οἱ ὄχ. Mt 12:23.—A linguistic parallel to the pl. ὄχλοι and a parallel to the type of political maneuvering in Mk 15:15 (ὁ Πιλᾶτος βουλόμενος τῷ ὄχλῳ τὸ ἱκανὸν ποιῆσαι ἀπέλυσεν αὐτοῖς τὸν Βαραββᾶν καὶ παρέδωκεν τὸν Ἰησοῦν φραγελλώσας ἵνα σταυρωθῇ) is offered by PFlor 61, 59ff [85 A.D.], where, according to the court record, G. Septimius Vegetus says to a certain Phibion: ἄξιος μὲν ἦς μαστιγωθῆναι … χαρίζομαι δέ σε τοῖς ὄχλοις (s. Dssm., LO 229 [LAE 266f], and on the favor of the ὄχλοι PGM 36, 275).

ⓑ a gathering of people that bears some distinguishing characteristic or status.

α. a large number of people of relatively low status the (common) people, populace (PJoüon, RSR 27, ’37, 618f) in contrast to the rulers: Mt 14:5; 15:10; 21:26; Mk 11:18, 32 (v.l. λαόν, q.v. 2); 12:12. Likew. the pl. οἱ ὄχ. (EpArist 271) Mt 21:46. The lower classes (X., Cyr. 2, 2, 21, Hier. 2, 3 al.) ἐπίστασις ὄχλου a disturbance among the people Ac 24:12. Contemptuously rabble J 7:49 (Bultmann ad loc. [w. lit.]).

β. a group or company of people with common interests or of distinctive status a large number (company, throng), w. gen. (Eur., Iph. A. 191 ἵππων al.; Jos., Ant. 3, 66; Ath, 1, 4 ὄχλον ἐγκλημάτων) ὄχ. τελωνῶν a crowd of tax-collectors Lk 5:29. ὄχ. μαθητῶν 6:17. ὄχ. ὀνομάτων Ac 1:15. ὄχ. τῶν ἱερέων 6:7

② a large mass of people, without ref. to status or circumstances leading to its composition, horde, mass pl. ὄχλοι as a synonym beside λαοί and ἔθνη Rv 17:15 (cp. Da 3:4).—VHunter, Thucydides and the Sociology of the Crowd: ClJ 84, ’88, 17–30, esp. 17 n. 5 (lit. on study of crowds); WCarter, CBQ 55, ’93, 56 n. 9 (lit. on sociological perspective).—B. 929. DELG. M-M. TW.

ὅμοιος, οία, οιον (ὁμός, ‘common’; Hom.+.—On the accent s. B-D-F §13; Mlt-H. 58. On ἡ ὅμοιος Rv 4:3b s. a below and B-D-F §59, 2; Mlt-H. 157) of the same nature, like, similar.

ⓐ w. dat. of pers. or thing compared (this is the rule Hom. et al.) ὅμ. αὐτῷ ἐστιν he looks like him J 9:9.—χρυσῷ ἢ ἀγρύρῳ … τὸ θεῖον εἶναι ὅμ. divinity is like gold or silver Ac 17:29. τὰ ὅμ. τούτοις things like these Gal 5:21; cp. Hm 8:5, 10; 12, 3, 1; (w. παραπλήσιος) 6, 2, 5. ὅμ. ὁράσει λίθῳ ἰάσπιδι similar in appearance to jasper Rv 4:3a; cp. 3b (here ὁμ. is an adj. of two endings, as Aesop, Fab. 63a H.=59a, 4 Ch. στήλην ὅμοιον). ὅμ. τῇ ἰδέᾳ similar in appearance Hs 9, 3, 1.—Rv 1:15; 2:18; 4:6f; 9:7, 19; 11:1; 13:2; 21:11, 18; 1 Cl 35:9 (Ps 49:21); 7:10a; Dg 2:2f; Hs 9, 19, 2; 9, 21, 2. ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπων σκεύη ὅμοια γενέσθαι τοῖς λοιποῖς to be made by human hands into vessels like the others Dg 2:4. ἄλλος ὅμ. ἐμοί any other like me Pol 3:2. ὅμ. τοῖς φαρμάκοις like the poisoners or magicians Hv 3, 9, 7 (cp. the vice list Physiogn. I 327, 15). ἡ καταστροφὴ ὁμ. καταιγίδι the downfall is like a wind-storm 1 Cl 57:4 (cp. Pr 1:27). ὅμοιοι αὐτῷ ἐσόμεθα we shall be like (God) 1J 3:2 (cp. Herm. Wr. 11, 5 ὅμ. τῷ θεῷ; Orig., C. Cels. 4, 30, 10). ὁ τούτοις τὰ ὅμ. ποιῶν the one who does such things as these Hs 6, 5, 5. τὸν ὅμοιον τρόπον τούτοις in the same way as they Jd 7. ἔσομαι ὅμοιος ὑμῖν ψεύστης I should be like you, a liar J 8:55 (ὅ. αὐτῷ every living thing has affection for ‘what is akin to itself’ Sir 13:15; 28:4 of one who has no pity for a fellow human). Freq. in parables like ὁμ. ἐστίν it is like (Aristippus in Diog. L. 2, 79 in a parable: τὶς ὅμοιός ἐστί τινι; Philosoph. Max 485, 2 M ἡ παιδεία ὁμοία ἐστὶ χρυσῷ στεφάνῳ) Mt 11:16; 13:31, 33, 44f, 47, 52; 20:1; Lk 6:47–49; 7:31f; 12:36; 13:18f, 21. οἵτινές εἰσιν ὅμοιοι χοίροις (-ρων v.l.) like swine 10:3. In brachylogy Rv 9:10. κέρατα δύο ὅμοια ἀρνίῳ 13:11.—In a special sense equally great or important, as powerful as, equal (to) (Gen 2:20; Jos., Ant. 8, 364; cp. the Lat. motto ‘nec pluribus impar’) τίς ὅμ. τῷ θηρίῳ, καὶ τίς δύναται πολεμῆσαι μετʼ αὐτοῦ; who is a match for the beast, and who is able to fight it? Rv 13:4. τίς ὁμ. τῇ πόλει τῇ μεγάλῃ; 18:18. δευτέρα (i.e. ἐντολή) ὁμοία αὐτῇ (i.e. τῇ πρώτῃ) a second, just as great as this one Mt 22:39; Mk 12:31 v.l.

ⓑ w. gen. of comparison (Theophr., HP 9, 11, 11; Hero Alex. I p. 60, 16; Aelian, HA 8, 1 τέτταρας ὁμοίους ἐκείνου κύνας; PIand VI, 97, 9 [III A.D.]; Cat. Cod. Astr. VIII/3 p. 197, 16 ὅμ. ὄφεως; Sir 13:16; Tat. 14:2.—Kühner-G. I 413, 10; B-D-F §182, 4; Rob. 530) ἔσομαι ὅμ. ὑμῶν ψεύστης J 8:55 v.l. (for ὑμῖν; cp. a above; Rydbeck, 46–49). φεῦγε ἀπὸ παντὸς πονηροῦ καὶ ἀπὸ παντὸς ὁμοίου αὐτοῦ avoid evil of any kind, and everything resembling it D 3:1 v.l.; 10:3 s. above.

ⓒ The acc. of comparison appears to be a solecism and nothing more in ὅμ. υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου one like a human being Rv 1:13; 14:14 (both have υἱῷ as v.l.), but s. RCharles, comm. ad loc.—B-D-F §182, 4; Rob. 530.

ⓓ abs. τράγοι ὅμ. goats that are alike B 7:6, 10b (Just., D. 40, 4). ὅμοιοι ἐγένοντο λευκοί they all alike became white Hs 9, 4, 5. (τὰ δένδρα) ξηρά εἰσι καὶ ὅμοια (the trees) are all alike dry = one is as dry as the other 3:2a; cp. vs. 1b. ὅμοια ἦν πάντα they (the trees) were all alike 3:1a; cp. vs. 2b and 3ab. (Of dissidents: ὅμοια μὲν [viz. ἡμῖν, to us] λαλοῦντες, ἀνόμοια δὲ φρονοῦντες Iren. 1, prol. 2 [Harv. I 4, 5].)—B. 912. Schmidt, Syn. IV 471–87, cp. ἴσος. DELG. M-M. TW.

ὅρασις, εως, ἡ (ὁράω; Aristot.+; ins, pap, LXX, En; PsSol 6:3; TestAbr A 4 p. 80, 27 [Stone p. 8]; Test12 Patr; JosAs 18 [p. 68, 13 Bat.]; GrBar 4:3; AscIs 3, 13, 31; EpArist 142; Philo).

① organ of sight, eye (mostly pl. ‘eyes’ Diod S 2, 6, 10; Plut., Mor. 88d; PGM 13, 582. But also the sg. ὅρασις Diod S 3, 37, 9; 5, 43, 1; Proclus on Pla., Cratyl. p. 7, 25 Pasqu.; Iren. 1, 18, 1 [Harv. I, 171, 1]; Orig., C. Cels. 1, 48, 31; Hippol., Ref. 6, 15, 1), and hence sight, appearance, face (CB I/2, 653 no. 564 εἰς ὅρασιν καὶ εἰς ὅλον τὸ σῶμα; PGM 4, 308; 5, 147; Sir 11:2; 25:17; 3 Macc 5:33) in imagery, of mental and spiritual perception ἀχλύος γέμοντες ἐν τῇ ὁράσει with eyes full of mistiness 2 Cl 1:6.

② that which is seen, appearance, sight

ⓐ appearance (Philo Mech. 51, 10; 62, 23; Ezk 1:5; 1 Km 16:12; Hippol., Ref. 4, 20, 1) ὅμοιος ὁράσει λίθῳ ἰάσπιδι like jasper in appearance Rv 4:3a; cp. vs. 3b.

ⓑ spectacle ἔσονται εἰς ὅρ. πάσῃ σαρκί they will be a spectacle for all flesh (Is 66:24) 2 Cl 7:6; 17:5.

③ vision in a transcendent mode (in this case the distinction made betw. ὅραμα 1 and 2 cannot be carried through w. certainty, so that the focus in 1 will certainly predominate.—Critodemus, a Hellenistic astrologer, wrote a book Ὅρασις in vision form [Vett. Val. 150, 11; 329, 18f]; Herm. Wr. 1, 30 ἀληθινὴ ὅρ.; Tob 12:19; Zech 10:2; Pel.-Leg. 18, 20) vision (cp. Da 7:1 Theod.; Iren. 4, 28, 3 [Harv. II 296, 16]) ἰδεῖν τι ἐν τῇ ὁρ. Rv 9:17. ὅρασιν ἰδεῖν or ὁρᾶν Ac 2:17 (Jo 3:1); Hv 2, 4, 2. Of the visions of Hermas Hv 2, 1, 1; 3, 10, 3ff; 3, 11, 2; 4; 3, 12, 1; 3, 13, 1; 4, 1, 1. Titles Hv 2; 3; 4.—DELG s.v. ὁράω. M-M. TW.

ῥαβδοῦχος, ου, ὁ (ῥάβδος, ἔχω; Aristoph., Thu. et al.; ins, pap) orig. ‘staff-bearer’, then of the Roman ‘lictor’ (Polyb. et al.; Diod S 5, 40, 1; Plut., Rom. 34 [26, 3], Mor. 280a διὰ τί λικτώρεις τοὺς ῥαβδούχους ὀνομάζουσι; Herodian 7, 8, 5.—Joseph. does not have the word, but ῥάβδοι in Bell. 2, 365f prob. refers to the fasces or bundles of sticks carried by the lictors), roughly equiv. to constable, police officer. The στρατηγοί (q.v.) of Philippi had two lictors in attendance on them (JMarquardt, Röm. Staatsverwaltung 1² 1881 p. 175, 7; ASherwin-White, Roman Society and Roman Law in the NT ’63, 74f) Ac 16:35, 38 (Mason 82f [literary]; New Docs 2, 18f).—M-M. TW.