Bid
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ISBE 19158 verse references
ISBE 1915
From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915). Where it reports or adopts critical theories, those are the views of its writers or the scholars they cite; Gospel Companion holds the historic Christian view of Scripture.
Variously signifying, according to six Hebrew and as many Greek originals:
(1) "to command" (Nu 14:10; Mt 1:24 the King James Version, prostasso);
(2) "to prescribe" or "order" (Joh 2:2);
(3) "to consecrate," and so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) (Ze 1:7; compare 1Sa 16:5);
(4) eipon, "to say" or "tell" (Mt 16:12);
(5) "to call" i.e. "invite" (kaleo), conspicuously used in this sense in Christ's parables of the Marriage Feast (Mt 22:3- 9) and of the Great Supper (Lu 14:7-24);
(6) "to take leave of," appotasso (Lu 9:61).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain
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