to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf

to hear

1. to attend to, consider what is or has been said

2. to understand, perceive the sense of what is said

to hear something

1. to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence

2. to get by hearing learn

3. a thing comes to one's ears, to find out, learn

4. to give ear to a teaching or a teacher

5. to comprehend, to understand

but

1. nevertheless, notwithstanding

2. an objection

3. an exception

4. a restriction

5. nay, rather, yea, moreover

6. forms a transition to the cardinal matter

Asia = "orient"

1. Asia proper or proconsular Asia embracing Mysia, Lydia, Phrygia, and Caria, corresponding closely to Turkey today

to become, i.e. to come into existence, begin to be, receive being

to become, i.e. to come to pass, happen

1. of events

to arise, appear in history, come upon the stage

1. of men appearing in public

to be made, finished

1. of miracles, to be performed, wrought

to become, be made

through

1. of place

   1. with

   2. in

2. of time

   1. throughout

   2. during

3. of means

   1. by

   2. by the means of

through

1. the ground or reason by which something is or is not done

   1. by reason of

   2. on account of

   3. because of for this reason

   4. therefore

   5. on this account

to be, to exist, to happen, to be present

are, be, were, etc.

Ephesus = "permitted"

1. a maritime city of Asia Minor, capital of Ionia and under the Romans, of proconsular Asia, situated on the Icarian Sea between Smyrna and Miletus

a god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities

the Godhead, trinity

1. God the Father, the first person in the trinity

2. Christ, the second person of the trinity

3. Holy Spirit, the third person in the trinity

spoken of the only and true God

1. refers to the things of God

2. his counsels, interests, things due to him

whatever can in any respect be likened unto God, or resemble him in any way

1. God's representative or viceregent

   1. of magistrates and judges

to be a spectator, look at, behold

1. to view attentively, take a view of, survey

   1. to view mentally, consider

to see

1. to perceive with the eyes, to enjoy the presence of one

2. to discern, descry

3. to ascertain, find out by seeing

sufficient

1. many enough, enough

2. sufficient in ability, i.e. meet, fit

and, also, even, indeed, but

to say, to speak

1. affirm over, maintain

2. to teach

3. to exhort, advise, to command, direct

4. to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say

5. to call by name, to call, name

6. to speak out, speak of, mention

to transpose, transfer, remove from one place to another

1. of change of situation or place

2. to remove from the office of a steward

3. to depart from life, to die

only, alone, but

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

that, because, since

no, not; in direct questions expecting an affirmative answer

this, these, etc.

a crowd

1. a casual collection of people

   1. a multitude of men who have flocked together in some place

   2. a throng

2. a multitude

   1. the common people, as opposed to the rulers and leading men

   2. with contempt: the ignorant multitude, the populace

3. a multitude

   1. the multitudes, seems to denote troops of people gathered together without order

individually

1. each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything

collectively

1. some of all types

Paul or Paulus = "small or little"

1. Paul was the most famous of the apostles and wrote a good part of the NT, the 14 Pauline epistles

2. Paulus was a deputy or pro-consul of Cyprus and is said to be a prudent man, in the management of affairs, as a governor

persuade

1. to persuade, i.e. to induce one by words to believe

2. to make friends of, to win one's favour, gain one's good will, or to seek to win one, strive to please one

3. to tranquillise

4. to persuade unto i.e. move or induce one to persuasion to do something

be persuaded

1. to be persuaded, to suffer one's self to be persuaded; to be induced to believe: to have faith: in a thing

   1. to believe

   2. to be persuaded of a thing concerning a person

2. to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with

to trust, have confidence, be confident

near, hard by

well nigh, nearly, almost

by the help or agency of any one, by means of any one

fig. applied to God symbolising his might, activity, power

1. in creating the universe

2. in upholding and preserving (God is present protecting and aiding one)

3. in punishing

4. in determining and controlling the destinies of men