a delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders

1. specifically applied to the twelve apostles of Christ

2. in a broader sense applied to other eminent Christian teachers

   1. of Barnabas

   2. of Timothy and Silvanus

Barnabas = "son of rest"

1. the surname of Joses or Joseph, a Levite, a native of Cyprus He was a distinguished Christian teacher and companion and colleague of Paul.

kindred

1. offspring

2. family

3. stock, tribe, nation

   1. i.e. nationality or descent from a particular people

4. the aggregate of many individuals of the same nature, kind, sort

but, moreover, and, etc.

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

to put a name upon, to surname

1. to permit one's self to be surnamed

to be named after someone

to call something to one

1. to cry out upon or against one

2. to charge something to one as a crime or reproach

3. to summon one on any charge, prosecute one for a crime

4. to blame one for, accuse one of

to invoke

1. to call upon for one's self, in one's behalf

   1. any one as a helper

   2. as my witness

   3. as my judge

   4. to appeal unto

to call upon by pronouncing the name of Jehovah

1. an expression finding its explanation in the fact that prayers addressed to God ordinarily began with an invocation of the divine name

"he/she/it is" (third person singular of 'to be'). Used with 3739 in the following verses: Mar 3:17; 7:11, 34; 12:42; 15:15; Eph 6:17; Col 1:24; Hbr 7:2; Rev 21:8, 17. These are listed under number 3603.

Joses = "exalted"

1. one of the ancestors of Christ, Lk 3:29

2. Joses, the brother of Jesus, Mk 6:3

3. Joses, the son of Mary, the sister of the mother of Jesus, Mt. 27:56

4. Joses, a Levite, Acts 4:36

a Cyprian or Cypriote, i.e. a native of Cyprus

one of the tribe of Levi

in a narrower sense those were called Levites who, not being of the family of Aaron, for whom alone the priesthood was reserved, served as assistants to the priests. It was their duty to keep the sacred utensils and the temple clean, to provide the sacred loaves, to open and shut the gates of the temple, to sing the sacred hymns in the temple, and to do many other things.

to translate into the language of one with whom I wish to communicate, to interpret

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

who, which, what, that

a calling near, summons, (esp. for help)

importation, supplication, entreaty

exhortation, admonition, encouragement

consolation, comfort, solace; that which affords comfort or refreshment

1. thus of the Messianic salvation (so the Rabbis call the Messiah the consoler, the comforter)

persuasive discourse, stirring address

1. instructive, admonitory, conciliatory, powerful hortatory discourse

a son

1. rarely used for the young of animals

2. generally used of the offspring of men

3. in a restricted sense, the male offspring (one born by a father and of a mother)

4. in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one,

   1. the children of Israel

   2. sons of Abraham

5. used to describe one who depends on another or is his follower

   1. a pupil

son of man

1. term describing man, carrying the connotation of weakness and mortality

2. son of man, symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom in Daniel 7:13 and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the Babylonian, the Median and the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman) typified by the four beasts. In the book of Enoch (2nd Century) it is used of Christ.

3. used by Christ himself, doubtless in order that he might intimate his Messiahship and also that he might designate himself as the head of the human family, the man, the one who both furnished the pattern of the perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind. Christ seems to have preferred this to the other Messianic titles, because by its lowliness it was least suited to foster the expectation of an earthly Messiah in royal splendour.

son of God

1. used to describe Adam (Lk. 3:38)

2. used to describe those who are born again (Lk. 20:36) and of angels and of Jesus Christ

3. of those whom God esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others

   1. in the OT used of the Jews

   2. in the NT of Christians

   3. those whose character God, as a loving father, shapes by chastisements (Heb. 12:5-8)

4. those who revere God as their father, the pious worshippers of God, those who in character and life resemble God, those who are governed by the Spirit of God, repose the same calm and joyful trust in God which children do in their parents (Rom. 8:14, Gal. 3:26), and hereafter in the blessedness and glory of the life eternal will openly wear this dignity of the sons of God. Term used preeminently of Jesus Christ, as enjoying the supreme love of God, united to him in affectionate intimacy, privy to his saving councils, obedient to the Father's will in all his acts

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