to employ a courier, dispatch a mounted messenger, press into public service, compel to go

land

1. the field, the country

2. a piece of land, bit of tillage

3. the farms, country seats, neighbouring hamlets

to raise up, elevate, lift up

1. to raise from the ground, take up: stones

2. to raise upwards, elevate, lift up: the hand

3. to draw up: a fish

to take upon one's self and carry what has been raised up, to bear

to bear away what has been raised, carry off

1. to move from its place

2. to take off or away what is attached to anything

3. to remove

4. to carry off, carry away with one

5. to appropriate what is taken

6. to take away from another what is his or what is committed to him, to take by force

7. to take and apply to any use

8. to take from among the living, either by a natural death, or by violence

9. cause to cease

Alexander = "man defender"

1. son of Simon of Cyrene who carried Jesus's cross, Mk 15:21

2. a certain man of the kindred of the high priest, Acts 4:6

3. a certain Jew, Acts 19:33

4. a certain coppersmith who opposed the Apostle Paul, 1 Ti. 1:20

of separation

1. of local separation, after verbs of motion from a place i.e. of departing, of fleeing,...

2. of separation of a part from the whole

   1. where of a whole some part is taken

3. of any kind of separation of one thing from another by which the union or fellowship of the two is destroyed

4. of a state of separation, that is of distance

   1. physical, of distance of place

   2. temporal, of distance of time

of origin

1. of the place whence anything is, comes, befalls, is taken

2. of origin of a cause

himself, herself, themselves, itself

he, she, it

the same

to come

1. of persons

   1. to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving and of those returning

   2. to appear, make one's appearance, come before the public

metaph.

1. to come into being, arise, come forth, show itself, find place or influence

2. be established, become known, to come (fall) into or unto

to go, to follow one

that, in order that, so that

and, also, even, indeed, but

a native of Cyrene

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

pass by

1. to lead past, lead by

2. to lead aside, mislead

   1. to lead away

3. to lead to

   1. to lead forth, bring forward

to pass by, go past

1. to depart, go away

metaph. disappear

generator or male ancestor

1. either the nearest ancestor: father of the corporeal nature, natural fathers, both parents

2. a more remote ancestor, the founder of a family or tribe, progenitor of a people, forefather: so Abraham is called, Jacob and David

   1. fathers i.e. ancestors, forefathers, founders of a nation

3. one advanced in years, a senior

metaph.

1. the originator and transmitter of anything

   1. the authors of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit as himself

   2. one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds

2. one who stands in a father's place and looks after another in a paternal way

3. a title of honour

   1. teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training they have received

   2. the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was by virtue of the wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests of others

God is called the Father

1. of the stars, the heavenly luminaries, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler

2. of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector

   1. of spiritual beings and of all men

3. of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as a stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father

4. the Father of Jesus Christ, as one whom God has united to himself in the closest bond of love and intimacy, made acquainted with his purposes, appointed to explain and carry out among men the plan of salvation, and made to share also in his own divine nature

   1. by Jesus Christ himself

   2. by the apostles

Rufus = "red"

1. name of a certain Christian

Peter = "a rock or stone"

1. Peter was one of the apostles

2. Simon called Zelotes or the Kanaites

3. Simon, father of Judas who betrayed Jesus.

4. Simon Magus, the Samaritan wizard

5. Simon the tanner, Ac. 10

6. Simon the Pharisee, Luke 7:40-44

7. Simon of Cyrene who carried the cross of Christ

8. Simon the cousin of Jesus, the son of Cleophas

9. Simon the leper, so called to distinguish him from others of the same name

a cross

1. a well known instrument of most cruel and ignominious punishment, borrowed by the Greeks and Romans from the Phoenicians; to it were affixed among the Romans, down to the time of Constantine the Great, the guiltiest criminals, particularly the basest slaves, robbers, the authors and abetters of insurrections, and occasionally in the provinces, at the arbitrary pleasure of the governors, upright and peaceable men also, and even Roman citizens themselves

2. the crucifixion which Christ underwent

an upright "stake", esp. a pointed one, used as such in fences or palisades

a certain, a certain one

some, some time, a while