to take with the hand

1. to take hold of, take up

to take up, receive

1. used of a place receiving one

2. to receive or grant access to, a visitor, not to refuse intercourse or friendship

   1. to receive hospitality

   2. to receive into one's family to bring up or educate

3. of the thing offered in speaking, teaching, instructing

   1. to receive favourably, give ear to, embrace, make one's own, approve, not to reject

4. to receive. i.e. to take upon one's self, sustain, bear, endure

to receive, get

1. to learn

righteous, observing divine laws

1. in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God

   1. of those who seem to themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves in their virtues, whether real or imagined

   2. innocent, faultless, guiltless

   3. used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life

      1. only Christ truly

   4. approved of or acceptable of God

2. in a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them

into, unto, to, towards, for, among

and, also, even, indeed, but

to take

1. to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it

   1. to take up a thing to be carried

   2. to take upon one's self

2. to take in order to carry away

   1. without the notion of violence, i,e to remove, take away

3. to take what is one's own, to take to one's self, to make one's own

   1. to claim, procure, for one's self

      1. to associate with one's self as companion, attendant

   2. of that which when taken is not let go, to seize, to lay hold of, apprehend

   3. to take by craft (our catch, used of hunters, fisherman, etc.), to circumvent one by fraud

   4. to take to one's self, lay hold upon, take possession of, i.e. to appropriate to one's self

   5. catch at, reach after, strive to obtain

   6. to take a thing due, to collect, gather (tribute)

4. to take

   1. to admit, receive

   2. to receive what is offered

   3. not to refuse or reject

   4. to receive a person, give him access to one's self,

      1. to regard any one's power, rank, external circumstances, and on that account to do some injustice or neglect something

5. to take, to choose, select

6. to take beginning, to prove anything, to make a trial of, to experience

to receive (what is given), to gain, get, obtain, to get back

dues paid for work

1. wages, hire

reward: used of the fruit naturally resulting from toils and endeavours

1. in both senses, rewards and punishments

2. of the rewards which God bestows, or will bestow, upon good deeds and endeavours

3. of punishments

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

name: univ. of proper names

the name is used for everything which the name covers, everything the thought or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by mentioning, hearing, remembering, the name, i.e. for one's rank, authority, interests, pleasure, command, excellences, deeds etc.

persons reckoned up by name

the cause or reason named: on this account, because he suffers as a Christian, for this reason

in Greek writings, an interpreter of oracles or of other hidden things

one who, moved by the Spirit of God and hence his organ or spokesman, solemnly declares to men what he has received by inspiration, especially concerning future events, and in particular such as relate to the cause and kingdom of God and to human salvation

1. the OT prophets, having foretold the kingdom, deeds and death, of Jesus the Messiah.

2. of John the Baptist, the herald of Jesus the Messiah

3. of the illustrious prophet, the Jews expected before the advent of the Messiah

4. the Messiah

5. of men filled with the Spirit of God, who by God's authority and command in words of weight pleads the cause of God and urges salvation of men

6. of prophets that appeared in the apostolic age among Christians

   1. they are associated with the apostles

   2. they discerned and did what is best for the Christian cause, foretelling certain future events. (Acts 11:27)

   3. in the religious assemblies of the Christians, they were moved by the Holy Spirit to speak, having power to instruct, comfort, encourage, rebuke, convict, and stimulate, their hearers

a poet (because poets were believed to sing under divine inspiration)

1. of Epimenides (Tit. 1:12)