for

till, until

John = "Jehovah is a gracious giver"

1. John the Baptist was the son of Zacharias and Elisabeth, the forerunner of Christ. By order of Herod Antipas he was cast into prison and afterwards beheaded.

2. John the apostle, the writer of the Fourth Gospel, son of Zebedee and Salome, brother of James the elder. He is that disciple who (without mention by name) is spoken of in the Fourth Gospel as especially dear to Jesus and according to the traditional opinion is the author of the book of Revelation.

3. John surnamed Mark, the companion of Barnabas and Paul. #Acts 12:12

4. John a certain man, a member of the Sanhedrin. # Ac 4:6

and, also, even, indeed, but

anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command

1. of any law whatsoever

   1. a law or rule producing a state approved of God

      1. by the observance of which is approved of God

   2. a precept or injunction

   3. the rule of action prescribed by reason

2. of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents

3. the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, esp. the precept concerning love

4. the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT

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

individually

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

collectively

1. some of all types

to prophesy, to be a prophet, speak forth by divine inspirations, to predict

1. to prophesy

2. with the idea of foretelling future events pertaining esp. to the kingdom of God

3. to utter forth, declare, a thing which can only be known by divine revelation

4. to break forth under sudden impulse in lofty discourse or praise of the divine counsels

   1. under like prompting, to teach, refute, reprove, admonish, comfort others

5. to act as a prophet, discharge the prophetic office

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)