exactness, exactest care: in accordance with the strictness of the Mosaic law

to nurse up, nourish up

1. of young children and animals nourished to promote growth

to bring up

1. with the predominant idea of forming the mind

with reference to sex

1. of a male

2. of a husband

3. of a betrothed or future husband

with reference to age, and to distinguish an adult man from a boy

any male

used generically of a group of both men and women

Gamaliel = "my recompenser is God"

1. a Pharisee and celebrated doctor of the law, who gave prudent worldly advice in the Sanhedrin respecting the treatment of the followers of Jesus of Nazareth. Acts 5:34 ff. (A.D.29.) We learn from Acts 22:3 that he was the preceptor of Paul. He is generally identified with the very celebrated Jewish doctor Gamaliel, grandson of Hillel, and who is referred to as authority in the Jewish Mishna.

of men who fathered children

1. to be born

2. to be begotten

   1. of women giving birth to children

metaph.

1. to engender, cause to arise, excite

2. in a Jewish sense, of one who brings others over to his way of life, to convert someone

3. of God making Christ his son

4. of God making men his sons through faith in Christ's work

but, moreover, and, etc.

I, me, my

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

in, by, with etc.

"you are" (second person plural of 'to be')

one burning with zeal, a zealot

used of God as jealous of any rival and sternly vindicating his control

most eagerly desirous of, zealous for, a thing

1. to acquire a thing, (zealous of)

2. to defend and uphold a thing, vehemently contending for a thing

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

Jewish, belonging to the Jewish nation

Jewish as respects to birth, origin, religion

according as

1. just as, even as

2. in proportion as, in the degree that

since, seeing that, agreeably to the fact that

when, after that

down from, through out

according to, toward, along

Cilicia = "the land of Celix"

1. a maritime province in the southeast of Asia Minor, boarding on Pamphylia in the west, Lycaonia and Cappadocia in the north and Syria in the east. Its capital, Tarsus, was the birth place of Paul

truly, certainly, surely, indeed

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

this, these, etc.

to train children

1. to be instructed or taught or learn

2. to cause one to learn

to chastise

1. to chastise or castigate with words, to correct

   1. of those who are moulding the character of others by reproof and admonition

2. of God

   1. to chasten by the affliction of evils and calamities

3. to chastise with blows, to scourge

   1. of a father punishing his son

   2. of a judge ordering one to be scourged

from, of at, by, besides, near

individually

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

collectively

1. some of all types

descending from father to son or from ancestors to their posterity as it were by right of inheritance

received from the fathers

a city

1. one's native city, the city in which one lives

2. the heavenly Jerusalem

   1. the abode of the blessed in heaven

   2. of the visible capital in the heavenly kingdom, to come down to earth after the renovation of the world by fire

3. the inhabitants of a city

a foot, both of men or beast

1. often in the orient, one put his foot on vanquished

2. of disciples listening to their teacher's instruction are said to be at his feet

this (very) day)

what has happened today

you

Tarsus = "a flat basket"

1. a major city in Cilicia and the birthplace and early home of Paul. Acts 9:11; 21:39; 22:3. Even in the flourishing period of Greek history it was an important city. In the Roman civil wars, it sided with Caesar and on the occasion of a visit from him its name changed to Juliopolis. Augustus made it a free city. Its was renowned as a place of education under the early Roman emperors. Strabo compares it in this respect to Athens and Alexandria. Tarsus also was a place of much commerce. It was situated in a wild and fertile plain on the banks of the Cydnus. No ruins of any importance remain.

this, that, the same, see 3778

you

to begin below, to make a beginning

1. to begin

to come forth, hence to be there, be ready, be at hand

to be