for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity

the worlds, universe

period of time, age

royal power, kingship, dominion, rule

1. not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom

2. of the royal power of Jesus as the triumphant Messiah

3. of the royal power and dignity conferred on Christians in the Messiah's kingdom

a kingdom, the territory subject to the rule of a king

used in the N.T. to refer to the reign of the Messiah

but, moreover, and, etc.

into, unto, to, towards, for, among

rectitude, uprightness

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

a throne seat

1. a chair of state having a footstool

2. assigned in the NT to kings, hence, kingly power or royalty

   1. metaph. to God, the governor of the world

   2. to the Messiah, Christ, the partner and assistant in the divine administration

      1. hence divine power belonging to Christ

   3. to judges i.e. tribunal or bench

   4. to elders

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

to the advantage of

at, near, by

to, towards, with, with regard to

a staff, a walking stick, a twig, rod, branch

a rod with which one is beaten

a staff

1. as used on a journey, or to lean upon, or by shepherds

2. when applied to kings

   1. with a rod of iron, indicates the severest, most rigorous rule

   2. a royal sceptre

thy, thee

you

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