40. FOUNDED. STEADFAST
40. FOUNDED. STEADFAST
The words () and have similar meanings. They both occur in Col 1:23; “grounded () and settled (),” or “founded and firm.” (from , ‘a foundation’) suggests the idea of being ‘secured to the foundation:’ thus in Mat 7:25; Luk 6:48, it is “founded on a rock.” In Heb 1:10 the Lord “founded the earth;” Eph 3:17, “rooted and founded in love;” and 1Pe 5:10, “make you perfect, strengthen, ‘found’ you.”
(from ‘a seat or sitting’) has more the thought of being ‘stable, firm, within.’ Besides Col 1:23 it occurs only in 1Co 7:37, “he that stands firm in his heart;” and in 1Co 15:58, “my beloved brethren, be ye firm.”