Quit
Quit
QUIT.The adj. quit (from Lat. quietus) means free from obligation, as Exo 21:19 Then shall he that smote him be quit. The vb. to quit (from Lat. quietare) is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] reflexivelyquit oneself, i.e. discharge ones obligations, as 1Co 16:13 Quit you like men.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Quit
kwit: Same derivation as quiet, so that to be quit (Exo 21:19, Exo 21:28; Jos 2:20 the King James Version) is to be relieved of responsibility, , nakah, , nak, guiltless (so the Revised Version (British and American) Jos 2:20). Hence, to quit one’s self means to be freed by discharging a duty. The phrase in English Versions of the Bible, however, is a gloss for in 1Sa 4:9 it is used for , hayah, to be, while in 1Co 16:13 , andrzomai, means to behave like a man.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Quit
“to free from,” is used in the Passive Voice in Luk 12:58, RV, “to be quit” (AV, “to be delivered”). See DELIVER, A, No. 6.
signifies “to make a man of” (aner, “a man”); in the Middle Voice, in 1Co 16:13, “to play the man,” “quit you like men.”