Subject, Subjection (Verb, Adjective, Noun)
Subject, Subjection (Verb, Adjective, Noun)
primarily a military term, “to rank under” (hupo, “under,” tasso, “to arrange”), denotes (a) “to put in subjection, to subject,” Rom 8:20 (twice); in the following, the RV, has to subject for AV, “to put under,” 1Co 15:27 (thrice), 1Co 15:28 (3rd clause); Eph 1:22; Heb 2:8 (4th clause); in 1Co 15:28 (1st clause), for AV “be subdued;” in Phi 3:21, for AV, “subdue;” in Heb 2:5, AV, “hath … put in subjection;” (b) in the Middle or Passive Voice, to subject oneself, to obey, be subject to, Luk 2:51; Luk 10:17, Luk 10:20; Rom 8:7; Rom 10:3, RV, “did (not) subject themselves” [AV, “have (not) submitted themselves”]; Rom 13:1, Rom 13:5; 1Co 14:34, RV, “be in subjection” (AV, “be under obedience”); 1Co 15:28 (2nd clause); 1Co 16:16 RV, “be in subjection” (AV, “submit, etc.”); so Col 3:18; Eph 5:21, RV, “subjecting yourselves” (AV, “submitting, etc.”); Eph 5:22, RV in italics, according to the best texts; Eph 5:24, “is subject;” Tit 2:5, Tit 2:9, RV, “be in subjection” (AV, “be obedient”); Tit 3:1, RV, “to be in subjection;” (AV, “to be subject”); Heb 12:9, “be in subjection;” Jam 4:7, RV, “be subject” (AV, “submit yourselves”); so 1Pe 2:13; 1Pe 2:18, RV, “be in subjection;” so 1Pe 3:1, AV and RV; 1Pe 3:5, similarly; 1Pe 3:22, “being made subject;” 1Pe 5:5, RV, “be subject” (AV, “submit yourselves”); in some texts in the 2nd part, as AV. See OBEDIENT, SUBMIT.
Note: For doulagogeo, 1Co 9:27, AV, “bring into subjection,” see BONDAGE, B, No. 3. For anupotaktos, “not subject,” Heb 2:8, see DISOBEDIENT, B, Note.
“held in, bound by,” in Heb 2:15, “subject to:” see DANGER, B, No. 1.
Note: For “subject to like passions,” Jam 5:17, AV, see PASSION.
“subjection,” occurs in 2Co 9:13; Gal 2:5; 1Ti 2:11; 1Ti 3:4.