Threaten
Threaten
is used of Christ, negatively, in 1Pe 2:23; in the Middle Voice, Act 4:17, where some texts have the noun apeile in addition, hence the AV, “let us straitly threaten,” lit., “let us threaten … with threatening” (see THREATENING). (See also STRAITLY.)
“to threaten further” (pros, and No. 1), occurs in the Middle Voice in Act 4:21.