Uncertain, Uncertainly, Uncertainty
Uncertain, Uncertainly, Uncertainty
denotes (a) “unseen;” with the article, translated “which appear not” (a, negative, delos, “evident”), Luk 11:44; (b) “uncertain, indistinct,” 1Co 14:8. In the Sept., Psa 51:6.
“uncertainly” (akin to A), occurs in 1Co 9:26.
“uncertainty” (akin to A and B), occurs in 1Ti 6:17, “(the) uncertainty (of riches),” RV (the AV translates it as an adjective, “uncertain”), i.e., riches the special character of which is their “uncertainty;” the Greek phrase is a rhetorical way of stressing the noun “riches;” when a genitive (here “of riches”) precedes the governing noun (here “uncertainty”) the genitive receives emphasis.