a-bout: The use of this word as a preposition, in the sense of around, is confined to the Old Testament. In the New Testament, generally an adverb, for Greek , hos or hose. The Revised Version (British and American) adopts it in several idiomatic translations of , mello, referring to what is about to be, i.e. on the point of occurring, or immediately impending, amending the King James Version, in Act 5:35; Act 27:2; Rev 12:4, etc.<\/p>\n
* Besides prepositions, the following signify “about”:– <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“round about, or all round” (from kuklos, “a circle, cycle”), is found in the Apocalypse only, Rev 4:3-4<\/span>, Rev 4:8<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n the dative case of kuklos (see above), means “round about,” lit., “in a circle.” It is used in the same way as No. 1, Mar 3:34<\/span>; Mar 6:6<\/span>, Mar 6:36<\/span>; Luk 9:12<\/span>; Rom 15:19<\/span>; Rev 4:6<\/span>; Rev 5:11<\/span>; Rev 7:11<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n an indefinite particle, signifying “somewhere, somewhere about, nearly,” has a limiting force, with numerals, e.g., Rom 4:19<\/span>. In referring to a passage in the OT, it is translated “somewhere,” in the RV of Heb 2:6<\/span>; Heb 4:4<\/span> (AV, “in a certain place”); by not mentioning the actual passage referred to, the writer acknowledged the familiar acquaintance of his readers with the OT. See PLACE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n usually means “as.” Used with numerals it signifies “about,” e.g., Mar 5:13<\/span>; Mar 8:9<\/span> Joh 1:40<\/span>; Joh 6:19<\/span>; Joh 11:18<\/span>; Act 1:15<\/span>; Rev 8:1<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “as if,” before numerals, denotes “about, nearly, something like,” with perhaps an indication of greater indefiniteness than No. 4, e.g., Mat 14:21<\/span>; Luk 3:23<\/span>; Luk 9:14<\/span>, Luk 9:28<\/span>; Act 2:41<\/span>; with a measure of space, Luk 22:41<\/span>, “about a stone’s cast.” See LIKE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n signifies (a) “of intention, to be about to do something,” e.g., Act 3:3<\/span>; Act 18:14<\/span>; Act 20:3<\/span>; Heb 8:5<\/span>; (b) “of certainty, compulsion or necessity, to be certain to act,” e.g., Joh 6:71<\/span>. See ALMOST, BEGIN, COME, INTEND, MEAN, MIND, POINT OF (at), READY, SHALL, SHOULD, TARRY. <\/p>\n Note: Zeteo, “to seek,” is translated “were about” in the AV of Act 27:30<\/span>; RV, correctly, “were seeking to.” <\/p>\n About a-bout: The use of this word as a preposition, in the sense of around, is confined to the Old Testament. In the New Testament, generally an adverb, for Greek , hos or hose. The Revised Version (British and American) adopts it in several idiomatic translations of , mello, referring to what is about to … Continue reading “About”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"