kon-tan. See CONTINENCY.<\/p>\n
signifies (a), lit., “to give space, make room” (chora, “a place”); hence, transitively, “to have space or room for a thing, to contain,” said of the waterpots as “containing” a certain quantity, Joh 2:6<\/span>; of a space large enough to hold a number of people, Mar 2:2<\/span>; of the world as not possible of “containing” certain books, Joh 21:25<\/span>; (b) “to go,” Mat 15:17<\/span>; “to have place,” Joh 8:37<\/span>; “to come,” 2Pe 3:9<\/span>; (c) metaphorically, “of receiving with the mind,” Mat 19:11-12<\/span>; or “into the heart,” 2Co 7:2<\/span>. See COME (No. 24), GO, PLACE, RECEIVE, ROOM. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n lit., “to have round” (peri, “around,” echo, “to have”), means “to encompass, enclose, contain,” as a writing contains details, 1Pe 2:6<\/span>. Some mss. have it in Act 23:25<\/span>, lit., “having this form” (the most authentic have echo, “to have”). For the secondary meaning, “amazed” (AV, “astonished”), Luk 5:9<\/span> (lit., “amazement encompassed,” i.e., seized, him). <\/p>\n Notes: (1) The verb allegoreo in Gal 4:24<\/span>, RV, is translated “contain an allegory” (AV, “are an allegory”), i.e., they apply the facts of the narrative to illustrate principles. (2) In Eph 2:15<\/span> “the law of commandments contained in ordinances” is, lit., “the law of commandments in ordinances.” (3) In Rom 2:14<\/span>, the RV, translating literally, has “the things of the Law;” the AV inserts the words “contained in.” (4) In 1Co 7:9<\/span>, for the AV, “if they cannot contain,” see CONTINENCY. <\/p>\n Contain kon-tan. See CONTINENCY. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Contain signifies (a), lit., “to give space, make room” (chora, “a place”); hence, transitively, “to have space or room for a thing, to contain,” said of the waterpots as “containing” a certain quantity, Joh 2:6; of a space large enough to hold a number of people, … Continue reading “Contain”<\/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-38420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420","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=38420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38420"}],"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":"