primarily signifies “to be sufficient, to be possessed of sufficient strength, to be strong, to be enough for a thing;” hence, “to defend, ward off;” in the Middle Voice, “to be satisfied, contented with,” Luk 3:14<\/span>, with wages; 1Ti 6:8<\/span>, with food and raiment; Heb 13:5<\/span>, with “such things as ye have;” negatively of Diotrephes, in 3Jo 1:10<\/span>, “not content therewith.” See ENOUGH, SUFFICE, SUFFICIENT. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n in 1Co 7:12-13<\/span>, RV, signifies “to be content:” see CONSENT, No. 6. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n as found in the papyri writings, means “sufficient in oneself” (autos, “self,” arkeo, “see” A), “self-sufficient, adequate, needing no assistance;” hence, “content,” Phi 4:11<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “sufficient,” used with poieo, “to do,” in Mar 15:15<\/span>, is translated “to content (the multitude),” i.e., to do sufficient to satisfy them. See ABLE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “contentment, satisfaction with what one has,” is found in 1Ti 6:6<\/span>. For its other meaning “sufficiency,” in 2Co 9:8<\/span>, see SUFFICIENCY. <\/p>\n Content (to be), Contentment primarily signifies “to be sufficient, to be possessed of sufficient strength, to be strong, to be enough for a thing;” hence, “to defend, ward off;” in the Middle Voice, “to be satisfied, contented with,” Luk 3:14, with wages; 1Ti 6:8, with food and raiment; Heb 13:5, with “such things as ye … Continue reading “Content (to be), Contentment”<\/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-38443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38443","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=38443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38443"}],"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":"