“expense, cost” (from dapto, “to tear;” from a root dap, meaning “to divide”), is found in Luk 14:28<\/span>, in the Lord’s illustration of counting the “cost” of becoming His disciple. Cp. dapanao, “to spend,” and its compounds, under CHARGE, SPEND. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “costliness” (from timios, “valued at great price, precious;” see No. 3, below), is connected with time, “honor, price,” and used in Rev 18:19<\/span>, in reference to Babylon. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n akin to A, No. 2, is translated “costly” in 1Co 3:12<\/span>, of “costly” stones, in a metaphorical sense (AV, “precious”). Cp. Rev 17:4<\/span>; Rev 18:12<\/span>, Rev 18:16<\/span>; Rev 21:19<\/span>. See DEAR, HONORABLE, PRECIOUS, REPUTATION. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n primarily, “the very end or limit” (from polus, “much,” telos, “revenue”), with reference to price, of highest “cost,” very expensive, is said of spikenard, Mar 14:3<\/span>; raiment, 1Ti 2:9<\/span>; metaphorically, of a meek and quiet spirit, 1Pe 3:4<\/span>, “of great price;” cp. No. 1 and A, No. 2, above. See PRECIOUS, PRICE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n lit., “of great value” (see A, No. 2 and B, No. 1), is used of a pearl, Mat 13:46<\/span>; of spikenard, Joh 12:3<\/span> (RV, “very precious,” AV “very costly”). See PRICE. The comparative polutimo(v.l.io)teros, “much more precious,” is used in 1Pe 1:7<\/span>. <\/p>\n Cost, Costliness, Costly “expense, cost” (from dapto, “to tear;” from a root dap, meaning “to divide”), is found in Luk 14:28, in the Lord’s illustration of counting the “cost” of becoming His disciple. Cp. dapanao, “to spend,” and its compounds, under CHARGE, SPEND. “costliness” (from timios, “valued at great price, precious;” see No. 3, below), … Continue reading “Cost, Costliness, Costly”<\/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-39201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39201","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=39201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39201"}],"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":"