from time, “honor, price,” signifies (a), primarily, “accounted as of great price, precious, costly,” 1Co 3:12<\/span>; Rev 17:4<\/span>; Rev 18:12<\/span>, Rev 18:16<\/span>; Rev 21:19<\/span>, and in the superlative degree, Rev 18:12<\/span>; Rev 21:11<\/span>; the comparative degree is found in 1Pe 1:7<\/span> (polutimoteros, in the most authentic mss., “much more precious”); (b) in the metaphorical sense, “held in honor, esteemed, very dear,” Act 5:34<\/span>, “had in honor,” RV (AV, “had in reputation”); so in Heb 13:4<\/span>, RV, “let marriage be had in honor;” AV, “is honorable;” Act 20:24<\/span>, “dear,” negatively of Paul’s estimate of his life; Jam 5:7<\/span>, “precious” (of fruit); 1Pe 1:19<\/span>, “precious” (of the blood of Christ); 2Pe 1:4<\/span> (of God’s promises). See COSTLY, HONORABLE, REPUTATION, PRECIOUS. Cp. timiotes, preciousness, Rev 18:19<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “held in honor” (time, see above), “precious, dear,” is found in Luk 7:2<\/span>, of the centurion’s servant; Luk 14:8<\/span>, “more honorable;” Phi 2:29<\/span>, “honor” (AV, “reputation”), of devoted servants of Christ; in 1Pe 2:4<\/span>, 1Pe 2:6<\/span>, “precious,” of stones, metaphorically. See HONORABLE, REPUTATION, PRECIOUS. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n from agape, “love,” signifies “beloved;” it is rendered “very dear” in 1Th 2:8<\/span> (AV, “dear”), of the affection of Paul and his fellow workers for the saints at Thessalonica; in Eph 5:1<\/span>; Col 1:7<\/span>, AV, “dear;” RV, “beloved.” See BELOVED. <\/p>\n Note: In Col 1:13<\/span>, agape is translated “dear” in the AV; the RV, adhering to the noun, has “the Son of His love.” <\/p>\n Dear from time, “honor, price,” signifies (a), primarily, “accounted as of great price, precious, costly,” 1Co 3:12; Rev 17:4; Rev 18:12, Rev 18:16; Rev 21:19, and in the superlative degree, Rev 18:12; Rev 21:11; the comparative degree is found in 1Pe 1:7 (polutimoteros, in the most authentic mss., “much more precious”); (b) in the metaphorical … Continue reading “Dear”<\/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-42019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42019","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=42019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42019"}],"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":"