fan (advb.): Occurs twice in English Versions of the Bible, in the sense of gladly: (1) in Job 27:22 as the rendering of , barah, to flee with haste (from anything), He would fain flee out of his hand, literally, as in in of the King James Version, in fleeing he would flee; (2) in Luk 15:16, as the translation of , epithumeo, to fix the mind or desire on, He would fain have filled his belly with the husks which the swine did eat. the Revised Version (British and American) adds two instances: (1) Luk 13:31, Herod would fain kill thee; (2) Act 26:28, Thou wouldest fain make me a Christian. See ALMOST.<\/p>\n
“to will deliberately, wish, desire, be minded,” implying the deliberate exercise of volition (contrast No. 3), is translated “would fain” in Phm 1:13<\/span> (in the best mss.). See DISPOSED. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to set one’s heart upon, desire,” is translated “would fain” in Luk 15:16<\/span>, of the Prodigal Son. See DESIRE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to wish, to design to do anything,” expresses the impulse of the will rather than the intention (see No. 1); the RV translates it “would fain” in Luk 13:31<\/span>, of Herod’s desire to kill Christ, AV, “will (kill);” in 1Th 2:18<\/span>, of the desire of the missionaries to return to the church in Thessalonica. See DISPOSED. <\/p>\n Note: In Act 26:28<\/span>, in Agrippa’s statement to Paul, the RV rendering is “with but little persuasion thou wouldest fain make me a Christian.” The lit. rendering is “with (or in) little (labor or time) thou art persuading me so as to make (me) a Christian.” There is no verb for “wouldest” in the original, but it brings out the sense. <\/p>\n Fain fan (advb.): Occurs twice in English Versions of the Bible, in the sense of gladly: (1) in Job 27:22 as the rendering of , barah, to flee with haste (from anything), He would fain flee out of his hand, literally, as in in of the King James Version, in fleeing he would flee; (2) … Continue reading “Fain”<\/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-47161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47161","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=47161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47161"}],"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":"