primarily an adjective, denoting “loved, dear, or friendly,” became used as a noun, (a) masculine, Mat 11:19<\/span>; fourteen times in Luke (once feminine, Luk 15:9<\/span>); six in John; three in Acts; two in James, Jam 2:23<\/span>, “the friend of God;” Jam 4:4<\/span>, “a friend of the world;” 3Jo 1:14<\/span> (twice); (b) feminine, Luk 15:9<\/span>, “her friends.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “a comrade, companion, partner,” is used as a term of kindly address in Mat 20:13<\/span>; Mat 22:12<\/span>; Mat 26:50<\/span>. This, as expressing comradeship, is to be distinguished from No. 1, which is a term of endearment. Some mss. have the word in Mat 11:16<\/span>; the best have heterois, others, AV and RV, “fellows.” See FELLOW. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) The phrase hoi para autou, in Mar 3:21<\/span>, “his friends,” lit. means “the (ones) beside Him,” i.e., those belonging to him. (2) In Mar 5:19<\/span>, “thy friends” represents the phrase hoi soi, lit., “the (ones) to thee,” i.e., “thine own.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to persuade, influence,” is rendered “having made … their friend” in Act 12:20<\/span>, of the folks of Tyre and Sidon in winning the good will of Blastus, Herod’s chamberlain, possibly with bribes. See ASSURE, B, No. 3. <\/p>\n Friend (make one’s) primarily an adjective, denoting “loved, dear, or friendly,” became used as a noun, (a) masculine, Mat 11:19; fourteen times in Luke (once feminine, Luk 15:9); six in John; three in Acts; two in James, Jam 2:23, “the friend of God;” Jam 4:4, “a friend of the world;” 3Jo 1:14 (twice); (b) feminine, … Continue reading “Friend (make one’s)”<\/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-49242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49242","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=49242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49242"}],"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":"