“near, nigh,” frequently rendered “at hand,” is used (a) of place, e.g., of the Lord’s sepulchre, Joh 19:42<\/span>, “nigh at hand;” (b) of time, e.g., Mat 26:18<\/span>; Luk 21:30-31<\/span>, RV, “nigh,” AV, “nigh at hand;” in Phi 4:5<\/span>, “the Lord is at hand,” it is possible to regard the meaning as that either of (a) or (b); the following reasons may point to (b): (1) the subject of the preceding context has been the return of Christ, Phi 3:20-21<\/span>; (2) the phrase is a translation of the Aramaic “Maranatha,” 1Co 16:22<\/span>, a Christian watchword, and the use of the title “the Lord” is appropriate; (3) the similar use of the adverb in Rev 1:3<\/span>; Rev 22:10<\/span>; (4) the similar use of the corresponding verb (see B) in Rom 13:12<\/span>; Heb 10:25<\/span>, “drawing nigh,” RV; Jam 5:8<\/span>; cp. 1Pe 4:7<\/span>. See NEAR, NIGH, READY. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n See APPROACH, A. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) In 2Th 2:2<\/span>, AV, the verb enistemi, “to be present” (en, “in,” histemi, “to cause to stand”), is wrongly translated “is at hand;” the RV correctly renders it, “is (now) present;” the Apostle is counteracting the error of the supposition that “the Day of the Lord” (RV), a period of Divine and retributive judgments upon the world, had already begun. <\/p>\n (2) In 2Ti 4:6<\/span>, AV, the verb ephistemi, “to stand by, to come to or upon” (epi, “upon,” histemi, “to make to stand”), is rendered “is at hand,” of the Apostle’s departure from this life; the RV “is come” represent the vivid force of the statement, expressing suddenness or imminence. <\/p>\n Hand (at hand) “near, nigh,” frequently rendered “at hand,” is used (a) of place, e.g., of the Lord’s sepulchre, Joh 19:42, “nigh at hand;” (b) of time, e.g., Mat 26:18; Luk 21:30-31, RV, “nigh,” AV, “nigh at hand;” in Phi 4:5, “the Lord is at hand,” it is possible to regard the meaning as that … Continue reading “Hand (at hand)”<\/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-52983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52983","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=52983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52983"}],"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":"