1. The English word home represents more than one Greek word; most commonly gives the idea. Thus = at home (Act 2:46 Revised Version and AVm [Note: Vm Authorized Version margin.] , and Act 5:42 Revised Version ; Authorized Version from house to house and in every house); while in Act 20:20 = from house to house, Authorized Version and Revised Version , private as opposed to public teaching being referred to; and in Act 8:3 = [entering] into every house. At home renders in 1Co 11:34; 1Co 14:35. In 1Ti 5:4 widows children are bidden , show piety at home (Authorized Version ), or towards their own family (Revised Version ). In Tit 2:5 Revised Version the young married women are to be , workers at home (Authorized Version , keepers at home; the former word is not found elsewhere, but is attested by all the best Manuscripts ).<\/p>\n
The same idea is given by , lit. [Note: literally, literature.] their own belongings, in Act 21:6 (returned home);* [Note: , ones own people, in 1Ti 5:8, and especially in Joh 1:11, where both expressions are joined together. The Incarnate came to His own home ), but His own chosen people, the Jews ( ), received Him not.] and figuratively in 2Co 5:6; 2Co 5:8 by , to be at home (lit. [Note: literally, literature.] among the people), and , to be absent from home; perhaps also by the phrase, , in my Fathers house (figuratively, or else lit. [Note: literally, literature.] of the Temple), of Luk 2:49. Again, (Lat. civitas) conveys the idea of a home (cf. Heb 11:10; Heb 11:16; Heb 12:22; Heb 13:14, and especially Mat 12:25 : ). To us the word city conveys the idea of streets and buildings; to a Greek or Roman, and so to an early Christian, it means an organized society which is the home of those who inhabit it (see B. F. Westcott, Hebrews, 1889, p. 388ff.). So also we may paraphrase Php 3:20 thus: Our home () is in heaven, while on earth we are only travellers and passers-by.<\/p>\n
2. The idea of home is much dwelt upon in the Pastoral Epistles. There is a striking difference in the NT between the qualifications of an apostle in the widest sense, of a travelling missionary having oversight of the churches (such is also the meaning of apostle in the Didache), and of the local bishop or presbyter and deacon. The apostle may be married (1Co 9:5), but his home life is not emphasized; while in the case of the local officials the home is much spoken of. Thus in the Pastoral Epistles the bishop must be husband of one wife, given to hospitality, ruling well his own house, having his children in subjection; for ruling his family well leads to his ruling his flock well; a test of his having trained his children well is that they believe, and are not accused of riot and are not unruly (1Ti 3:1-5, Tit 1:6). Deacons must be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well (1Ti 3:12). These Epistles also deal generally with Christian home life; the faithful are to provide for their own households (1Ti 5:8); married women must be good house workers (above, 1; cf. the virtuous woman of Pro 31:10 ff.), and must love their husbands and children (Tit 2:4 f). Among widows qualifications is that of having brought up children, who in turn are bidden to requite their parents by supporting the widowed mother and grandmother (1Ti 5:10; cf. 1Ti 5:4; cf. 1Ti 5:16). We have several distant glimpses of devout Christian homes in the NT-of Timothy with his mother and grandmother at Lystra, of Philip with his daughters at Caesarea, and of some others, for which see Family.<\/p>\n
3. Hospitality is closely connected with the idea of home. For the large guest-rooms which made this possible on a comparatively extended scale, see House. Instances of hospitality are common in the apostolic writings. Simon the tanner entertains St. Peter (Act 10:6), Lydia at Philippi shows hospitality to St. Paul (Act 16:15; Act 16:40), the jailer there brings the apostles into his house and sets meat before them (Act 16:34); Titus Justus at Corinth (Act 18:7), Philip at Caesarea (Act 21:8), Mnason of Cyprus at Jerusalem, or at a village between Caesarea and Jerusalem (Act 21:16; see W. M. Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller, 1895, p. 302f.), Publius in Malta (Act 28:7)-all entertained the Apostle hospitably. In Rom 16:23 Gains is famous for this quality; he is the host of the whole Church, apparently at Corinth (cf. 1Co 1:14). It is just possible that he may be the same as the hospitable Gains of 3Jn 1:1; 3Jn 1:5, but the name is a common one. With the last passage contrast the want of hospitality shown by Diotrephes in 3Jn 1:9 f.<\/p>\n
The duty of showing hospitality is insisted on in the case of a bishop in 1Ti 3:2, Tit 1:8 (he is to be ), and in the case of a widow in 1Ti 5:10 (); and Christians in general are bidden to pursue (Rom 12:13) and not to forget (Heb 13:2) love unto strangers (), to be lovers of strangers (, 1Pe 4:9), i.e. not to be givers of feasts but to receive strangers (C. Bigg, St. Peter and St. Jude [International Critical Commentary , 1901], 173; cf. Job 31:32). In these injunctions there is a reminiscence of our Lords words, I was a stranger, and ye took me in (Mat 25:35). See, further, article Hospitality.<\/p>\n
A. J. Maclean.<\/p>\n
HOME<\/p>\n
1. The expressions bearing the sense of home are: (1) (Mat 8:8; also Joh 14:2, where we may prefer home to house, the rendering of the Authorized and Revised Versions ); (2) (Mar 5:19, Luk 1:23-56; Luk 9:61; Luk 15:6; also Joh 7:53 Authorized and Revised Versions , in the section concerning the adulteress); (3) (Joh 19:27, cf. also Joh 1:11 and Joh 16:32). As for (1) and (2), where we have the ordinary term = house employed, it is to be noted that a house naturally becomes a home under the associations of family life and affection; cf. the corresponding use of . (3), as a use of , illustrates a tendency to abbreviation and attenuation of phrasing in such connexions as this, , with the force of the possessive pronoun (= , ), appears in NT as in the LXX Septuagint , the OT, Apocrypha, and in such writers as Philo and Josephus (Deissmann, Bible Studies, English translation , p. 123f.). Cf., in this particular use, our expression at his fathers, and the attenuated Fr. phrase chez lui. The Vulgate in Joh 19:27 has the strict parallel in sua.<\/p>\n
2. The Gospels afford us a few glimpses of domestic interiors, forming a part of the simple background of the life of Jesus. We see the common domestic shadows of sickness and death beclouding the home of Simon Peter (Mar 1:30), of Jairus (Mar 5:22), of the Roman officer (Mat 8:5-6), of Lazarus and his sisters (John 11), and of others. Homely joys are illustrated in the marriage at Cana (John 2), in the sojourn of Jesus as a guest in the home at Bethany (Luk 10:28, Joh 12:1-2). Hospitality and entertaining are again exemplified in the ease of Levi (Luk 5:29) and of Simon the Pharisee (Luk 7:36). The ever-fresh interest attendant on the birth of a child as a notable incident in home life finds illustration in the story of the birth of John the Baptist (Luk 1:57-58). We have sight, too, of the sumptuous domestic establishments of the luxurious rich (Luk 16:19-20), in contrast with the simple abodes of the mass of the people and the condition of the homeless poor.<\/p>\n
No people ever prized the sanctities and blessings of the home more than the Jews. Their wonderful legislation bearing on domestie affairs, the sentiments that find expression in Psalms 127, 128, and in the panegyric of the Good Wife (Pro 31:10-31), the importance attaching to the family as the unit of national life, all bear witness to this. The whole system of feasts and fasts, joyous and solemn, including the weekly Sabbaths and the yearly commemorations and seasons,a system imparting so much colour and interest to the life of the peoplealso strongly tended to deepen the domestic sentiment, the home being to so large an extent the theatre for the prescribed rites and observances.<\/p>\n
The general conditions of Jewish home life in our Lords day offered marked points of contrast with what largely obtains among Western peoples. The greatest simplicity in the matter of meals and clothing, and the fewness of other wants, contributed to an easier condition of life in general. Grinding poverty was by no means common. Every man had a trade, and every father had to teach his son a trade; but a man was not obliged to toil long hours for a bare living. There was considerable leisure, and the Palestinian Jew had much time for contemplation, like the Arab of today. The man was often abroad in public places, frequenting discussions in the Temple and elsewhere, and mingling with his fellows. He was also charged with certain religious duties and observances from which women were exempt. The place of the woman, on the other hand, was preeminently in the home. (Note that one of the things desiderated for women in Tit 2:5 is that they should be ). In this respect the Jews shared the sentiment of other Oriental peoples; but the lot of the Jewish woman was much superior to that of non-Jewish women in the East, and her position in the home was better than that of the Roman matron of that period. A serious menace to the home, however, existed in the conditions obtaining as regards divorce. We know how Jesus dealt with this great abuse of easy divorce (Mar 10:2-12 = Mat 19:3-9). Some of the Jewish Rabbis also (as Shammai) set themselves against the laxity that had grown up. On the whole, it is probable that general practice was much better than current precepts. A Talmudic saying is significantThe altar itself weeps over the man who puts away his wife (Gittin 10b, Sanhed. 22a).<\/p>\n
The home as a factor in education was of the greatest importance. In our Lords time there was probably in addition only a school at the synagogue, taught by the hazzan. A religious atmosphere surrounded the Jewish child from the first, and the mother was the earliest teacher. As soon as the child could speak, his mother taught him a verse of the Torah (on the unity of God; and on the election of Israel). See art. Childhood.<\/p>\n
3. All interest in this subject, so far as the Gospels are concerned, is focussed in the home at Nazareth, where Jesus spent nearly the whole of His life. Actual information as to the life in that home is of the scantiest; but there can be no question that the best traditions of the Jewish home at its best were all exemplified there. There could never have been a better mother-teacher than Mary. The round of religious observances and duties would not fail of scrupulous performance. The conditions of the home itself were no doubt of the simplest and lowliest kind; but an abundance of human affection was an ample compensation. There was nothing to cripple or blight in any way the wonderful young life that was there unfolding. There is room also for interesting reflexion as to the history and experience of that family circle at Nazareth during all the years that Jesus was a member of it. The great crises of all domestic lifebirths, marriages, deathsmust surely, some or all of them, have marked the history of the home of Jesus during those years. As we think of Joseph, who, as it is commonly agreed, appears to have died at an early period, and of our Lords brothers and sisters (Mar 3:31; Mar 6:3), there is every reason to conclude that within the circle of the home Jesus had the experience of human bereavement and sorrow, and also of rejoicing, as His very own.<\/p>\n
4. From the day of His leaving Nazareth for the Jordan, Jesus ceased to have any settled home. The Son of Man, He once said, hath not where to lay his head (Mat 8:20 || Luk 9:58). It is true that this saying is not to be taken too literally (see Bruce, With Open Face, ch. ix.), for Jesus would be welcome in the houses of many friends, as He was notably in the home at Bethany. Still, during His public ministry He surrendered all the quiet joys of the old home life at Nazareth, and often in the course of His constant journeys must have had to endure the hardships and privations of a wanderer. When He called His first disciples to follow Him (Mat 4:18 ff. || Mar 1:16 ff., Luk 5:27 f.), He was summoning them to a life of homelessness resembling His own. He made readiness to leave home, with all its possessions and endearments, a test of fitness to be His true disciple (Luk 9:57-62 || Mat 8:19-22, cf. Mat 19:21 ||). And though He sent one home who wished to follow Him (Mar 5:19 || Luk 8:39), He taught that, in principle at least, His disciples should be willing to forsake not only house and lands, but parents and brethren and sisters, and even wife and children, for the Kingdom of Gods sake (Luk 18:28 ff. || Mat 19:29, Mar 10:29 f.). See, further, art. Family.<\/p>\n
Literature.See the works cited at end of art. Childhood, and add E. Stapfer, Palestine in the Time of Jesus Christ, English translation , chs. vii. and viii.; Stalker, Imago Christi, ch. ii.; Dale, Laws of Christ, ch. xi.<\/p>\n
J. S. Clemens.<\/p>\n
hom (, bayith, house, , makom, place, , ‘ohel, tent (Jdg 19:9), , shubh, to cause to turn back, , tawekh, , tokh, middle, midst (Deu 21:12); , okos, house, household, , endemeo, to be among one’s people, okos dios, one’s own proper (house)): This term in Scripture does not stand for a single specific word of the original, but for a variety of phrases. Most commonly it is a translation of the Hebrew bayith, Greek , house, which means either the building or the persons occupying it. In Gen 43:26 home and into the house represent the same phase, to the house (ha-bayethah). In Rth 1:21, hath brought me home again means has caused me to return. In 2Ch 25:10 home again means to their place. In Ecc 12:5 long home, the Revised Version (British and American) everlasting home, means eternal house. In Joh 19:27 unto his own home means unto his own things (so Joh 1:11). In 2Co 5:6 (and the Revised Version (British and American) 2Co 5:8, 2Co 5:9) be at home is a translation of endemeo, to be among one’s own people, as opposed to ekdemeo, to be or live abroad.<\/p>\n
See Family<\/p>\n
Family<\/span> <\/p>\n (A) MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS RELATING TO Deu 24:5<\/span>; Rth 1:21<\/span>; Mar 5:19<\/span>; Joh 19:27<\/span>; 1Ti 5:4<\/span>; Tit 2:5<\/span><\/p>\n (2) Heavenly Home<\/strong><\/p>\n Luk 16:9<\/span>; Joh 14:2<\/span><\/p>\n –SEE<\/strong> Heaven, 1356<\/p>\n (3) Admonitions concerning Abiding at<\/strong><\/p>\n Pro 25:17<\/span>; Hab 2:5<\/span>; Tit 2:5<\/span><\/p>\n (4) Examples of Love of Gen 31:30<\/span><\/p>\n Hobab<\/strong><\/p>\n Num 10:30<\/span><\/p>\n Barzillai<\/strong><\/p>\n 2Sa 19:37<\/span><\/p>\n David<\/strong><\/p>\n 2Sa 23:15<\/span><\/p>\n The Jews in Exile<\/strong><\/p>\n Psa 137:1<\/span>; Psa 137:2<\/span>; Psa 137:3<\/span>; Psa 137:4<\/span>; Psa 137:5<\/span>; Psa 137:6<\/span><\/p>\n (B) COURTSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n Gen 29:11-20<\/span>; Jdg 14:1-10<\/span><\/p>\n (C) BETROTHALS Ge 29.18<\/span>,19<\/span>,20<\/span><\/p>\n Special Privileges of the Betrothed<\/strong><\/p>\n Deu 20:7<\/span><\/p>\n David and Merab<\/strong><\/p>\n 1Sa 18:17<\/span><\/p>\n Joseph and Mary<\/strong><\/p>\n Luk 1:26<\/span>; Luk 1:27<\/span><\/p>\n (D) MARRIAGE Pro 18:22<\/span>; Jer 29:6<\/span>; 1Ti 3:12<\/span>; 1Ti 5:14<\/span>; Heb 13:4<\/span><\/p>\n –SEE<\/strong> Celibacy, SELF-DENIAL<\/p>\n (2) Solemn Obligations of<\/strong><\/p>\n Gen 2:24<\/span>; Mat 5:32<\/span>; Mar 10:7<\/span>; Mar 10:9<\/span>; Rom 7:2<\/span>; 1Co 7:10<\/span>; 1Co 7:11<\/span><\/p>\n For other references to Marriage, SEE 2255-2257, 2255|<\/p>\n (E) DOWRY<\/strong> given to brides<\/p>\n Gen 30:20<\/span>; Gen 34:12<\/span>; Exo 22:17<\/span>; Jos 15:18<\/span><\/p>\n (F) LOVE, FAMILY Gen 24:67<\/span>; Gen 29:20<\/span>; Gen 29:30<\/span>; Est 2:17<\/span>; Pro 5:19<\/span>; Son 8:7<\/span><\/p>\n Eph 5:28<\/span>; Col 3:19<\/span><\/p>\n (F)<\/strong> LOVE, FAMILY<\/p>\n (2) Examples of Mothers’ Love Gen 21:16<\/span><\/p>\n The Mother of Moses<\/strong><\/p>\n Exo 2:3<\/span><\/p>\n The Mother of Samuel<\/strong><\/p>\n 1Sa 2:19<\/span><\/p>\n Rizpah’s Love for her Sons<\/strong><\/p>\n 2Sa 21:9<\/span>; 2Sa 21:10<\/span><\/p>\n The Mother of Solomon’s Time<\/strong><\/p>\n 1Ki 3:26<\/span><\/p>\n The Shunammite Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n 2Ki4:20<\/span><\/p>\n The Mother’s Unforgettable Love<\/strong><\/p>\n Isa 49:15<\/span><\/p>\n The Canaanitish Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n Mat 15:22<\/span><\/p>\n The Mother of Jesus<\/strong><\/p>\n Joh 19:25<\/span><\/p>\n (3) Examples of Fathers’ Love Gen 31:28<\/span><\/p>\n Jacob<\/strong><\/p>\n Gen 37:35<\/span>; Gen 42:38<\/span>; Gen 46:30<\/span><\/p>\n David<\/strong><\/p>\n 2Sa 12:16<\/span>; 2Sa 13:39<\/span>; 2Sa 18:5<\/span><\/p>\n Jairus<\/strong><\/p>\n Mar 5:23<\/span>; Mar 9:24<\/span><\/p>\n Father of the Prodigal<\/strong><\/p>\n Luk 15:20<\/span><\/p>\n –SEE<\/strong> Partiality, HOME<\/p>\n (G) HUSBANDS AND WIVES Gen 2:23<\/span>; Gen 2:24<\/span>; Deu 24:5<\/span>; Pro 5:18<\/span>; Ecc 9:9<\/span>; Mar 10:7<\/span>; 1Co 7:11<\/span><\/p>\n Eph 5:25<\/span>; 1Pe 3:7<\/span><\/p>\n –SEE<\/strong> Divorce, HOME<\/p>\n (2) Duties of Wives<\/strong><\/p>\n Est 1:20<\/span>; Pro 31:27<\/span>; 1Co 7:10<\/span>; Eph 5:22<\/span>; Col 3:18<\/span>; 1Ti 3:11<\/span><\/p>\n Tit 2:4<\/span>; 1Pe 3:1<\/span><\/p>\n –SEE<\/strong> Marriage (2), HOME<\/p>\n (3) Wives’ Counsel,<\/strong> examples of<\/p>\n Jdg 13:22<\/span>; Jdg 13:23<\/span>; 2Ki 4:8-10<\/span>; Dan 5:10-12<\/span>; Mat 27:19<\/span><\/p>\n (H) PARENTAL DUTIES Deu 6:7<\/span>; Deu 6:20<\/span>; Deu 21:19<\/span><\/p>\n To Train<\/strong><\/p>\n Pro 22:6<\/span>; Isa 38:19<\/span>; Lam 2:19<\/span><\/p>\n To Provide for<\/strong><\/p>\n 2Co 12:14<\/span><\/p>\n To Nurture<\/strong><\/p>\n Eph 6:4<\/span>; Col 3:21<\/span><\/p>\n To Control<\/strong><\/p>\n 1Ti 3:4<\/span>; 1Ti 3:12<\/span><\/p>\n To Love<\/strong><\/p>\n Tit 2:4<\/span><\/p>\n (2) The Correction of Children<\/strong><\/p>\n Pro 13:24<\/span>; Pro 19:18<\/span>; Pro 22:15<\/span>; Pro 23:13<\/span><\/p>\n –SEE<\/strong> The Rod of Correction, ROD OF CORRECTION<\/p>\nFuente: Nave’s Topical Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
HOME<\/h2>\n
(1) General References to<\/strong><\/p>\n
Jacob<\/strong><\/p>\n
Jacob and Rachel<\/strong><\/p>\n
(1) Commended<\/strong><\/p>\n
(1) Conjugal<\/strong><\/p>\n
Hagar’s Love for her Child<\/strong><\/p>\n
Laban<\/strong><\/p>\n
(1) Duties of Husbands<\/strong><\/p>\n
(1) Special Duties Incumbent upon Parents
To Teach<\/strong><\/p>\n