“least,” is a superlative degree formed from the word elachus, “little,” the place of which was taken by mikros (the comparative degree being elasson, “less”); it is used of (a) size, Jam 3:4<\/span>; (b) amount; of the management of affairs, Luk 16:10<\/span> (twice); Luk 19:17<\/span>, “very little;” (c) importance, 1Co 6:2<\/span>, “smallest (matters);” (d) authority: of commandments, Mat 5:19<\/span>; (e) estimation, as to persons, Mat 5:19<\/span> (2nd part); Mat 25:40<\/span>, Mat 25:45<\/span>; 1Co 15:9<\/span>; as to a town, Mat 2:6<\/span>; as to activities or operations, Luk 12:26<\/span>; 1Co 4:3<\/span>, “a very small thing.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a comparative degree formed from No. 1, is used in Eph 3:8<\/span>, “less than the least.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “small little,” is translated “the least” in Act 8:10<\/span>; Heb 8:11<\/span>, with reference to rank or influence. See LITTLE, A, No. 1. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n the comparative of No. 3, is used of (a) size, Mat 13:32<\/span>, AV, “the least,” RV, “less;” Mar 4:31<\/span> [cp. No. 1 (a)]; (b) estimation, Mat 11:11<\/span>; Luk 7:28<\/span>, AV, “least,” RV, “but little,” marg., “lesser” (in the kingdom of heaven), those in the kingdom itself being less than John the Baptist [cp. No. 1 (e)]; Luk 9:48<\/span>. See LESS. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) In 1Co 6:4<\/span>, AV, exoutheneo, in the Passive Voice, “to be of no account,” is translated “is least esteemed” (RV, “are of no account”); see ACCOUNT. (2) In Luk 19:42<\/span>, the adverbial phrase kai ge, “at least,” is found in some mss.; the RV follows those in which it is absent. (3) In 1Co 9:2<\/span>, AV, the phrase alla ge is rendered “doubtless;” RV, “at least.” (4) In Act 5:15<\/span>, the phrase k’an (for kai ean, “even if”) denotes “at the least.” <\/p>\n Least “least,” is a superlative degree formed from the word elachus, “little,” the place of which was taken by mikros (the comparative degree being elasson, “less”); it is used of (a) size, Jam 3:4; (b) amount; of the management of affairs, Luk 16:10 (twice); Luk 19:17, “very little;” (c) importance, 1Co 6:2, “smallest (matters);” (d) … Continue reading “Least”<\/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-62199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62199","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=62199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62199"}],"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":"