{"id":62313,"date":"2022-09-29T00:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/left-adjective\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T00:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:58:02","slug":"left-adjective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/left-adjective\/","title":{"rendered":"Left (Adjective)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Left (Adjective)<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> is used (a) of the &#8220;left&#8221; hand, in <span class='bible'>Mat 6:3<\/span>, the word &#8220;hand&#8221; being understood; in connection with the armor of righteousness, in <span class='bible'>2Co 6:7<\/span>, &#8220;(on the right hand and) on the left,&#8221; lit., &#8220;(of the weapons &#8230; the right and) the left;&#8221; (b) in the phrase &#8220;on the left,&#8221; formed by ex (for ek), &#8220;from,&#8221; and the genitive plural of this adjective, <span class='bible'>Mar 10:37<\/span> (some mss. have No. 2 here); <span class='bible'>Luk 23:33<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> lit., &#8220;of good name,&#8221; or &#8220;omen&#8221; (eu, &#8220;well,&#8221; onoma, &#8220;a name&#8221;), a word adopted to avoid the ill-omen attaching to the &#8220;left&#8221; (omens from the &#8220;left&#8221; being unlucky, but a good name being desired for them, cp. aristeros, lit., &#8220;better of two,&#8221; euphemistic for the ill-omened laios and skaios; cp., too, the Eng., &#8220;sinister,&#8221; from the Latin word meaning &#8220;left&#8221;), is used euphemistically for No. 1, either (a) simply as an adjective in <span class='bible'>Rev 10:2<\/span>, of the &#8220;left&#8221; foot; in <span class='bible'>Act 21:3<\/span>, &#8220;on the left&#8221; (lit., &#8220;left&#8221;); or (b) with the preposition ex (for ek), signifying &#8220;on the left hand,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Mat 20:21<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Mat 20:23<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mat 25:33<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Mat 25:41<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mat 27:38<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 10:40<\/span> (for <span class='bible'>Mar 10:37<\/span>, in some mss., see No. 1); <span class='bible'>Mar 15:27<\/span>. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left (Adjective) is used (a) of the &#8220;left&#8221; hand, in Mat 6:3, the word &#8220;hand&#8221; being understood; in connection with the armor of righteousness, in 2Co 6:7, &#8220;(on the right hand and) on the left,&#8221; lit., &#8220;(of the weapons &#8230; the right and) the left;&#8221; (b) in the phrase &#8220;on the left,&#8221; formed by ex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/left-adjective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Left (Adjective)&#8221;<\/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-62313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62313","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=62313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}