“a word, speech, discourse, account,” hence also “that which is spoken of, a matter, affair, thing,” is translated “matter” in Mar 1:45<\/span>; Act 8:21<\/span>; Act 15:6<\/span>; Act 19:38<\/span>; in the RV of Phi 4:15<\/span>, “in the matter of” (AV, “concerning”). See ACCOUNT. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n akin to prasso, “to do,” denotes (a) “that which has been done, a deed,” translated “matters” in Luk 1:1<\/span>, RV (AV, “things”); “matter” in 2Co 7:11<\/span>; (b) “that which is being done, an affair,” translated “matter” in Rom 16:2<\/span>, RV (AV, “business”); 1Co 6:1<\/span>, in a forensic sense, “a lawsuit” (frequently found with this meaning in the papyri); 1Th 4:6<\/span>, “in the matter,” i.e., the “matter” under consideration, which, as the preceding words show, is here the sin of adultery. See BUSINESS, B, Note (1), THING. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “an accusation, charge,” Act 25:16<\/span>, RV, “matter laid against him;” elsewhere, Act 23:29<\/span>, “charge;” see ACCUSATION, A, No. 3. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) In Gal 2:6<\/span>, the statement “it maketh no matter” translates the verb diaphero, “to bear asunder, make a difference,” with ouden, “nothing,” used adverbially, i.e., “it makes no difference (to me);” his commission from the Lord relieved him of responsibility to the authority of the Apostles. (2) In 1Co 9:11<\/span>, RV, the neuter of the adjective megas “great,” is translated “a great matter” (AV, “a great thing”). (3) In Jam 3:5<\/span>, AV, hule, “a wood, forest,” is translated “a matter” (RV, and AV marg., “wood”). In older English the word “matter” actually meant “wood” (like its Latin original, materia). (4) In Act 17:32<\/span>, the AV adds “matter” to the pronoun “this,” RV, “(concerning) this.” (5) In 2Co 8:19<\/span>, RV, the phrase, lit., “in this grace.” (6) In 2Co 8:20<\/span>, RV, the phrase, lit., “in this bounty” is translated “in the matter of this bounty” (AV, “in this abundance”). (7) In 2Co 9:5<\/span>, the phrase, lit., “as a bounty” is amplified to “as a matter of bounty.” (8) For 1Pe 4:15<\/span> see BUSYBODY. See also OTHER, THIS, THESE, WEIGHTIER, WRONG. <\/p>\n Matter, Matters “a word, speech, discourse, account,” hence also “that which is spoken of, a matter, affair, thing,” is translated “matter” in Mar 1:45; Act 8:21; Act 15:6; Act 19:38; in the RV of Phi 4:15, “in the matter of” (AV, “concerning”). See ACCOUNT. akin to prasso, “to do,” denotes (a) “that which has been … Continue reading “Matter, Matters”<\/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-65774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65774","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=65774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65774"}],"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":"