The words , () and are all translated ‘ought,’ with other variations as to the first two. But there is a difference in their signification. Bengel says denotes ‘obligation;’ , ‘necessity.’ is to be under moral obligation, bound by duty, one ought, etc., and specially in personal aspects. See Eph 5:28; 2Co 12:11; 2Co 12:14; Act 17:29; Rom 15:1; 1Jn 2:6; 1Jn 3:16; 1Jn 4:11. Compare Luk 11:4 ‘indebted,’ Mat 18:28; Mat 18:30. (with its compounds) is with one exception the word for ‘owing,’ and what is owed, Phm 1:18; Rom 8:8; Rom 15:27; Rom 15:27, translated ‘debtor’ and ‘duty.’ In Luk 17:10 it is “that which was our duty”: Heb 2:17, “it behoved him”: 2Th 1:3; 2Th 2:13, “are bound.”<\/p>\n
is more general, denoting any kind of necessity, as that which lies in the nature of the case, or specially that which arises by divine appointment, and this gives it a greater strength: ‘must’ is its most frequent rendering. See 2Ti 2:6; Luk 22:7; Joh 3:7; Joh 3:14; Joh 3:30; Joh 4:4 (‘must needs’), Joh 4:24; Act 16:30; 1Co 15:53; Heb 9:26; Heb 11:6; Mar 14:31 (‘should,’ ‘should have to’); Act 5:29 ‘ought.’ These may illustrate the general use, and the following passages, out of many, the necessity established by the will and word of God: Mat 16:21; Mat 17:10; Mat 24:6; Mat 26:54; Luk 2:49; Luk 4:43; Luk 22:37; Luk 24:7; Luk 24:26 (‘ought’), Luk 24:44; Joh 9:4; Joh 20:9; Act 1:16; Act 1:22 (21); Act 3:21; Act 4:12; Act 9:16; Act 14:22; Act 23:11; Act 27:24; 1Co 15:25; 2Co 5:10; 1Ti 3:7; Rev 1:1<\/p>\n
occurs but once, Jam 3:10; coming from the root of , ‘to deliver an oracle,’ ‘to be fated,’ it passes into the sense of what is necessary, what behoves or is fitting (or the reverse with , negative, as in Jam 3:10). Compared with the other words, it is rather a necessity of time or circumstance, and has not the same moral force. Compare the kindred verb (from , ‘need, necessity’): ‘to have need of,’ Mat 6:32; Rom 16:2; ‘need,’ Luk 11:8; 2Co 3:1<\/p>\n
36. OUGHT. MUST The words , () and are all translated ‘ought,’ with other variations as to the first two. But there is a difference in their signification. Bengel says denotes ‘obligation;’ , ‘necessity.’ is to be under moral obligation, bound by duty, one ought, etc., and specially in personal aspects. See Eph 5:28; 2Co … Continue reading “36. OUGHT. MUST”<\/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-72499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72499","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=72499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}