is used of (1) the “tongues … like as of fire” which appeared at Pentecost; (2) “the tongue,” as an organ of speech, e.g., Mar 7:33<\/span>; Rom 3:13<\/span>; Rom 14:11<\/span>; 1Co 14:9<\/span>; Phi 2:11<\/span>; Jam 1:26<\/span>; Jam 3:5-6<\/span>, Jam 3:8<\/span>; 1Pe 3:10<\/span>; 1Jo 3:18<\/span>; Rev 16:10<\/span>; (3) (a) “a language,” coupled with phule, “a tribe,” laos, “a people,” ethnos, “a nation,” seven times in the Apocalypse, Rev 5:9<\/span>; Rev 7:9<\/span>; Rev 10:11<\/span>; Rev 11:9<\/span>; Rev 13:7<\/span>; Rev 14:6<\/span>; Rev 17:15<\/span>; (b) “the supernatural gift of speaking in another language without its having been learnt;” in Act 2:4-13<\/span> the circumstances are recorded from the viewpoint of the hearers; to those in whose language the utterances were made it appeared as a supernatural phenomenon; to others, the stammering of drunkards; what was uttered was not addressed primarily to the audience but consisted in recounting “the mighty works of God;” cp. Act 2:46<\/span>; in 1 Cor., chapters 12 and 14, the use of the gift of “tongues” is mentioned as exercised in the gatherings of local churches; 1Co 12:10<\/span> speaks of the gift in general terms, and couples with it that of “the interpretation of tongues;” chapt. 14 gives instruction concerning the use of the gift, the paramount object being the edification of the church; unless the “tongue” was interpreted the speaker would speak “not unto men, but unto God,” 1Co 14:2<\/span>; he would edify himself alone, 1Co 14:4<\/span>, unless he interpreted, 1Co 14:5<\/span>, in which case his interpretation would be of the same value as the superior gift of prophesying, as he would edify the church, 1Co 14:4-6<\/span>; he must pray that he may interpret, 1Co 14:13<\/span>; if there were no interpreter, he must keep silence, 1Co 14:28<\/span>, for all things were to be done “unto edifying,” 1Co 14:26<\/span>. “If I come … speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you,” says the Apostle (expressing the great object in all oral ministry), “unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?” (1Co 14:6<\/span>). “Tongues” were for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers, 1Co 14:22<\/span>, and especially to unbelieving Jews (see 1Co 14:21<\/span>): cp. the passages in the Acts. <\/p>\n There is no evidence of the continuance of this gift after apostolic times nor indeed in the later times of the Apostles themselves; this provides confirmation of the fulfillment in this way of 1Co 13:8<\/span>, that this gift would cease in the churches, just as would “prophecies” and “knowledge” in the sense of knowledge received by immediate supernatural power (cp. 1Co 14:6<\/span>). The completion of the Holy Scriptures has provided the churches with all that is necessary for individual and collective guidance, instruction, and edification. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “language” (Eng., “dialect”), is rendered “tongue” in the AV of Act 1:19<\/span>; Act 2:6<\/span>, Act 2:8<\/span>; Act 21:40<\/span>; Act 22:2<\/span>; Act 26:14<\/span>. See LANGUAGE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n is rendered “strange tongues” in 1Co 14:21<\/span>, RV (heteros, “another of a different sort,” see ANOTHER, and A, No. 1), AV, “other tongues.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n (or ebraisti, Westcott and Hort) denotes (a) “in Hebrew,” Rev 9:11<\/span>, RV (AV, “in the Hebrew tongue”); so Rev 16:16<\/span>; (b) in the Aramaic vernacular of Palestine, Joh 5:2<\/span>, AV, “in the Hebrew tongue” (RV, “in Hebrew”); in Joh 19:13<\/span>, Joh 19:17<\/span>, AV, “in the Hebrew” (RV, “in Hebrew”); in Joh 19:20<\/span>, AV and RV, “in Hebrew;” in Joh 20:16<\/span>, RV only, “in Hebrew (Rabboni).” <\/p>\n Note: Cp. Hellenisti, “in Greek,” Joh 19:20<\/span>, RV; Act 21:37<\/span>, “Greek.” See also Rhomaisti, under LATIN. <\/p>\n Tongue (-s) is used of (1) the “tongues … like as of fire” which appeared at Pentecost; (2) “the tongue,” as an organ of speech, e.g., Mar 7:33; Rom 3:13; Rom 14:11; 1Co 14:9; Phi 2:11; Jam 1:26; Jam 3:5-6, Jam 3:8; 1Pe 3:10; 1Jo 3:18; Rev 16:10; (3) (a) “a language,” coupled with phule, … Continue reading “Tongue (-s)”<\/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-90194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90194","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=90194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90194"}],"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":"