Vine's Expository Dictionary

Clothe "to put clothes round" (amphi, "around," hennumi, "to clothe"), "to invest," signifies, in the Middle Voice, to put clothing on oneself, e.g., Mat 6:30, …

Clothe (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H3847Original Word: labashUsage Notes: "to put on (a garment), clothe, wear, be clothed." A common Semitic term, thi…

Clothing, Cloths, Clothes, Cloke, Coat probably by metathesis from phainoles (Latin paenula), "a mantle," denotes a traveling "cloak" for protection against sto…

Cloud Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H6051Original Word: ‘ananUsage Notes: "cloud; fog; storm cloud; smoke." Cognates of this word appear in Aramaic and Arabic…

Cloven "to part asunder" (dia, "asunder," meros, "a part"), is translated "cloven" in the AV of Act 2:3, RV, "parting asunder." See DIVIDE, PART.

Cluster "a cluster, or bunch, bunch of grapes," is found in Rev 14:18. Note: Cp. staphule, "a bunch of grapes, the ripe cluster," stressing the grapes themselve…

Coals "a burning coal" (cp. Eng., "anthracite,") is used in the plural in Rom 12:20, metaphorically in a proverbial expression, "thou shalt heap coals of fire o…

Coast, Coasting "a bound, boundary, limit, frontier" (akin to horizo, "to bound, limit"), is rendered "coasts" ten times in the AV, but "borders" in Mat 4:13, a…

Coat * For COAT (ependeutes) see CLOKE, CLOTHING

Cock, Cock-crowing "a cock," perhaps connected with a Hebrew phrase for the oncoming of the light, is found in the passages concerning Peter's denial of the Lor…

Cold "coldness, cold," appears in Joh 18:18, Act 28:2, 2Co 11:27. "cool, fresh, cold, chilly" (fuller in expression than psuchos), is used in the natural sense …

Collection akin to lego, "to collect," is used in 1Co 1:16-2; in the latter verse, AV "gatherings," RV, "collections," as in 1Co 16:1. See GATHERING.

Colony transliterates the Latin colonia. Roman colonies belonged to three periods and classes, (a) those of the earlier republic before 100 B.C., which were sim…

Color * For COLOR (Act 27:30) see CLOKE

Colt "a foal," whether "colt or filly," had the general significance of "a young creature;" in Mat 21:2, and parallel passages, "an ass's colt."

Come (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H935Original Word: bô’Usage Notes: See OFFER (TO) usage notes.Usage Number: 2Strong's Number: H5066Original Word: naga…

Come Behind * For COME BEHIND see BEHIND

Come up (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H5927Original Word: ‘alâUsage Notes: "to go up, ascend, offer up." This word occurs in all Semi…

Come, Came (see also Coming) the most frequent verb, denoting either "to come, or to go," signifies the act, in contrast with heko (see No. 22, below), which st…

Comeliness, Comely "elegance of figure, gracefulness, comeliness" (eu, "well," schema, "a form"), is found in this sense in 1Co 12:23. akin to A, "elegant in fi…

Comfort, Comforter, Comfortless means "a calling to one's side" (para, "beside," kaleo, "to call"); hence, either "an exhortation, or consolation, comfort," e.g…

Coming (Noun) "an entrance" (eis, "in," hodos, "a way"), "an entering in," is once translated "coming," Act 13:24, of the coming of Christ into the nation of Is…

Command (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H6680Original Word: sawâUsage Notes: "to command." This verb occurs only in biblical Hebrew (in all periods) and im…

Command (Verbs) signifies "to set in order, appoint, command," Mat 11:1, Luk 8:55, Luk 1:17-10, Act 18:2, Act 23:31; "gave order," 1Co 16:1, RV. So in Act 24:23…

Commander Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H8269Original Word: sarUsage Notes: "official; leader; commander; captain; chief; prince; ruler." This word, which has…

Commandment Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H4687Original Word: miswâUsage Notes: "commandment." This noun occurs 181 times in the Old Testament. Its first occu…

Commend, Commendation "to praise," is an intensive form of aineo, Luk 16:8. It is elsewhere translated by the verb "to praise," in the RV, Rom 15:11, 1Co 11:2, …

Commit, Commission * (1) In the sense of "doing or practicing." to work, is translated by the verb "to commit" (of committing sin), in Jam 2:9. This is a strong…

Commodius (not) "not commodius," lit., "not-well-placed" (from a, "not," n, euphonic, eu, "well," thetos, "from" tithemi, "to put, place"), is found in Act 27:1…

Common, Commonly denotes (a) "common, belonging to several" (Lat., communis), said of things had in common, Act 2:44, Act 4:32; of faith, Tit 1:4; of salvation,…

Commonwealth see CITIZENSHIP, No. 3. see CITIZENSHIP, No. 4.

Commotion * For COMMOTION see CONFUSION, TUMULT

Commune signifies "to speak with anyone" (dia, "by turns," laleo, "to speak"), Luk 6:11; in Luk 1:65, "to talk over, to noise abroad." The idea that laleo and i…

Communicate, Communication is used in two senses, (a) "to have a share in," Rom 15:27, 1Ti 5:22, Heb 2:14, 1Pe 4:13, 2Jo 1:11; (b) "to give a share to, go share…

Communion "a having in common (koinos), partnership, fellowship" (see COMMUNICATE), denotes (a) the share which one has in anything, a participation, fellowship…

Compacted and transitively sunistao, "to stand together" (sun, "with," histemi, "to stand"), is rendered "compacted," in 2Pe 3:5, of the earth as formerly arran…

Companion Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H7453Original Word: rea‘Usage Notes: "friend; companion." This noun is also represented in Akkadia…

Company (Noun and Verb) "a throng of people, an irregular crowd," most usually "a disorganized throng;" in Act 6:7, however, it is said of a company of the prie…

Compare, Comparison denotes (a) "to join fitly, to combine," 1Co 2:13, either in the sense of combining spiritual things with spiritual, adapting the discourse …

Compass denotes "to encircle, surround," and is found in the best texts in Joh 10:24, "came round about," and Rev 20:9, of a camp surrounded by foes; some mss. …

Compassion, Compassionate "to have pity, a feeling of distress through the ills of others," is used of God's compassion, Rom 9:15. "to be moved as to one's inwa…

Compel denotes "to put constraint upon (from ananke, 'necessity'), to constrain," whether by threat, entreaty, force or persuasion; Christ "constrained" the dis…

Complainer, Complaint denotes "one who complains," lit., "complaining of one's lot" (memphomai, "to blame," moira, "a fate, lot"); hence, "discontented, querulo…

Complete (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H7999Original Word: shalemUsage Notes: "to finish, complete, repay, reward," The Hebrew root d…

Complete, Completion, Completely "to complete:" see ACCOMPLISH, No. 4. "to fit out" (ek, "out," intensive, artos, "a joint;" or from artios, perfect, lit., "exa…

Comprehend * For COMPREHEND see APPREHEND, Joh 1:5, AV, and SUM UP

Conceal "to conceal thoroughly" (para, "beside," intensive, kalupto, "to hide"), is found in Luk 9:45, of "concealing" from the disciples the fact of the delive…

Conceits lit., "in yourselves," is used with phronimos, "wise," in Rom 11:25, "(wise) in your own conceits (i.e., opinions)."

Conceive "to conceive, beget:" see BEGET, A, No. 1. lit., "to take together" (sun, "with," lambano, "to take or receive"), is used (a) of a woman, to "conceive,…

Concern (-eth) * 1. The neuter plural of the article ("the things"), with the genitive case of a noun, is used in 2Co 11:30 of Paul's infirmity, "the things tha…