Vine's Expository Dictionary

Spin "to spin," is found in Mat 6:28, Luk 12:27, of the lilies of the field (see LILY).

Spirit Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H7307Original Word: rûah?Usage Notes: "breath; air; strength; wind; breeze; spirit; courage; temper; Spirit." This noun h…

Spirit (of the Dead) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H178Original Word: ’ôbUsage Notes: "spirit (of the dead); necromancer; pit." This word has cognates in Sume…

Spiritual "always connotes the ideas of invisibility and of power. It does not occur in the Sept. nor in the Gospels; it is in fact an after-Pentecost word. In …

Spit "to spit," occurs in Mar 7:33, Mar 8:23, Joh 9:6. In the Sept., Num 12:14. "to spit upon" (en, "in," and No. 1), occurs in Mat 26:67, Mat 27:30, Mar 10:34,…

Spitefully (entreat) used transitively, denotes "to outrage, treat insolently;" "to entreat shamefully" in Mat 22:6, RV (AV, "spitefully"); so in Luk 18:32, RV;…

Spittle akin to ptuo, "to spit," occurs in Joh 9:6.

Splendor Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H1935Original Word: hôdUsage Notes: "splendor; majesty; authority." A possible cognate of this word appears in Arabic. …

Split Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H1234Original Word: baqa‘Usage Notes: "to cleave, split, break open, break through." This word occurs in all the periods o…

Spoil (Noun and Verb), Spoiling used in the plural, denotes "arms stripped from a foe;" "spoils" in Luk 11:22. primarily "the top of a heap" (akros, "highest, t…

Sponge was the medium by which vinegar was carried to the mouth of Christ on the Cross, Mat 27:48, Mar 15:36, Joh 19:29.

Sporting occurs in 2Pe 2:13 (RV, "revel").

Spot (Noun and Verb) "a spot or stain," is used metaphorically (a) of moral blemish, Eph 5:27; (b) of lascivious and riotous persons, 2Pe 2:13. is rendered "spo…

Spread "to spread," is so rendered in Mat 21:8, RV, twice; Mar 11:8, RV, once. See FURNISH. "to spread under" (hupo), of clothes, is used in Luk 19:36. "to dist…

Spread Out (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H6566Original Word: parasUsage Notes: "to spread out, scatter, display." Found in both ancient and modern Hebrew…

Spring (Noun and Verb) "to become," is used in the best texts in Heb 11:12, "sprang" (some have gennao, in the Passive Voice, rendered in the same way). "to ari…

Sprinkle (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H2236Original Word: zaraqUsage Notes: "to throw; sprinkle; strew; toss; scatter abundantly." This word is found in…

Sprinkle, Sprinkling "to sprinkle" (a later form of rhaino), is used in the Active Voice in Heb 9:13, of "sprinkling" with blood the unclean, a token of the eff…

Spue * For SPUE see SPEW

Spy Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H6822Original Word: s?apâUsage Notes: "to overlay, spy, keep watch." This word is found in both biblical…

Spy (Noun and Verb) an adjective denoting "suborned to lie in wait" (en, "in," kathiemi, "to send down"), is used as a noun in Luk 20:20, "spies." In the Sept.,…

Stablish * For STABLISH see ESTABLISH

Staff, Staves rendered "staff" or "staves" in Mat 10:10, parallel passages, and Heb 11:21, see ROD. "wood," then, "anything made of wood," e.g., "a cudgel" or "…

Stagger * For STAGGER see WAVER

Stair "an ascent" (akin to anabaino, "to go up"), denotes "a flight of stairs," Act 21:35, Act 21:40. These were probably the steps leading down from the castle…

Stall * For STALL see MANGER

Stanch transitively, "to cause to stand," is used intransitively ("to stand still") in Luk 8:44, translated "stanched." See STAND.

Stand (Noun and Verb), Standing, Stood "a lampstand," is translated "stand" in Mat 5:15 and parallel passages (AV, "candlestick"). See LAMPSTAND. (a) transitive…

Stand (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H5324Original Word: nas?abUsage Notes: "to stand, station, set up, erect." Found in both ancient …

Star "a star," Mat 1:2-10, Mat 24:29, Mar 13:25, 1Co 15:41, Rev 6:13, Rev 1:8-12, Rev 9:1, Rev 12:1, Rev 12:4, isused metaphorically, (a) of Christ, as "the mor…

State * For STATE see ESTATE, Notes

Statue Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H6754Original Word: s?elemUsage Notes: "statue; image; copy." Cognates of this word appear in Ugaritic and Phoenician (pe…

Stature * For STATURE see AGE, A, No. 3

Statute Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H2706Original Word: h?oqUsage Notes: "statute; prescription; rule; law; regulation." This noun is de…

Staves * For STAVES see STAFF

Stay "to hold fast, hold back," is used in the sense of detaining in Luk 4:42, "would have stayed (Him)," RV. See HOLD. has the meaning "to wait in a place, to …

Steadfast * For STEADFAST see STEDFAST

Steal "to steal," akin to kleptes, "a thief" (cp. Eng., "kleptomania"), occurs in Mat 1:6-20, Mat 19:18, Mat 27:64, Mat 28:13, Mar 10:19, Luk 18:20, Joh 10:10, …

Stedfast, Stedfastly, Stedfastness "firm, secure" (akin to baino, "to go"), is translated "steadfast" in 2Co 1:7, Heb 2:2, Heb 3:14, AV (RV, "firm"); Heb 6:19. …

Steep "a steep bank" (akin to kremannumi, "to hang"), occurs in Mat 8:32, Mar 5:13, Luk 8:33, RV, "the steep" (AV, "a steep place"). In the Sept., 2Ch 25:12.

Steersman * For STEERSMAN see GOVERNOR, B, Note

Step Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H6471Original Word: pa‘amUsage Notes: "step; foot; hoofbeats; pedestal; stroke; anvil." This noun's att…

Step (Noun and Verb) "a footstep, a track," is used metaphorically of the "steps" (a) of Christ's conduct, 1Pe 2:21; (b) of Abraham's faith, Rom 4:12; (c) of id…

Stern the feminine form of the adjective prumnos, "hindmost," is rendered "stern" in Act 27:29; and in the RV in Act 27:41, Mar 4:38. See PART, A, Note (2).

Steward, Stewardship primarily denoted "the manager of a household or estate" (oikos, "a house," nemo, "to arrange"), "a steward" (such were usually slaves or f…

Stick denotes "a dry stick" (from phrugo, "to parch"); in the plural, "brushwood," Act 28:3.

Stick fast primarily "to prop, fix firmly," is used intransitively in Act 27:41 of a ship driving ashore, RV, "struck."

Stiffnecked from skleros, "harsh, hard," trachelos, "a neck," is used metaphorically in Act 7:51.

Still (Adverb) "yet, as yet, still," is translated "still" in the RV in 1Co 12:31, 2Co 1:10, Gal 1:10, Gal 5:11; AV and RV in Rev 22:11 (four times), where the …

Still (Verb) in the Passive Voice, is rendered "be still" in Mar 4:39, see MUZZLE.