A-1 | Noun | Strong's Number: g1065 | Greek: ge |
Ground, Grounded:
"the earth, land," etc., often denotes "the ground," e.g., Mat 10:29; Mar 8:6.
See EARTH.
A-2 | Noun | Strong's Number: g1475 | Greek: edaphos |
Ground, Grounded:
"a bottom, base," is used of the "ground" in Act 22:7, suggestive of that which is level and hard. Cp. B, No. 1, below.
A-3 | Noun | Strong's Number: g5561 | Greek: chora |
Ground, Grounded:
"land, country," is used of property, "ground," in Luk 12:16, "the ground (of a certain rich man)."
See COUNTRY.
A-4 | Noun | Strong's Number: g5564 | Greek: chorion |
Ground, Grounded:
a diminutive of No. 3, "a piece of land, a place, estate," is translated "parcel of ground" in Jhn 4:5.
See FIELD.
A-5 | Noun | Strong's Number: g1477 | Greek: hedraioma |
Ground, Grounded:
"a support, bulwark, stay" (from hedraios, "steadfast, firm;" from hedra, "a seat"), is translated "ground" in 1Ti 3:15 (said of a local church); the RV marg., "stay" is preferable.
Notes:
(1) In Mar 4:16 the RV rightly has "rocky places" (petrodes) for AV, "stoney ground."
(2) In Act 27:29, for the AV, "rocks" the RV has "rocky ground," lit., "rough places," i.e., a rocky shore.
(3) In Luk 14:18, agros, "a field," is translated "a piece of ground," AV, RV, "a field."
See FIELD.
B-1 | Verb | Strong's Number: g1474 | Greek: edaphizo |
Ground, Grounded:
akin to A, No. 2:
see DASH.
B-2 | Verb | Strong's Number: g2311 | Greek: themelioo |
Ground, Grounded:
signifies "to lay the foundation of, to found" (akin to themelios, "a foundation;" from tithemi, "to put"), and is rendered "grounded" in Eph 3:17, said of the condition of believers with reference to the love of Christ; in Col 1:23, of their continuance in the faith.
See FOUND.
C-1 | Adverb | Strong's Number: g5476 | Greek: chamai |
Ground, Grounded:
(akin to Lat., humi, "on the ground," and homo, "man"), signifies "on the ground," Jhn 9:6, of the act of Christ in spitting on the "ground" before anointing the eyes of a blind man; in Jhn 18:6, "to the ground," of the fall of the rabble that had come to seize Christ in Gethsemane.
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