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Dictionaries :: Ground, Grounded

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
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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