Dictionaries :: Cast

Cast:

"to throw, hurl, in contrast to striking," is frequent in the four Gospels and Revelation; elsewhere it is used only in Acts. In Mat 5:30 some mss. have this verb (AV, "should be cast"); the most authentic have aperchomai, "to go away," RV, "go."
See ARISE, BEAT, DUNG, LAY, POUR, PUT, SEND, STRIKE, THROW, THRUST.

Cast:

denotes "to throw with a sudden motion, to jerk, cast forth;" "cast down," Mat 15:30; 27:5; "thrown down," Luk 4:35; "thrown," Luk 17:2 (AV, "cast"); rhipteo in Act 22:23 (AV, "cast off"), of the "casting" off of clothes (in the next sentence ballo, No. 1, is used of "casting" dust into the air); in Act 27:19 "cast out," of the tackling of a ship; in Act 27:29 "let go" (AV, "cast"), of anchors; in Mat 9:36, "scattered," said of sheep.
See THROW, SCATTER.

Cast:

lit., "to fall out," is translated "be cast ashore," in Act 27:29, RV, AV, "have fallen upon."
See EFFECT, FAIL, FALL, NOUGHT.

A number of compound verbs consisting of ballo or rhipto, with prepositions prefixed, denote to cast, with a corresponding English preposition. Compounds of ballo are:

Cast:

"to throw off from, to lay aside, to cast away," Mar 10:50; Hbr 10:35.

Note: Apobole, "casting away" (akin to No. 4), is used of Israel in Rom 11:15; elsewhere, Act 27:22, "loss" (of life).

Cast:

"to cast out of, from, forth," is very frequent in the Gospels and Acts; elsewhere, in Gal 4:30; 3Jo 1:10; in Jam 2:25, "sent out;" in Rev 11:2, "leave out" (marg., "cast without").
See BRING, No. 28, DRIVE, EXPEL, LEAVE, PLUCK, PULL, PUT, SEND, TAKE, THRUST.

Cast:

"to cast into," is used in Luk 12:5.

Cast:

"to cast on, or upon," is used in this sense in Mar 11:7; 1Cr 7:35.
See BEAT (No. 5), FALL, No. 11, LAY, PUT, No. 8, STRETCH.

Cast:

signifies "to cast down," 2Cr 4:9, AV, "cast down," RV, "smitten down;" Hbr 6:1, "laying."
See LAY. Some mss. have this verb in Rev 12:10 (for ballo).

Cast:

to cast around, occurs Mar 1:16.

Cast:

"to cast about, or around," is used in 23 of its 24 occurrences, of putting on garments, clothing, etc.; it is translated "cast about" in Mar 14:51; Act 12:8; in Luk 19:43, used of "casting" up a bank or palisade against a city (See RV and marg.), AV, "shall cast a trench about thee."
See CLOTHE, No. 6, PUT.

Cast:

"to cast off," Act 27:43, of shipwrecked people in throwing themselves into the water.

Cast:

"to cast upon,"

(a) lit., "of casting garments on a colt," Luk 19:35;

(b) figuratively, "of casting care upon God," 1Pe 5:7.

Cast:

"to thrust away" (apo, "away," otheo, "to thrust"), in the NT used in the Middle Voice, signifying "to thrust from oneself, to cast off, by way of rejection," Act 7:27, 39; 13:46; Rom 11:1, 2; 1Ti 1:19.
See PUT and THRUST.

Cast:

kata, "down," haireo, "to take, to cast down, demolish," in 2Cr 10:5, of strongholds and imaginations.
See DESTROY, PULL, PUT, TAKE.

Note: The corresponding noun kathairesis, "a casting down," is so rendered in 2Cr 10:4 (AV, "pulling down") and 2Cr 13:10 (AV, "destruction").

Cast:

"to reason" (dia, "through," logizomai, "to reason"), is translated "cast in (her) mind," Luk 1:29.
See DISPUTE, MUSING, REASON, THINK.

Cast:

"to put off, lay aside," denotes, in the Middle Voice, "to put off from oneself, cast off," used figuratively of works of darkness, Rom 13:12, "let us cast off," (aorist tense, denoting a definite act).
See LAY, No. 8, PUT, No. 5.

Cast:

"to expose, cast out" (ek, "out," tithemi, "to put"), is said of a new-born child in Act 7:21. In Act 7:19 "cast out" translates the phrase poieo, "to make," with ekthetos, "exposed," a verbal form of ektithemi.
See EXPOUND.

Cast:

"to take away," is used in Act 27:40, as a nautical term, RV, "casting off," AV, "taken up."
See TAKE.

Notes:

(1) For zemioo, "cast away," Luk 9:25, see FORFEIT.

(2) For katakremnizo, Luk 4:29 (AV, "cast down headlong"), see THROW.

(3) For oneidizo, Mat 27:44 (AV, "cast in one's teeth"), see REPROACH.

(4) For paradidomi, Mat 4:12 (AV, "cast into prison"), see DELIVER.

(5) For atheteo, 1Ti 5:12 (AV, "cast off"), see REJECT.

(6) For ekteino, Act 27:30 (AV, "cast out"), see LAY No. 13.

(7) For tapeinos, 2Cr 7:6 (AV, "cast down"), see LOWLY.

Cast:

denotes "a throw" (akin to ballo, "to throw"), and is used in Luk 22:21 in the phrase "a stone's cast," of the distance from which the Lord was parted from the disciples in the garden of Gethsemane.

Note: In Jam 1:17, aposkiasma (from aposkiazo, "to cast a shadow"), is rendered "shadow that is cast," RV.

Cast:

signifies not standing the test, rejected, (a, negative, and dokimos, "tested, approved"); it is said of things, e.g., the land, Hbr 6:8, "rejected," and of persons, Rom 1:28, "reprobate;" 1Cr 9:27, AV, "castaway," RV "rejected" (i.e., disapproved, and so rejected from present testimony, with loss of future reward); 2Cr 13:5-7, "reprobate" (sing. in RV in each verse), i.e., that will not stand the test; 2Ti 3:8, "reprobate (concerning the faith)," Tts 1:16, "reprobate."
See REJECT, REPROBATE.