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Ἀβιληνη 🇬🇷 [WH 🇬🇷. (see s. v. 🇬🇷)], 🇬🇷, (sc. 🇬🇷, the district belonging to the city Abila), Abilene, the name of a region lying between Lebanon and Hermon towards Phoenicia, 18 miles distant from Damascus and 37 [acc. to the Itin. Anton. 38] from Heliopolis: Lk. iii. 1. Cf. 🇬🇷 [and B.D. s. v.].*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, indecl. prop. name, (father of the Jews [al. of glory]), Abiud, son of Zorobabel or Zerubbabel: Mt. i. 13.*

🇬🇷 [Rec.$st$ 🇬🇷.; cf. Tdf. Proleg. p. 106] (Joseph. 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷), (father of a multitude, cf. Gen. xvii. 5), Abraham, the renowned founder of the Jewish nation: Mt. i. 1 sq.; xxii. 32; Lk. xix. 9; Jn. viii. 33; Acts iii. 25; Heb. vii. 1 sqq., and elsewhere. He is extolled by the apostle Paul as a pattern of faith, Ro. iv. 1 sqq. 17 sqq.; Gal. iii. 6 (cf. Heb. xi. 8), on which account all believers in Christ have a claim to the title sons or posterity of Abraham, Gal. iii. 7, 29; cf. Ro. iv. 11.

🇬🇷, in classic Greek an adj., 🇬🇷, (fr. 🇬🇷 i. q. 🇬🇷), bottomless (so perhaps in Sap. x. 19), unbounded (🇬🇷, Aeschyl. Sept. (931) 950). In the Scriptures 🇬🇷 (Sept. for ) sc. 🇬🇷, the pit, the immeasurable depth, the abyss. Hence of ‘the deep’ sea: Gen. i. 2; vii. 11; Deut. viii. 7; Sir. i. 3; xvi. 18, etc.; of Orcus (a very deep gulf or chasm in the lowest parts of the earth: Ps. lxx. (lxxi.) 21 🇬🇷, Eur. Phoen. 1632 (1605) 🇬🇷, Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 20, 5 🇬🇷, ibid. 59, 3 🇬🇷, of God; [Act. Thom. 32 🇬🇷, of the dragon]), both as the common receptacle of the dead, Ro. x. 7, and especially as the abode of demons, Lk. viii. 31; Rev. ix. 1 sq. 11; xi. 7; xvii. 8; xx. 1, 3. Among prof. auth. used as a subst. only by Diog. Laërt. 4, (5,) 27 🇬🇷. Cf. Knapp, Scripta var. Arg. p. 554 sq.; [J. G. Müller, Philo’s Lehre von der Weltschöpfung, p. 173 sq.; B. D. Am. ed. s. v. Deep].*

🇬🇷 (on the breathing see WH. Intr. § 408], 🇬🇷, the name of a Christian prophet, Agabus: Acts xi. 28; xxi. 10. (Perhaps from ) to love [cf. B. D. s. v.].)*

🇬🇷; (fr. the unused ΕΡΓΩ—equiv. to 🇬🇷—and 🇬🇷); to be 🇬🇷, beneficent (towards the poor, the needy): 1 Tim. vi. 18 [A. V. do good]. Cf. 🇬🇷. Found besides only in eccl. writ., but in the sense to do well, act rightly.*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷; 1 aor. inf. 🇬🇷; (fr. 🇬🇷; 1. to do good, do something which profits others: Mk. iii. 4 [Tdf. 🇬🇷; Lk. vi. 9]; to show one’s self beneficent, Acts xiv. 17 Rec.; 🇬🇷, to do some one a favor, to benefit, Lk. vi. 33, 35, (equiv. to ), Zeph. i. 12; Num. x. 32; Tob. xii. 13, etc.). 2. to do well, do right: 1 Pet. ii. 15, 20 (opp. to 🇬🇷); iii. 6, 17; 3 Jn. 11. (Not found in secular authors, except in a few of the later in an astrological sense, to furnish a good omen.)*

🇬🇷 [WH 🇬🇷 (see 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷], 🇬🇷, a course of right action, well-doing: 🇬🇷, 1 Pet. iv. 19 i. q. 🇬🇷 acting uprightly (cf. xii. Patr. Jos. § 18]; if we read here with L Tr mrg. 🇬🇷 we must understand it of single acts of rectitude [cf. W. § 27, 3; B. § 123, 2]. (In eccl. writ. 🇬🇷 denotes beneficence.)*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, acting rightly, doing well: 1 Pet. ii. 14. [Sir. xlii. 14; Plut. de Is. et Osir. § 42.]*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, (akin to 🇬🇷 to wonder at, think highly of, 🇬🇷 admirable, as explained by Plato, Crat. p. 412 c. [al. al.; cf. Donaldson, New Crat. § 323]), in general denotes “” (Irmisch ad Hdian. 1, 4, p. 134), excelling in any respect, distinguished, good. It can be predicated of persons, things, conditions, qualities and affections of the soul, deeds, times and seasons. To this general signif. can be traced back all those senses which the word gathers fr. the connection in which it stands; 1. of a good constitution or nature: 🇬🇷, Lk. viii. 8; 🇬🇷, Mt. vii. 18, in sense equiv. to ‘fertile soil,’ ‘a fruitful tree,’ (Xen. oec. 16, 7 🇬🇷, an. 2, 4, 22 🇬🇷). In Lk. viii. 15 🇬🇷 corresponds to the fig. expression “good ground”, and denotes a soul inclined to goodness, and accordingly eager to learn saving truth and ready to bear the fruits (🇬🇷, Jas. iii. 17) of a Christian life. 2. useful, salutary: 🇬🇷 (joined to 🇬🇷) a gift which is truly a gift, salutary, Jas. i. 17; 🇬🇷, Mt. vii. 11; 🇬🇷 a commandment profitable to those who keep it, Ro. vii. 12, acc. to a Grk. scholium equiv. to 🇬🇷, hence the question in vs. 13: 🇬🇷 the ‘good part,’ which insures salvation to him who chooses it, Lk. x. 42; 🇬🇷 (differently in Ro. ii. 7, etc.) the saving work of God, i. e. substantially, the Christian life, due to divine efficiency, Phil. i. 6 [cf. the Comm. ad loc.]; 🇬🇷 for good, to advantage, Ro. viii. 28 (Sir. vii. 13; 🇬🇷, Sir. xxxix. 27; 🇬🇷, Theognis 162); good for, suited to something: 🇬🇷, Eph. iv. 29 [cf. W. 363 (340)] (Xen. mem. 4, 6, 10). 3. of the feeling awakened by what is good, pleasant, agreeable, joyful, happy: 🇬🇷 1 Pet. iii. 10 (Ps. xxxiii. (xxxiv.) 13; Sir. xiv. 14; 1 Macc. x. 55); 🇬🇷, 2 Th. ii. 16 (🇬🇷, Tit. ii. 13); 🇬🇷, a peaceful conscience, i. q. consciousness of rectitude, Acts xxiii. 1; 1 Tim. i. 5, 19; 1 Pet. iii. 16; reconciled to God, vs. 21. 4. excellent, distinguished: so 🇬🇷, Jn. i. 46 (47). 5. upright, honorable: Mt. xii. 34; xix. 16; Lk. vi. 45; Acts xi. 24; 1 Pet. iii. 11, etc.; 🇬🇷, Mt. v. 45; xxii. 10; 🇬🇷, Lk. xxiii. 50; 🇬🇷, Lk. viii. 15 (see 🇬🇷, b.); fulfilling the duty or service demanded, 🇬🇷, Mt. xxv. 21, 23; upright, free from guile, particularly from a desire to corrupt the people, Jn. vii. 12; pre-eminently of God, as consummately and essentially good, Mt. xix. 17 (Mk. x. 18; Lk. xviii. 19); 🇬🇷 in Mt. xii. 35; Lk. vi. 45