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ἀλέκτωρ 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, a cock, (Lat. gallus gallinaceus): Mt. xxvi. 34, 74 sq.; Mk. xiv. 30, 68 [Lchm. br.], 72; Lk. xxii. 34, 60 sq.; Jn. xiii. 38; xviii. 27. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 229; [Rutherford, New Phryn. p. 307; W. 23; see also BB. DD. s. v.; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 221 sq.; esp. Egli, Zeitschr. f. wiss. Theol., 1879 p. 517 sqq.].*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, an Alexandrian, a native or a resident of Alexandria (a celebrated city of Egypt): Acts vi. 9; xviii. 24. [(Plut. Pomp. 49, 6; al.)]*

🇬🇷 [cf. Tδf.’s note on Acts xxvii. 6; G L Tr Cobet, al. 🇬🇷: Chandler § 397 note], 🇬🇷, Alexandrian: Acts xxvii. 6; xxviii. 11. [(Polyb. 34, 8, 7.)]*

🇬🇷 [i. e. defender of men], 🇬🇷, Alexander; &ensp; 1. a son of that Simon of Cyrene who carried the cross of Jesus: Mk. xv. 21. &emsp; 2. a certain man of the kindred of the high priest: Acts iv. 6. &emsp; 3. a certain Jew: Acts xix. 33. &emsp; 4. a certain coppersmith, an opponent of the apostle Paul: 1 Tim. i. 20; 2 Tim. iv. 14; [al. doubt whether both these passages relate to the same man; cf. e. g. Ellic. on the former].*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, (🇬🇷 to grind), wheaten flour, meal: Mt. xiii. 33; Lk. xiii. 21. Hesych. 🇬🇷. (Hdt., Xen., Plat., Joseph., al.)*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, (🇬🇷), (fr. Hom. down], verity, truth. &emsp; Ι. objectively; &emsp; 1. univ. what is true in any matter under consideration (opp. to what is feigned, fictitious, false): Jas. iii. 14; 🇬🇷. Jn. viii. 45 sq.; xvi. 7; Ro. ix. 1; 1 Co. xii. 6; 1 Tim. ii. 7: 🇬🇷, everything as it really was, Mk. v. 33, (so in classics); 🇬🇷 to testify according to the true state of the case, Jn. v. 33; in a broader sense, 🇬🇷 to speak always according to truth, Eph. iv. 25; [🇬🇷, as opp. to the vagaries of madness, Acts xxvi. 25]; 🇬🇷, was shown to be true by the event, 2 Co. vii. 14. 🇬🇷 in truth, truly, as the case is, according to fact: Mt. xxii. 16; Jn. iv. 23 sq. (as accords with the divine nature); 2 Co. vii. 14; Col. i. 6; 🇬🇷 &ensp; a. truly, in truth, according to truth: Mk. xii. 32; Lk. iv. 25, (Job ix. 2 Sept.; Philo, vit. Moys. i. § 1). &ensp; b. of a truth, in reality, in fact, certainly: Mk. xii. 14; Lk. xx. 21; [xxii. 59]; Acts iv. 27; x. 34, (Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 23, 5 and 47, 3); [cf. W. § 51, 2 f.; B. 336 (289)]; 🇬🇷 in accordance with fact, i. e. (acc. to the context) justly, without partiality: Ro. ii. 2; 🇬🇷, Phil. i. 18; 🇬🇷, 1 Jn. iii. 18 [Rec. om. 🇬🇷; so Eph. iv. 21 WH mrg.). &ensp; 2. In reference to religion, the word denotes what is true in things appertaining to God and the duties of man, (‘moral and religious truth’); and that &ensp; a. with the greatest latitude, in the sceptical question 🇬🇷, Jn. xviii. 38; &ensp; b. the true notions of God which are open to human reason without his supernatural intervention: Ro. i. 18; also 🇬🇷 the truth of which God is the author, Ro. i. 25, cf. 19, (🇬🇷, Evang. Nicod. c. 5, 2; accordingly it is not, as many interpret the phrase, the true nature of God [yet see Mey. ad loc.]); truth, the embodiment of which the Jews sought in the Mosaic law, Ro. ii. 20. &ensp; c. the truth, as taught in the Christian religion, respecting God and the execution of his purposes through Christ, and respecting the duties of man, opposed alike to the superstitions of the Gentiles and the inventions of the Jews, and to the corrupt opinions and precepts of false teachers even among Christians: 🇬🇷 the truth which is the gospel or which the gospel presents, Gal. ii. 5, 14, [cf. W. § 34, 3 a.]; and absol. 🇬🇷 and 🇬🇷: Jn. i. 14, 17; viii. 32, 40; [xvi. 13]; xvii. 19; 1 Jn. i. 8; ii. 4, 21; 2 Jn. 1-3; Gal. iii. 1 (Rec.); v. 7; 2 Co. iv. 2; xiii. 8; Eph. iv. 24; 2 Th. ii. 10, 12; 1 Tim. ii. 7 (🇬🇷 in faith and truth, of which I became a partaker through faith); iii. 15; iv. 3; vi. 5; 2 Tim. ii. 18; iii. 8; iv. 4; Tit i. 14; 2 Pet. i. 12; [3 Jn. 8, 12]; 🇬🇷, Col. i. 5; Eph. i. 13; 2 Tim. ii. 15; 🇬🇷, 2 Co. vi. 7; Jas. i. 18; 🇬🇷 2 Pet. ii. 2; 🇬🇷, 2 Th. ii. 13 [W. 186 (175)]; 🇬🇷 1 Pet. i. 22; 🇬🇷 Heb. x. 26; 1 Tim. ii. 4; 2 Tim. ii. 25; iii. 7; [Tit. i. 1]; 🇬🇷 the Spirit (of God) which is truth (1 Jn. v. 6) and imbues men with the knowledge of the truth, Jn. xiv. 17; [xvi. 13]; xv. 26; 1 Jn. iv. 6; 🇬🇷 I am he in whom the truth is summed up and impersonated, Jn. xiv. 6; 🇬🇷 [Rec.] (i. e. 🇬🇷) the truth which is in thee and proceeds from thee, Jn. xvii. 17; [🇬🇷 i. e. controls, actuates, me, 2 Co. xi. 10]; 🇬🇷 to be eager to know the truth, Jn. xviii. 37 (see 🇬🇷, Π. 7, and 🇬🇷, V. 3 d.); to proceed from the truth, 1 Jn. ii. 21; to be prompted and controlled by the truth, 1 Jn. iii. 19; 🇬🇷 to give testimony in favor of the truth in order to establish its authority among men, Jn. xviii. 37; 🇬🇷 to exemplify truth in the life, to express the form of truth in one’s habits of thought and modes of living, Jn. iii. 21; 1 Jn. i. 6, (Tob. xiii. 6; iv. 6; cf. Neh. ix. 33; 🇬🇷, Ps. cxviii. (cxix.) 30); so also 🇬🇷 2 Jn. 4; 3 Jn. 3 sq.; 🇬🇷 is just the opposite, Ro. ii. 8; so also 🇬🇷 Jas. v. 19. &emsp; II. subjectively; truth as a personal excellence; that candor of mind which is free from affectation, pretence, simulation, falsehood, deceit: Jn. viii. 44; sincerity of mind and integrity of character, or a mode of life in harmony with divine truth: 1 Co. v. 8; xiii. 6 (opp. to 🇬🇷); Eph. iv. 21 [see I. 1 b. above]; v. 9; [vi. 14]; 🇬🇷 the truth as it is discerned in thee, thy habit of thinking and acting in congruity with truth, 3 Jn. 3; 🇬🇷 which belongs to God, i. e. his holiness [but cf. 🇬🇷, 1 b. fin.], Ro. iii. 7; spec. veracity (of God in keeping his promises), Ro. xv. 8; 🇬🇷 sincerely and truthfully, 2 Jn. 1; 3 Jn. 1. The word is not found in Rev. ([nor in 1 Thess., Philem., Jude]). Cf. Hölemann, “Bibelstudien”, (Lpz. 1859) 1te Abth. p. 8 sqq.; [Wendt in Stud. u. Krit., 1883, p. 511 sqq.]*

🇬🇷; in prof. writ. ([Aeschyl.], Xen., Plat., Aristot., al.) to speak the truth; &ensp; a. to teach the truth: 🇬🇷