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ἀρετή diated his daughter; and with such success as completely to destroy his army (Joseph. antt. 18, 5). In consequence of this, Vitellius, governor of Syria, being ordered by Tiberius to march an army against Aretas, prepared for the war. But Tiberius meantime having died [March 16, 37], he recalled his troops from the march, dismissed them to their winter quarters, and departed to Rome. After his departure Aretas held sway over the region of Damascus (how acquired we do not know), and placed an ethnarch over the city: 2 Co. xi. 32. Cf. Win. RWB. s. v.; Wieseler in Herzog i. p. 488 sq.; Keim in Schenkel i. p. 238 sq.; Schürer in Riehm p. 83 sq.; [B. D. Am. ed. s. v. Aretas; Meyer on Acts, Εinl. § 4 (cf. ibid. ed. Wendt)].*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, [see 🇬🇷 init.], a word of very wide signification in Grk. writ.; any excellence of a person (in body or mind) or of a thing, an eminent endowment, property or quality. Used of the human mind and in an ethical sense, it denotes &emsp; 1. a virtuous course of thought, feeling and action; virtue, moral goodness, (Sap. iv. 1; v. 13; often in 4 Macc. and in Grk. writ.): 2 Pet. i. 5 [al. take it here specifically, viz. moral  ; cf. next head]. &emsp; 2. any particular moral excellence, as modesty, purity; hence (plur. 🇬🇷, Sap. viii. 7; often in 4 Macc. and in the Grk. philosophers) 🇬🇷, Phil. iv. 8. Used of, it denotes &ensp; a. his power: 2 Pet. i. 3. &ensp; b. in the plur. his excellences, perfections, ‘which shine forth in our gratuitous calling and in the whole work of our salvation’ (Jn. Gerhard): 1 Pet. ii. 9. (In Sept. for splendor, glory, Hab. iii. 3, of God; Zech. vi. 13, of the Messiah; in plur. for  praises, of God, Is. xliii. 21; xiii. 12; lxiii. 7.)*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, nom. not in use; the other cases are by syncope 🇬🇷 (for 🇬🇷), 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷; plur. 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, a sheep, a lamb: Lk. x. 3. (Gen. xxx. 32; Ex. xxiii. 19, etc.; in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down.)*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷: 1 aor. 🇬🇷; pf. pass. 🇬🇷; (🇬🇷); [fr. Hom. down]; to number: Mt. x. 30; Lk. xii. 7; Rev. vii. 9. [.: 🇬🇷.]*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, [fr. Hom. down], a number; &ensp; a. a fixed and definite number: 🇬🇷, in number, Jn. vi. 10, (2 Macc. viii. 16; 3 Macc. v. 2, and often in Grk. writ.; W. 230 (216); [B. 153 (134)]); 🇬🇷, Lk. xxii. 3; 🇬🇷, a number whose letters indicate a certain man, Rev. xiii. 18. &ensp; b. an indefinite number, i. q. a multitude: Acts vi. 7; xi. 21; Rev. xx. 8.

🇬🇷 [WH 🇬🇷, see their Intr. § 408], 🇬🇷, Arimathæa, Hebr. (a height), the name of several cities of Palestine; cf. Gesenius, Thesaur. iii. p. 1275. The one mentioned in Mt. xxvii. 57; Mk. xv. 43; Lk. xxiii. 51; Jn. xix. 38 appears to have been the same as that which was the birthplace and residence of Samuel, in Mount Ephraim: 1 S. i. 1, 19, etc. Sept. 🇬🇷, and without the art. 🇬🇷, and acc. to another reading 🇬🇷, 1 Macc. xi. 34; 🇬🇷 in Joseph. antt. 13, 4, 9. Cf. Grimm on 1 Macc. xi. 34; Keim, Jesus von Naz. iii. 514; [B. D. Am. ed.].*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, [lit. best-ruling], Aristarchus, a certain Christian of Thessalonica, a ‘fellow-captive’ with Paul [cf. B. D. Am. ed.; Bp. Lghtft. and Mey. on Col. as below]: Acts xix. 29; xx. 4; xxvii. 2; Col. iv. 10; Philem. 24.*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷: 1 aor. 🇬🇷; (🇬🇷, q. v.); &ensp; a. to breakfast: Jn. xxi. 12, 15; (Xen. Cyr. 6, 4, 1; and often in Attic). &ensp; b. by later usage to dine: 🇬🇷, Lk. xi. 37; (Gen. xliii. 24; Ael. v. h. 9, 19).*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, left: Mt. vi. 3; Lk. xxiii. 33; [Mk. x. 37 T Tr WH, on the plur. cf. W. § 27, 3]; 🇬🇷 i. e. carried in the left hand, defensive weapons, 2 Co. vi. 7. [From Hom. down.]*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, [lit. best-counselling], Aristobulus, a certain Christian (cf. B. D. Am. ed. s. v. and Bp. Lghtft. on Phil. p. 174 sq.]: Ro. xvi. 10.*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, [fr. Hom. down]; &ensp; a. the first food, taken early in the morning before work, breakfast; dinner was called 🇬🇷. But the later Greeks called breakfast 🇬🇷, and dinner 🇬🇷 i. e. 🇬🇷, Athen. 1, 9, 10 p. 11 b.; and so in the N. T. Hence &ensp; b. dinner: Lk. xiv. 12 (🇬🇷, to which others are invited); Lk. xi. 38; Mt. xxii. 4 (🇬🇷). [B. D. s. v. Meals; Becker's Charicles, sc. vi. excurs. i. (Eng. trans. p. 312 sq.)

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, (🇬🇷), sufficient: Mt. vi. 34 (where the meaning is, ‘Let the present day’s trouble suffice for a man, and let him not rashly increase it by anticipating the cares of days to come’; [on the neut. cf. W. § 58, 5; B. 127 (111)]); 🇬🇷 [A. V. it is enough for the disciple i. e.] let him be content etc., fol. by 🇬🇷, Mt. x. 25; foll. by an inf., 1 Pet. iv. 3. (Chrysipp. ap. Athen. 3, 79 p. 113 b.)*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷; 1 aor. 🇬🇷; [Pass., pres. 🇬🇷]; 1 fut. 🇬🇷; to be possessed of unfailing strength; to be strong, to suffice, to be enough (as against any danger; hence to defend, ward off, in Hom.; [al. make this the radical meaning, cf. Lat arceo; Curtius § 7]): with dat. of pers. Mt. xxv. 9; Jn. vi. 7; 🇬🇷 my grace is sufficient for thee, sc. to enable thee to bear the evil manfully; there is, therefore, no reason why thou shouldst ask for its removal, 2 Co. xii. 9; impersonally, 🇬🇷 ’tis enough for us, we are content, Jn. xiv. 8. Pass. (as in Grk. writ.) to be satisfied, contented: 🇬🇷, with a thing, Lk. iii. 14; Heb. xiii. 5; 1 Tim. vi. 8; (2 Macc. v. 15); 🇬🇷, 3 Jn. 10. [.: 🇬🇷.]*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, or [so G L T Tr WH] 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, a bear: Rev. xiii. 2. [From Hom. down.]*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, (fr. 🇬🇷 to join, fit; a team), a chariot: Acts viii. 28 sq. 38; of war-chariots (i. e. armed with scythes) we read 🇬🇷 chariots drawn by many horses, Rev. ix. 9, (Joel ii. 5. In Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down).*

🇬🇷 [Grsb. 🇬🇷, WH 🇬🇷, see their Intr. § 408; Tdf. Proleg. p. 106] or (so Rec.) 🇬🇷, Har-Magedon or Armageddon, indecl. prop. name of an imaginary place: Rev. xvi. 16. Many, following Beza and Glassius, suppose that the name is compounded of