Meaning
Reading red'-ing (miqra'; anagnosis): As a noun occurs once in the Old Testament (Ne 3:8) and 3 times in the New Testament (Act 13:15, 2Co 3:14, 1Ti 4:13), each time with reference to the public reading of the Divine Law. The verb "to read" (qara'; anaginosko) occurs frequently both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament: (1) often in the sense of reading aloud to others, especially of the public reading of God's Law or of prophecy, as by Moses (Ex 24:7), Ezra (Neh 8:3, Neh 8:18), Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth (Lu 4:16), of the regular reading of the Law and the Prophets in the synagogues (Act 13:27, Act 15:21), and of the reading of apostolic epistles in the Christian church (Col 4:16, 1Th 5:27); (2) also in the sense of reading to one's self, whether the divine word in Law or prophecy (Deu 17:19, Act 8:28-30, etc.), or such things as private letters (2Ki 5:7, 2Ki 19:14, Act 23:34, etc.).
D. Miall Edwards
