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Mainsail

Mainsail * For MAINSAIL see FORSAIL

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Meaning

Mainsail * For MAINSAIL see FORSAIL

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Maintain

Maintain "to preside, rule," also means "to maintain," Tit 3:8, Tit 3:14, "to maintain (good works)," RV marg., "profess honest occupations" (AV, marg. ... "trades"). The usage of the phrase kala erga (good wo...

I is the nominative case of the first personal pronoun. The pronoun, "I," however, generally forms a part of the verb itself in Greek; thus luo itself means "I loose," the pronoun being incorporated in the ver...

In * For IN see +, p. 9

Mad, Madness

Mad, Madness "to rage, be mad," is translated by the verb "to be mad" in Joh 10:20, Act 12:15, Act 1:26-25, 1Co 14:23; see BESIDE ONESELF, No. 2. an intensive form of No. 1, prefixed by en, "in," implying "fie...

Made (be)

Made (be) "to become," is sometimes translated by the Passive Voice of the verb to make, e.g., Mat 9:16, Joh 1:3 (three times), Joh 1:10, Joh 8:33, Rom 11:9, 1Co 1:30, 1Co 3:13, 1Co 4:9, 1Co 4:13, Eph 2:13, Ep...

Magistrate

Magistrate besides its application to "the captain of the Temple" (see CAPTAIN), denotes "a magistrate or governor," Act 16:20, Act 16:22, Act 1:16-36, Act 16:38. These were, in Latin terminology, the duumviri...

Magnificence

Magnificence denotes "splendor, magnificence" (from megaleios, "magnificent," might," Act 2:11, megas, "great"), translated "magnificence" in Act 19:27, of the splendor of the goddess Diana. In Luk 9:43, RV (A...

Magnify

Magnify "to make great" (megas), is translated "to magnify" in Luk 1:46; in Luk 1:58, RV, "had magnified (His mercy)," AV, "had shewed great (mercy);" Act 5:13, Act 10:46, Act 19:17, 2Co 10:15, RV (AV, "we sha...

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