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Lukas 1:63

Ia meminta batu tulis, lalu menuliskan kata-kata ini: "Namanya adalah Yohanes." Dan merekapun heran semuanya.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - John;   Miracles;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Table;   Temple;   Zacharias (Zechariah);   The Topic Concordance - John the Baptist;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Book;   Elisabeth;   John;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elizabeth;   John the baptist;   Zechariah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - John the Baptist;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Angel;   Union Hypostatical;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Juttah;   Zacharias;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   John;   Luke, Gospel of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Tablet;   Writing;   Zacharias;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Education;   Jesus Christ;   John the Baptist;   Name, Names;   Table, Tablet;   Vision;   Writing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Infancy;   John the Baptist;   Name (2);   Table, Tablet ;   Writing;   Writing (2);   Zacharias ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Names;   Table;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Theophilus;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisabeth;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Name;   Writing;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - John, the Baptize;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Name;   Table;   Tablet;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - John the Baptist;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ia meminta batu tulis, lalu menuliskan kata-kata ini: "Namanya adalah Yohanes." Dan merekapun heran semuanya.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka dipintanya suatu papan tulis, lalu dituliskannya demikian, "Yahyalah namanya." Maka mereka itu sekalian pun heranlah.

Contextual Overview

57 Elizabethes tyme came, that she shoulde be deliuered, and she brought foorth a sonne. 58 And her neyghbours, and her cosins hearde howe the Lorde hadde shewed great mercy vpo her, and they reioyced with her. 59 And it came to passe, that on the eyght day they came to circumcise the chylde, and called his name Zacharias, after the name of his father. 60 And his mother aunswered, and said: not so, but he shalbe called Iohn. 61 And they sayde vnto her: There is none in thy kinrede that is named with this name. 62 And they made signes to his father, howe he woulde haue hym called. 63 And he asked for wrytyng tables, and wrote, saying, his name is Iohn. And they marueyled all. 64 And his mouth was opened immediatly, and his tounge [loosed] & he spake, and praysed God. 65 And feare came on all them that dwelt nye vnto them: And all these sayinges were noysed abrode throughout all the hyll countrey of Iurie. 66 And all they that hearde them, layde them vp in their heartes, saying: What maner of chylde shall this be? And the hande of the Lorde was with hym.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a: Proverbs 3:3, Isaiah 30:8, Jeremiah 17:1, Habakkuk 2:2

His: Luke 1:13, Luke 1:60

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:11 - shalt Hosea 1:4 - Call Luke 1:20 - thou shalt

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he asked for a writing table,.... That is, he made signs for one, for as yet he could not speak. The Persic version renders it "ink", and the Ethiopic, a book, and the Vulgate Latin, a notebook. The word signifies "a little table", such as they used to write not only "upon", but "in"; and was sometimes of brass t, sometimes of wood, and sometimes of wax u, on which they wrote with a style or pen;

and wrote, saying, his name is John: not that he must be, or shall be, so called; but this is his name, and no other; being what the angel had given him before his conception, and Zacharias now confirms:

and they marvelled all; they were astonished, not so much at the new name brought into the family, as at the agreement between Elisabeth and Zacharias in this point, when the latter was both deaf and dumb; they knowing nothing, as yet, of the angel's message to him.

t Haryocration. Lex. p. 244. u Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 2. c. 30.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He asked - That is, by signs.

A writing table - The table denoted by this word was usually made of wood and covered with wax. The ancients used to write on such tables, as they had not the use of paper. The instrument used for writing was an iron pen or style, by which they marked on the wax which covered the table. Sometimes the writing-table was made entirely of lead.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 63. A writing table — πινακιδιον, a tablet, a diminutive of πιναξ, a table. "The boys in Barbary are taught to write upon a smooth thin board, slightly daubed over with whiting, which may be rubbed off or renewed at pleasure. Such probably (for the Jewish children use the same) was the little board, or writing table, as we render it Luke 1:63, that was called for by Zacharias." Shaw's Travels, p. 194. My old MS. considers the word as meaning the instrument of writing, rather than the tablet on which he wrote: and he aringe a poyntel, wroot seyinge, Joon is his name.

A thin board, made out of the pine tree, smeared over with wax, was used among the ancients; and to this the Anglo-Saxon version seems to refer, as it translates πινακιδιον, [Anglo-Saxon], a wax board or cloth.

An intelligent friend has suggested a different mode of reading the 62nd and 63rd verses: Luke 1:62. And they asked his father how he would have him called? Luke 1:63. And he made signs for a writing table and wrote, His name is John: "For," says my friend, "the 64th verse Luke 1:64 proves his mouth was not opened, neither his tongue loosed, till after the child was named; therefore he could not ask for the table; and it is more reasonable that he, being dumb, should make signs, than that those should who had the use of their tongues." But, howsoever ingenious this may be, neither the words of the Greek text, nor their construction, will bear this version.


 
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