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Creep, Creeping, Crept
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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properly, "to envelop in" (en, "in," duno, "to enter"), "to put on," as of a garment, has the secondary and intransitive significance of "creeping into, insinuating oneself into," and is found with this meaning in 2 Timothy 3:6 . Cp. enduo, "to clothe."
"to enter in by the side" (para, "beside," eis, "in"), to insinuate oneself into, by stealth, to creep in stealthily, is used in Jude 1:4 .
signifies a "creeping thing" (herpo, "to creep;" Eng., "serpent" is from the same root), James 3:7 (RV, "creeping things," for AV, "serpents," which form only one of this genus); it is set in contrast to quadrupeds and birds, Acts 10:12; 11:6; Romans 1:23 . See SERPENT.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Creep, Creeping, Crept'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​c/creep-creeping-crept.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Creep, Creeping, Crept'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​c/creep-creeping-crept.html. 1940.