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the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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is used either (a) of locality, Acts 19:26 , or (b) of degree, Acts 13:44; Hebrews 9:22 .
"to be about to do anything, or to delay," is used in connection with a following verb in the sense of "almost," in Acts 21:27 , lit., "And when the seven days were about to be completed." In Acts 26:28 the AV, "Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian" obscures the sense; the RV rightly has "with but little persuasion;" lit., "in a little." See ABOUT , B.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Almost'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/a/almost.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Almost'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/a/almost.html. 1940.
