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Disorderly
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or signifies "not keeping order" (a, negative, tasso, "to put in order, arrange"); it was especially a military term, denoting "not keeping rank, insubordinate;" it is used in 1 Thessalonians 5:14 , describing certain church members who manifested an insubordinate spirit, whether by excitability or officiousness or idleness. See UNRULY.
signifies "disorderly, with slackness" (like soldiers not keeping rank), 2 Thessalonians 3:6; in ver. 11 it is said of those in the church who refused to work, and became busy-bodies (cp. 1 Timothy 5:13 ).
signifies "to be out of rank, out of one's place, undisciplined, to behave disorderly:" in the military sense, "to break rank;" negatively in 2 Thessalonians 3:7 , of the example set by the Apostle and his fellow missionaries, in working for their bread while they were at Thessalonica so as not to burden the saints. See BEHAVE.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Disorderly'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/d/disorderly.html. 1940.
