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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or primarily "a thing shown, a specimen" (akin to deiknumi, "to show"), denotes an "example" given as a warning, Jude 1:7 . Note: The corresponding word in 2 Peter 2:6 is No. 2.
see ENSAMPLE , No. 3.
see ENSAMPLE , No. 1.
lit., "an under-writing" (from hupographo, "to write under, to trace letters" for copying by scholars); hence, "a writing-copy, an example," 1 Peter 2:21 , said of what Christ left for believers, by His sufferings (not expiatory, but exemplary), that they might "follow His steps."
"to make a show of, to expose" (akin to A, No. 1), is translated "to make a public example," in Matthew 1:19 (some mss. have the strengthened form paradeigmatizo here; "put ... to an open shame," Hebrews 6:6 ); in Colossians 2:15 , "made a show of."
primarily, "to show secretly" (hupo, "under," deiknumi, "to show"), "to show by tracing out" (akin to A, No. 2); hence, "to teach, to show by example," Acts 20:35 , RV, "I gave you an example," for AV, "I showed you." Elsewhere, "to warn," Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:7; 12:5 , RV, for AV, "forewarn;" "to show," Luke 6:47; Acts 9:16 . See FOREWARN , SHOW , WARN.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Example'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/e/example.html. 1940.
