the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Meet, Meet with, Met
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or "to go to meet, to meet," (apo, "from," antao, "to meet with, come face to face with"), is used in Mark 14:13; Luke 17:12 . Some mss. have this verb for No. 3 in Matthew 28:9; Mark 5:2; Luke 14:31; John 4:51; Acts 16:16 .
"to meet with," lit., "to meet together with" (sun, "with," and antao, see No. 1), is used in Luke 9:37 (in ver. 18, in some mss.); 22:10; Acts 10:25; Hebrews 7:1,10; metaphorically in Acts 20:22 ("shall befall"). See BEFALL.
"to go to meet, to meet," has the same meaning as No 1, and is used in Matthew 8:28; Luke 8:27; John 11:20,30 , and, in the most authentic mss., in Matthew 28:29; Mark 5:2; Luke 14:31 (of meeting in battle); John 4:51; 12:18 and Acts 16:16 (see No. 1).
"to happen to be near or present, to chance to be by" (para, "beside, near," tunchano, "to happen"), occurs in Acts 17:17 , "met with (him)."
"to confer, to fall in with, meet with," is translated "met" in Acts 20:14 , RV (AV, "met with"), of the Apostle Paul's "meeting" his companions at Assos. See CONFER , No. 3.
"a going to meet" (akin to A, No. 3), preceded by the preposition eis, "unto a meeting," translated "to meet," is found in John 12:13 , and in the most authentic mss., in Matthew 8:34 (see No. 3); 25:1 (see No. 2).
"a meeting" (akin to A, No. 1), occurs in Matthew 25:6 (in some mss. in ver. 1, and in 27:32, in some mss.); Acts 28:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:17 . It is used in the papyri of a newly arriving magistrate. "It seems that the special idea of the word was the official welcome of a newly arrived dignitary" (Moulton, Greek Test. Gram. Vol. I, p. 14).
"a coming to meet with" (akin to A, No. 2), is found in some mss. in Matthew 8:34 , of the coming out of all the people of a city to meet the Lord (see No. 1).
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Meet, Meet with, Met'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/m/meet-meet-with-met.html. 1940.
