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Moment
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or lit. means "indivisible" (from a, negative, and temno, "to cut;" Eng., "atom"); hence it denotes "a moment," 1 Corinthians 15:52 .
"a prick, a point" (akin to stizo, "to prick"), is used metaphorically in Luke 4:5 , of a "moment," with chronos, "a moment (of time)."
Note: It is to be distinguished from stigma, "a mark" or "brand," Galatians 6:17 , which is, however, also connected with stizo.the equivalent of parauta, immediately (not in the NT), i.e., para auta, with ta pragmata understood, "at the same circumstances," is used adjectivally in 2 Corinthians 4:17 and translated "which is but for a moment;" the meaning is not, however, simply that of brief duration, but that which is present with us now or immediate (para, "beside, with"), in contrast to the future glory; the clause is, lit., "for the present lightness (i.e., 'light burden,' the adjective elaphron, "light,' being used as a noun) of (our) affliction." This meaning is confirmed by its use in the Sept. of Psalm 70:3 , "(let them be turned back) immediately," where the rendering could not be "for a moment."
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Moment'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/m/moment.html. 1940.
