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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

indicates numeral distinction of objects of similar character, and is used (a) absolutely, e.g., Matthew 20:3 (plural); (b) attached to a noun, e.g., Matthew 21:36; (c) with the article, e.g., Matthew 5:39; 1 Corinthians 14:29 (plural, RV); in Matthew 13:5; Luke 9:19; John 9:9 , e.g., RV, "others" (AV, "some"); in Matthew 25:20 , RV, "other" (AV, "beside them ... more"). See ANOTHER , MORE , B, Note (1), SOME.

indicates either numerical distinction, e.g., Luke 4:43; 5:7; or generic distinction, different in character, etc., e.g., Luke 9:29 , "(the fashion of His countenance) was altered," lit., "became other;" Luke 23:32 , "two others, (malefactors)," RV, where the plural serves to make the necessary distinction between them and Christ; Acts 2:4; 19:39 ("other matters"); 1 Corinthians 14:21 , AV, "other" (RV, "strange"); 2 Corinthians 11:4 (2nd and 3rd parts, RV, "different;" in the 1st clause, allos, "another"). For the distinction between this and No. 1, see under ANOTHER.

signifies "remaining, the rest." It is translated "other," or "others," e.g., in Matthew 25:11 : Mark 4:19; Luke 18:9; Acts 28:9; Romans 1:13; 1 Corinthians 9:5; Ephesians 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; 5:6; 1 Timothy 5:20 , e.g., the RV renders this word "the rest" (AV, "other" or "others"); in Ephesians 4:17 , some mss. have loipa, neuter plural, AV, "other (Gentiles);" see the RV See REMNANT , REST (the).

"belonging to another, not one's own," is translated "other men's" in 2 Corinthians 10:15; 1 Timothy 5:22; in Hebrews 9:25 , RV, "not his own" (AV, "of others"). See ALIEN , MAN'S , Note (1), STRANGE , STRANGER.

in Romans 1:12 , used in the dative case, is translated in the RV "(each of us by the) other's" (AV, "mutual"); the accusative is translated "other" in Philippians 2:3 . See MUTUAL and ONE ANOTHER.

"one," is sometimes translated "other" when expressing the second of a pair, e.g., Matthew 24:40 , AV (RV, "one"), See ONE , A (4).

signifying "that one," implying remoteness as compared with houtos, "this," is translated "the other," e.g., in Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42; 18:14 .

Notes: (1) In Acts 26:22 , AV, ouden ektos, lit., "nothing besides" is translated "none other things" (RV, "nothing but"). (2) The plural of the definite article is translated "others" in Acts 17:32; in Jude 1:23 , AV, "others" (RV, "some"). (3) In Luke 24:1 , the plural of tis, "a certain one," is found in some mss., and translated "certain others" in the AV.