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Prosper
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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"to help on one's way" (eu, "well," hodos, "a way or journey"), is used in the Passive Voice signifying "to have a prosperous journey," Romans 1:10; metaphorically, "to prosper, be prospered," 1 Corinthians 16:2 , RV, "(as) he may prosper," AV, "(as God) hath prospered (him)," lit., "in whatever he may be prospered," i.e., in material things; the continuous tense suggests the successive circumstances of varying prosperity as week follows week; in 3 John 1:2 , of the "prosperity" of physical and spiritual health.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Prosper'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/p/prosper.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Prosper'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/p/prosper.html. 1940.
