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Substance
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or derived from a present participial form of eimi, "to be," denotes "substance, property," Luke 15:12,13 , RV, "substance," AV, "goods" and "substance."
the neuter plural of the present participle of huparcho, "to be in existence," is used as a noun with the article, signifying one's "goods," and translated "substance" in Luke 8:3 . See GOODS , POSSESS , A, No. 3.
existence (akin to No. 2), possession: see POSSESS , B, No. 4.
for which see CONFIDENCE , A No. 2, is translated "substance" (a) in Hebrews 1:3 , of Christ as "the very image" of God's "substance;" here the word has the meaning of the real nature of that to which reference is made in contrast to the outward manifestation (see the preceding clause); it speaks of the Divine essence of God existent and expressed in the revelation of His Son. The AV, "person" is an anachronism; the word was not so rendered till the 4th cent. Most of the earlier Eng. versions have "substance;" (b) in Hebrews 11:1 it has the meaning of "confidence, assurance" (RV), marg., "the giving substance to," AV, "substance," something that could not equally be expressed by elpis, "hope."
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Substance'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/s/substance.html. 1940.
