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Variously signifying, according to six Hebrew and as many Greek originals: (1) "to command" (Numbers 14:10; Matthew 1:24 the King James Version, προστάσσω , prostássō ); (2) "to prescribe" or "order" (John 2:2 ); (3) "to consecrate," and so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) (Zephaniah 1:7; compare 1 Samuel 16:5 ); (4) εἶπον , eı́pon , "to say" or "tell" (Matthew 16:12 ); (5) "to call" i.e. "invite" (καλέω , kaléō ), conspicuously used in this sense in Christ's parables of the Marriage Feast (Matthew 22:3-9 ) and of the Great Supper (Lk 14:7-24); (6) "to take leave of," ἀποτάσσω , appotássō (Luke 9:61 ).

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Bid'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​isb/​b/bid.html. 1915.
 
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