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Strong's #4382 - προσωποληψία
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- respect of persons
- partiality
- the fault of one who when called on to give judgment has respect of the outward circumstances of man and not to their intrinsic merits, and so prefers, as the more worthy, one who is rich, high born, or powerful, to another who does not have these qualities
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προσωπο-ληψία, ἡ,
respect of persons, Ep.Romans 2:11, Ep.Colossians 3:25, Ep.James 2:1 (pl.).
προσωποληψία (L T Tr WH προσωπολημψία (see Mu)), προσωποληψιας, ἡ (a Hellenistic formation; (see προσωπολήπτης)), respect of persons (Vulg. personarum acceptio), partiality, the fault of one who when called on to requite or to give judgment has respect to the outward circumstances of men and not to their intrinsic merits, and so prefers, as the more worthy, one who is rich, high-born, or powerful, to another who is destitute of such gifts: Romans 2:11; Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 3:25; plural (which relates to the various occasions and instances in which this fault shows itself (cf. Winers Grammar, 176 (166); Buttmann, § 123, 2, 2)), James 2:1. (Ecclesiastical writings.)
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*† προσωπολημψία
(Rec. -ληψία ), -ας , ἡ
(< προσωπολήμπτης ),
respect of persons: Romans 2:11, Ephesians 6:9, Colossians 3:25, James 2:1 (v. Mayor, in l).†
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For ῥέω, ";flow,"; which occurs in the NT only in John 7:38 (for fut. act. cf. Proleg, p. 154), see the traveller’s account of his visit to the source of the Nile, P Lond 854.8 (i/ii A.D.) (= III. p. 206, Deissmann LAE p. 162) ὅθεν τ [υγ ]χάνει Νεῖλος ῥέων, ";whence the Nile flows out"; : cf. P Lond 121.436 (iii/A.D.) (= I. p. 98) παρὰ ῥέον βαλανείου and Preisigke 401.10 (A.D. 10–11) ποταμ [ὸν ] . . ῥέοντα δι᾽ ὅλης τῆς πόλεως.
For the subst. ῥεῦμα, cf. P Petr II. 37 2a verso.8 (iii/B.C.) ἐνκλείναντος τ [οῦ ] ῥεύματος εἰς τὸ πρὸς βορρᾶν μέρος, and P Lond 46.263 (iv/A.D.) (= I. p. 73) ἐν τῷ ῥεύματι τοῦ ποταμοῦ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν.
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