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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79424" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79424" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <div> '''1: '''''Ὑποβάλλω''''' ''' (Strong'S #5260 — Verb — hupoballo — hoop-ob-al'-lo ) </div> <p> "to throw or put under, to subject," denoted "to suggest, whisper, prompt;" hence, "to instigate," translated "suborned" in Acts 6:11 . To "suborn" in the legal sense is to procure a person who will take a false oath. The idea of making suggestions is probably present in this use of the word. </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_180600" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_180600" /> == | ||
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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to throw or put under, to subject," denoted "to suggest, whisper, prompt;" hence, "to instigate," translated "suborned" in Acts 6:11 . To "suborn" in the legal sense is to procure a person who will take a false oath. The idea of making suggestions is probably present in this use of the word.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
(2): ( v. t.) To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
sub - ôrn ´ ( ὑποβάλλω , hupobállō ( Acts 6:11; only here in the New Testament)): The word means to introduce by collusion, to put one person in the place of another, to employ anyone in a secret manner and instruct such a one to act for and as though he were another person.
