Effect
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
signifies "to render void, deprive of force and authority" (from a, negative, and kuros, "might, authority;" kurios, "a lord," is from the same root), the opposite to kuroo, "to confirm" (see Confirm It is used of making "void" the Word of God, Matthew 15:6; Mark 7:13 (AV, "making of none effect"), and of the promise of God to Abraham as not being deprived of authority by the Law 430 years after, Galatians 3:17 , "disannul." Kuroo is used in ver. 15. See Disannul , Void.
"to reduce to inactivity, to render useless," is translated "to make of none effect," in Romans 3:3,31; 4:14; Galatians 3:17 (cp. akuroo, No. 1, in the same verse), and in the AV of Galatians 5:4 , RV, "ye are severed" (from Christ). For the meaning and use of the word see Abolish and Destroy
"to make empty, to empty," is translated "should be made of none effect" in 1—Corinthians 1:17 , AV (RV "made void"); it is used (a) of the Cross of Christ, there; (b) of Christ, in emptying Himself, Philippians 2:7; (c) of faith, Romans 4:14; (d) of the Apostle Paul's glorying in the Gospel ministry, 1—Corinthians 9:15; (e) of his glorying on behalf of the church at Corinth, 2—Corinthians 9:3 . See Empty , Vain , Void.
Romans 9:6 Acts 27:17Nought.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
(2): ( n.) Manifestation; expression; sign.
(3): ( n.) In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
(4): ( n.) Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
(5): ( n.) Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
(6): ( n.) Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; - with to.
(7): ( n.) The purport; the sum and substance.
(8): ( n.) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
(9): ( n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; - sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
(10): ( v. t.) To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
(11): ( v. t.) To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
King James Dictionary [3]
EFFECT', n. L. effectus, from efficio ex and facio, to make.
1. That which is produced by an agent or cause as the effect of luxury the effect of intemperance.
Poverty, disease and disgrace are the natural effects of dissipation.
2. Consequence event.
To say that a composition is imperfect,is in effect to say the author is a man.
3. Purpose general intent.
They spoke to her to that effect. 2 Chronicles 34
4. Consequence intended utility profit advantage.
Christ is become of no effect to you. Galatians 5
5. Force validity. The obligation is void and of no effect. 6. Completion perfection.
Not so worthily to be brought to heroical effect by fortune or necessity.
7. Reality not mere appearance fact.
No other in effect than what it seems.
8. In the plural, effects are goods movables personal estate. The people escaped from the town with their effects.
EFFECT', from the Noun. To produce, as a cause or agent to cause to be. The revolution in France effected a great change of property.
1. To bring to pass to achieve to accomplish as, to effect an object or purpose.
