Estate
King James Dictionary [1]
ESTA'TE,n. L. status, from sto, to stand. The roots stb, std and stg, have nearly the same signification, to set, to fix. It is probable that the L. sto is contracted from stad, as it forms steti.
1. In a general sense, fixedness a fixed condition now generally written and pronounced state.
She cast us headlong from our high estate.
2. Condition or circumstances of any person or thing, whether high or low. Luke 1 . 3. Rank quality.
Who hath not heard of the greatness of your estate?
4. In law, the interest, or quantity of interest, a man has in lands, tenements, or other effects. Estates are real or personal. Real estate consists in lands or freeholds, which descent to heirs personal estate consists in chattels or movables, which go to executors and administrators. There are also estates for life, for years, at will, &c. 5. Fortune possessions property in general. He is a man of a great estate. He left his estate unincumbered. 6. The general business or interest of government hence, a political body a commonwealth a republic. But in this sense, we now use State.
Estates, in the plural, dominions possessions of a prince.
1. Orders or classes of men in society or government. Herod made a supper for his chief estates. Mark 6 .
In Great Britain, the estates of the realm are the king, lords and commons or rather the lords and commons.
ESTA'TE, To settle as a fortune. Little used.
1. To establish. Little used.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
(2): ( n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.
(3): ( n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
(4): ( n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
(5): ( v. t.) To establish.
(6): ( v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune.
(7): ( v. t.) To endow with an estate.
(8): ( n.) A person of high rank.
(9): ( n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
(10): ( n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
Estate . ‘State’ and ‘estate’ occur in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] almost an equal number of times, and with the same meaning. Cf. Colossians 4:7 ‘All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you,’ with the next verse, ‘that he might know your estate.’ In Acts 22:5 ‘all the estate of the elders’ (Gr. ‘all the presbytery’) means all the members of the Sanhedrin. The pl. occurs in the Pref. to AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , and in Ezekiel 36:11 ‘I will settle you after your old estates,’ i.e . according to your former position in life, The heading of Psalms 37:1-40 is ‘David persuadeth to patience and confidence in God, by the different estate of the godly and the wicked.’
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
es - tāt ´: While the King James Version uses both "estate" and "state" with the meaning of "condition," the American Standard Revised Version distinguishes, using "state" for the idea of condition, "estate" for position; and replaces "estate" of the King James Version by more definite expressions in many cases. Compare Colossians 4:7 the King James Version, "All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you," but James 4:8 , the King James Version "might know your estate" the Revised Version (British and American) "may know our state"; Luke 1:48 the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "the low estate" (of the Lord's hand-maiden); Mark 6:21 , the King James Version "chief estates" the Revised Version (British and American) "chief men"; Daniel 11:7 , Daniel 11:20 , Daniel 11:21 , Daniel 11:38 , the King James Version "his estate," the Revised Version (British and American) "his place," both with margin "his office."
