Motion
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A puppet show or puppet.
(2): ( n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
(3): ( n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.
(4): ( n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
(5): ( v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
(6): ( v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
(7): ( v. t.) To propose; to move.
(8): ( n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; - opposed to rest.
(9): ( n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
(10): ( n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
(11): ( n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
(12): ( n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
(13): ( v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
Romans 7:5
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
mō´shun : In 2 Esd 6:14, the King James Version "motion" represents the Latin commotio , "commotion," "disturbance" (the Revised Version (British and American) has revised entirely here). In Romans 7:5 , "the motions of sins, which were by the law," "motion" is used in the sense of "impulse," and "impulses" would probably give the best translation. But the Greek noun (παθήματα , pathḗmata ) is hard to translate exactly, and the Revised Version (British and American) has preferred "passions," as in Galatians 5:24 . Sanday (International Critical Commentary) paraphrases "the impressions of sense, suggestive of sin, stimulated into perverse activity by their legal prohibition." See Passion . "Motion" is found also in Wisd 5:11 (the King James Version and the Revised Version margin) and 7:24 (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)) in a modern sense.
