Supply
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
primarily, among the Greeks signified "to lead a stage chorus or dance" (choros, and hegeomai, "to lead"), then, "to defray the expenses of a chorus;" hence, later, metaphorically, "to supply," 2—Corinthians 9:10 (2nd part; see also No. 2), RV, "supply" (AV "minister"); 1—Peter 4:11 , RV, "supplieth" (AV, "givetg"). See Give , Note (4), Minister , B, Note (1).
"to supply fully, abundantly" (a strengthen form of No. 1), is rendered "to supply" in the RV of 2—Corinthians 9:10 (1st part) and Galatians 3:5 (for AV, "to minister"), where the present continuous tense speaks of the work of the Holy Spirit in all His ministrations to believers individually and collectively; in Colossians 2:19 , RV, "being supplied" (AV, "having nourishment ministered"), of the work of Christ as the Head of the church His body; in 2—Peter 1:5 , "supply" (AV, "add"); in 2—Peter 1:11 , "shall be ... supplied" (AV, "shall be ministered"), of the reward hereafter which those are to receive, in regard to positions in the kingdom of God, for their fulfillment here of the condition mentioned.
2—Corinthians 9:10
"to fill up, fulfil," is rendered "to supply" in 1—Corinthians 16:17; Philippians 2:30 . See Fill , Fulfill , Occupy.
"to fill up by adding to, to supply fully" (pros, "to," and No. 3), is translated "supplieth" in 2—Corinthians 9:12 , AV (RV, "filleth up the measure of"); in 2—Corinthians 11:9 , RV and AV, "supplied."
Philippians 4:19
"a full supply," occurs in Ephesians 4:16 , "supplieth," lit., "by the supply of every joint," metaphorically of the members of the church, the body of which Christ is the Head, and Philippians 1:19 , "the supply (of the Spirit of Jesus Christ)," i.e., "the bountiful supply;" here "of the Spirit" may be taken either in the subjective sense, the Giver, or the objective, the Gift.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
(2): ( n.) A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
(3): ( n.) That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
(4): ( n.) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
(5): ( v. t.) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.
(6): ( v. t.) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
(7): ( v. t.) To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; - often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.
(8): ( n.) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
(9): ( a.) Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
(10): ( n.) The act of supplying; supplial.
(11): ( v. t.) To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
King James Dictionary [3]
Supply', L suppleo sub and pleo, disused, to fill.
1. To fill up, as any deficiency happens to furnish what is wanted to afford or furnish a sufficiency as, to supply the poor with bread and clothing to supply the daily wants of nature to supply the navy with masts and spars to supply the treasury with money. The city is well supplied with water.
I wanted nothing fortune could supply.
2. To serve instead of.
Burning ships the banish'd sun supply.
3. To give to bring or furnish.
Nearer care supplies
Signs to my breast, and sorrow to my eyes.
4. To fill vacant room.
The sun was set, and Vesper to supply
His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.
5. To fill as, to supply a vacancy. 6. In general, to furnish to give or afford what is wanted.
Modern infidelity supplies no such motives.
SUPPLY', n. Sufficiency for wants given or furnished. The poor have a daily supply of food the army has ample supplies of provisions and munitions of war. Customs, taxes and excise constitute the supplies of revenue.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
su - plı̄ ´: Philippians 4:19 for πληρόω , plēróō ; 1 Corinthians 16:17; Philippians 2:30 for ἀναπληρόω , anaplēróō ; 2 Corinthians 9:12 (the King James Version); 2 Corinthians 11:9 for προσαναπληρόω , prosanaplēróō . All three verbs mean "to fill," the 3rd containing the additional connotation "fill up to a certain point." Ephesians 4:16; Philippians 1:19 for the noun ἐπιχορηγία , epichorēgı́a , literally, "an additional supply." But no special force of "additional" seems to be contained in the passages. In 2 Corinthians 9:10; Galatians 3:5; Colossians 2:9; 2 Peter 1:5 , 2 Peter 1:11 , we have ἐπιχορηγέω , epichorēgéō , "to furnish besides," i.e. fully supply; in 2 Corinthians 9:10; 1 Peter 4:11 the simple chorēgéō , "to furnish,"
