Dictionaries :: Belong

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Belong:

Note: This word represents

(a) a phrase consisting of eimi, "to be," with or without a preposition and a noun, and usually best rendered, as in the RV, by the verb "to be," Mar 9:41, lit., "ye are of Christ;" Luk 23:7; Hbr 5:14; cp. Rom 12:19, "belongeth unto Me," RV;

(b) a phrase consisting of the neuter plural of the definite article, either with the preposition pros, "unto," as in Luk 19:42, where the phrase "the things which belong unto peace" (RV) is, lit., "the (things) unto peace," or with the genitive case of the noun, as in 1Cr 7:32, AV, "the things that belong to the Lord," RV, suitably, "the things of the Lord;"

(c) a distinct verb, e.g., metecho, "to partake of, share in," Hbr 7:13 RV, "belongeth to (another tribe)," AV, "pertaineth to."