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Easton's Bible Dictionary

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in the expression "by myself" (1Cr 4:4), means, as rendered in the Revised Version, "against myself."

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

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In the sense of "against" which survives only in dialectal English (compare Wright, Dialect Dict., I, 470, for examples) is the King James Version rendering of the dative emauto of 1Co 4:4 (the American Standard Revised Version renders this "against"). In classical Greek the same idiom sunoida with dative =" be conscious" or "be cognizant of" a thing.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

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see †, p. 9

W. E. Vine provided the following footnote on page 9 of his expository dictionary:
In the following pages † indicates that the word referred to (preposition, conjunction, or particle) is not dealt with in this volume.

Note: The phrase "by and by" in the AV is in several places misleading. The three words exautes, Mar 6:25, euthus, Mat 13:21, and eutheos, Luk 17:7; 21:9, mean "straightway," "immediately." See under these words.