Dictionaries :: Arms (Weapons), Armor, to Arm

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Arms (Weapons), Armor, to Arm:

originally any tool or implement for preparing a thing, became used in the plural for "weapons of warfare." Once in the NT it is used of actual weapons, Jhn 18:3; elsewhere, metaphorically, of

(a) the members of the body as instruments of unrighteousness and as instruments of righteousness, Rom 6:13;

(b) the "armor" of light, Rom 13:12; the "armor" of righteousness, 2Cr 6:7; the weapons of the Christian's warfare, 2Cr 10:4.

Arms (Weapons), Armor, to Arm:

(Eng., "panoply"), lit., "all armor, full armor," (pas, "all," hoplon, "a weapon"), is used

(a) of literal "armor," Luk 11:22;

(b) of the spiritual helps supplied by God for overcoming the temptations of the Devil, Eph 6:11, 13. Among the Greeks the panoplia was the complete equipment used by heavily armed infantry.

Arms (Weapons), Armor, to Arm:

"to arm oneself," is used in 1Pe 4:1, in an exhortation "to arm" ourselves with the same mind as that of Christ in regard to His sufferings.

Arms (Weapons), Armor, to Arm:

is an intensive form, "to furnish fully with arms," kata, "down," intensive, hoplon, "a weapon," Luk 11:21, lit., "a strong man fully armed." In the Sept., Jer 46:9.