Dictionaries :: Bid

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Bid:

Variously signifying, according to six Hebrew and as many Greek originals:

(1) "to command" (Nu 14:10; Mt 1:24 the King James Version, prostasso);

(2) "to prescribe" or "order" (Joh 2:2);

(3) "to consecrate," and so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) (Ze 1:7; compare 1Sa 16:5);

(4) eipon, "to say" or "tell" (Mt 16:12);

(5) "to call" i.e. "invite" (kaleo), conspicuously used in this sense in Christ's parables of the Marriage Feast (Mt 22:3- 9) and of the Great Supper (Lu 14:7-24);

(6) "to take leave of," appotasso (Lu 9:61).