Dictionaries :: Ordain

King James Dictionary

Ordain: To Form; Appoint; Settle; Place.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ORDAINED; what is man, that thou are mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psalm 8:3-4)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Ordain:

to put: see APPOINT, No. 3.

Ordain:

from kata, "down," or "over against," and histemi, "to cause to stand, to set," is translated "to ordain" in the AV of Tts 1:5; Hbr 5:1; 8:3.
See APPOINT, No. 2.

Ordain:

is translated "to ordain," in Act 13:48; Rom 13:1.
See APPOINT, No. 5

Ordain:

is translated "to ordain" in 1Cr 7:17; 9:14; Gal 3:19, the last in the sense of "administered." Cp. diatage, under DISPOSITION.
See APPOINT, No. 6.

Ordain:

is twice used of Christ as Divinely "ordained" to be the Judge of men, Act 10:42; 17:31.
See DETERMINE, No. 2.

Ordain:

"to divide, separate, decide, judge," is translated "ordained" in Act 16:4, of the decrees by the Apostles and elders in Jerusalem.
See JUDGE.

Notes:

(1) In 1Cr 2:7, AV, proorizo, "to foreordain" (see RV) is translated "ordained."
See DETERMINE, No. 3.

(2) In Mar 3:14, AV, poieo, "to make," is translated "ordained" (RV, "appointed").

(3) In Hbr 9:6, AV, kataskeuazo, "to prepare" (so RV), is translated "were... ordained.
See PREPARE.

(4) In Act 14:23, AV, cheirotoneo, "to appoint" (RV), is translated "they had ordained."
See APPOINT, No. 11.

(5) In Eph 2:10, AV, proetoimazo, "to prepare before," is translated "hath before ordained" (RV, "afore prepared"); see PREPARE.

(6) In Jud 1:4, AV, prographo, lit., "to write before," is translated "were before... ordained" (RV, "were... set forth").
See SET (forth).

(7) In Act 1:22, AV, ginomai, "to become," is translated "be ordained" (RV, "become").

(8) In Rom 7:10, AV, "ordained" represents no word in the original (see RV).