Dictionaries :: Wear, Wearing

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Wear, Wearing:

a frequentative form of phero, "to bear," and denoting "repeated or habitual action," is chiefly used of clothing, weapons, etc., of soft raiment, Mat 11:8; fine clothing, Jam 2:3; the crown of thorns, Jhn 19:5.
See BEAR, No. 7.

Wear, Wearing:

"to put on," is used in the Active Voice in Mar 15:17 (in good mss.; some have No. 3); in Luk 8:27 (Middle Voice), in some texts; the best have No. 3. For Luk 16:19, see CLOTHE, No. 3.

Wear, Wearing:

is rendered "to wear" in Luk 8:27 (Middle Voice; see No. 2).
See CLOTHE, No. 2, PUT, No. 26.

Wear, Wearing:

"to bend, decline," is used of a day, "wearing" away, Luk 9:12 (in Luk 24:29, "is far spent").
See BOW, No. 4, FLIGHT, B, LAY, No. 6, SPEND.

Wear, Wearing:

is translated "wear (me) out" in Luk 18:5, RV (AV, "weary"). For this and the somewhat different application in 1Cr 9:27, see BUFFET, No. 2.

Wear, Wearing:

"a putting around or on" (peri, "around," tithemi, "to put"), is used in 1Pe 3:3 of "wearing" jewels of gold (RV).