Abide (Hastings' Dictionary)

In AV wid RV 'abide' U used both transitively and intransitively. 1. As a trans, verb in two senses : (a) to await, be in store for, as Ac 2u^ ' Bonds and afilictions abide me'; cf. Ps 37» (Pr. Bk.) 'They that patiently abide the Lord.' (b) To withstand, endure, as Jer 10"" ' The nations shall not be able to abide His indignation ' ; Mai 3^ ' But who may abide the day of His coming ! ' Cf. ' They cannot abide to hear of altering,' Pref.

to AV 1611 ; ' Nature cannot abide that any place should be empty,' H. Smith (1593), Serm. 97. 2. As an intrans. verb in three senses : (a) to continue in the place or in the state in which one now is, as Ac 27" ' Except these abide in the ship ' j Jn 12^ ' Ex- cept a corn of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone ' ; 1 Co 7" ' She is happier if she so abide ' ; 2 Mac 7" ' abide a while, and behold his great power.'

(6) To dwell, reside, as Lk 8" ' And wore no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs'; Ps 61 'I will abide (KV 'dwell') in Thy tabernacle for ever'; Jn 8" ' And the bond-servant abideth not in the house for ever : the son abideth for ever' ; Jn 15" ' Ho that abideth in Me, and I in him.' (c) To last, endure (esp. in the face of trial, cf. 1 (6), above), as 1 Co 3' 'If any man's work abide'; Ps 119" ' Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.' Abiding, as an adj.

, is used by KV, He lU** 'a better possession and an a. one,' and 13" ' an a. city ' ; as a noun it is found 1 Es 8" ' they have given us a sure a. in Jewry.' J. Hastings.