Abroad (Hastings' Dictionary)
In its modem meaning of ' in (oi ' to ') another country,' a. is not used in AV or RV. The nearest approach ia Jn 11" ' The children of God that are scattered a.' On the other hand a. is used in senses now whoUy or nearly obsolete. 1. It signifies specially outside one's own dwelling, the opp. of ' at home.' Lv 18' ' Whether she be bom at home or bom a.' i La V ' A. the sword bereaveth, at home there is BS death ' ; Jg 12' ' Thirty daughters he sent a.
, and thirty daughters he brought in from a. for his sons ' ; Dt 23'" ' Then shall he go a. out of the camp ' ; Lk 8" ' Neither anything hid that shall not be known and come a.' (KV ' to light') ; Sir 26* ' A drunken woman and a gadder a.' Cf. — • where as he lay So sick alway Be might not come abroad.' —Sir T. More, A Merry J4$t, 2. On the outside of anything : Lv 13" ' II a leprosy break out a. in the skin.' 3.
In the general sense of openly, freely, \videlv : Mk 1" ' But he went out, and "began to publisn it mncb, and to blaze a. the matter ' ; Ro 16" ' For your obedience is come a. unto all men ' ; 5' ' The love of God is shed a. in your hearts.' J, Hastinos.
This topic also has an entry in the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Both articles offer independent scholarly perspectives.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Abroad
Abroad a-brod: An idiomatic rendering of aphiketo (literally, "arrived"), "come abroad" is used in Ro 16:19 to indicate a report that has been most widely diffused (literally, "did reach unto all"). Similar idiomatic translations of the King James Version have been replaced in the Revised Version (British and American) by those more literal, as in Mr 4:22; Lu 8:17; Mr 6:14; 1Th 1:8. Used also in other idiomatic renderings, as "spread abroad" diaphemizo, Mr 1:45; "noised abroad" dialaleo, Lu 1:65; "scattered abroad," Joh 11:52; Ac 8:1, etc.; in all these cases for the pervasive meaning of the Greek preposition in composition. In Ge 15:5, chuts means "outside." ⇒See the definition of abroad in the KJV Dictionary H. E. Jacobs
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