All (Hastings' Dictionary)

There are few words in the Eng. Bible the precise meaning of which is so often missed as the word 'all.* The foil, examples need special attention. 1. When joined to a pers. pron. all usually follows the pron. in mod. usage, in early Eng. it often precedes it. 18 53" 'All we like sheep have gone astray ' ; but Is 64" ' We all do fade as a leaf.' 2. All stands for 'all peo|)le' in 1 Ti 4" ' that thy profiting may appear to all.' 3. Follow ing the Gr.

(:ras), all is used with a freedom winch is denied to it in mod. Eng. In He V, 'willioiu all contradiction,' all = aiiy whatever. Cf. Shaks. Macbeth, 111. ii. 11— 'Thinirs without all rcmedj Should he without rcffurd.* In Col 1'° 'unto all jileasing' is a literal tr. of the (Jr., and means 'in order to please (God) In every way.' Similarly all is used for 'every' in I)t '22' ' In like manner shall thou do . .

with all (KV 'every ') lost thing of thy brother's'; Kev IS" 'all manner of vessels of ivory,' and even witbimt the word 'manner' in the same verse, 'all thyine wood.' 4. ylW means 'altogether' in 1 K 14'" 'till it be all gone' ; Nah 3' ' Woe to the bloody city 1 it is all full of lies.' Cf. Caxton (I4H3) "The lady wente onto of her wytte and was al deiiiunyiik.' This is the meaning of 'all' in 'All hail,' .Mt 2S", literally, ' be altogether whole, or in heultli.' S.

-{II apj)cars in some interesting phrases. All along: 1 S '28** 'Then Saul fell straightway all ahmg on the earth ' (KV ' his full length \\\nm the earth ') ; .ler 41" 'weeping all along as he went,' i.e. throughout the whole way he went; cf. 'I knew that all along,' i.e. thronghout the whole time. All in all: 1 Co IS-"' 'that (Jod may be all in all' ((iT. travra. iv ira<nf, (dl thiuijs iu all [pr,rst>n.f and] Ihitujs). Cf. Sir 4.3-'' ' He (God) is all ' (t6 irdv taTiv airris).

DiU'ereiit is Shaks. (/lam. I. ii. I'JS) •Tuke liiiii for nil in all, I shall not look upon hid like a(;ain,' where n// in rtW is 'altogether.' All one: 1 Co II' 'that is even all one IKV 'one and the same 61 ALLA]\r^[ELECH ALLEGUHV lli'jig') as if she were shaven' ; Job 9^ RV^'It is all one' (Heb. n'ri-nnK), i.e. it is a matter of indiffer- ence. All the whole occurs in Ps 96' I'r. lik. 'Sing unto the Lord, all the whole earth' (AV (ind RV 'all the earth').

This roiluiulancy is found in various forms in olil Kii>;., as 'the whole all,' 'the all whole,' 'all and whole.' For all: ,ln 21" 'for all ( = notwithstanding) there were so many.' Cf. Tindale's tr. of Ac ili" ' for all that we are Romans.' Once for all: He lu'" (Gr. ^(jiiTrai) ; this is the only occurrence in AV, and it gives /or all in ital. ; hut RV, which omits the italics here, gives the same tr. of this adv. in He 7-"' 9", Jude \ and in marg. of Ro 6'". In 1 Co 15" it is tr.

'at once' in both VSS. All to brake: .Jg 9"* 'And a certain woman cast a piece of a mill- stone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake (RV 'and brake') his skull.' This is the most interesting of those phrases in which the word ' all ' is found. The meaning is not, ' and all in order to break his skull ' ; the verb is in the past tense. The 'to' is not the sign of the infin., it goes with the verb, like the Ger. zer, to signify asunder, or in pieces.

So we find to-burst, to-cut, to-rend, to- rive, etc. ' All ' was prefi.xed to this emphatic verb to give it greater empluisis. Hence 'all to-hrake' means 'altogether broke in pieces.' Cf. Tindale's tr. of Mt T" ' lest they tread them under their feet, and the other turn again, and all to rent you.' Sir T. More says ( ]Vorks, 1557, p. 1224) ' She fel in hand with hym . . and all to rated him.' J. Hastings.