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Away with (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain
  1. Is 1" • the calling of assem- blies, I cannot away with.' Although with the force of a verb, it is really an adv. with the verb elided, get away with, i.e. get on with, tolerate. Cf. More, Utopia, p. 165 (Arber ed.), 'He could not away with the fashions of his country folk'; and Sanderson, Serm. (1621), 'He being the Father of lyes . . . cannot away with the Truth.' The Heb. has a still greater ellipsis than the Eng., being simply ^:in-.sS / cannot. Such verbs, how- ever, as 'yj; to be able, |x? to refuse, are really trans. in Heb. See Davidson, Si/ntax, p. 129. 2. Other elliptical expressions, as fix 19'^ ' Away, get thee Uown ' (RV ' Go, get thee down '), Ac '22" ' Away with such a fellow from the earth,' are easily ex- plained and still in use. 3. ' Make him away ' in 1 Mac 16'^ = ' make away with him' (KV 'destroy him'; cf. Wis 12* AV 'to destroy them at once,' RV ' to make away with them at once'). J. Hastings.
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Away with

Away With (1) "To endure," "to bear with" (Isa 1:13), "I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting," i e. endure the combination of wickedness and worship. In the Hebrew merely, "I am unable iniquity and the solenm meeting." (2) To destroy airo. Found in such expressions as Ac 22:22, "Away with such a fellow from the earth."

References

  1. Orr, J. (ed.) (1915) The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Chicago: Howard-Severance Company. [Public Domain]
  2. Easton, M.G. (1893) Easton's Bible Dictionary. 3rd edn. Thomas Nelson. [Public Domain]
  3. Nave, O.J. (1897) Nave's Topical Bible. Topical Bible Publishing Co.. [Public Domain]
  4. Hastings, J. (ed.) (1909) A Dictionary of the Bible. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. [Public Domain]

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