Come (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. Come about, i.e. 'come round,' either lit. 2 Ch 13" '.Jeroboam caused an ambusliment to c. about behind them' (nri) ; or fig. 1 S 1'-^" 'when the time was c. about' (D'n;ri nisj^S on the return of the days). 2. Come again, i.e. 'come back' (see Again), as Jg 15" ' when he had drunk, his spirit came a. and he revived' (n's). 3. Come at, (1) ' come near,' ' reach,' Dn 6'-'' ' the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den' ; Lk 8" ' they could not c. at him for the crowd ' ; (2) 'come near,' 'touch,' Nu 6' 'he shall c. at no dead body ' (RV ' c. near to ') ; (3) so as to have sexual intercourse. Ex 19" ' c. not at your wives ' (RV 'c. not near a woman'). 4. Come by, 'come near,' esp. so as to get bold of, Ac 27" ' we had much work to c. by the boat' (RV, ' we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat') : cf. Pref. to AV 'Translation it is . . . that removeth the cover of the well, that we may c. by the water ' ; and Shaks. Two Gent, of Ver. in. i. 125— ' Love is like a child. That longs for ever>-thing that he can come by.' S. Come in, 'enter upon,' 'begin,' Ro 11^ 'until the fulness of the GentUes be c. in' (da^pxofuu). Cf. Shaks. 2 Henry IV. v. iii. 52— Now comes in the sweet of the night. For the phrase ' He that should come ' (6 ipxi/J-eyoi, RV ' he that cometh ') see Jesus Christ, and Messiah. And for the Second Coming see Paeousia. J. Hastings. COMELY, COMELINESS These words, wjyn slightly archaic in any sense, are quite obscl. in the sense of moral fitness or beauty, a meanin" which they have a few times in EV, as Ps 33 'praise is c. for the upright.' Dr. Murray (Oxf. Eng. Diet, s.v.) thinks the earliest meaning of 'comely' may have been 'delicately fashioned,' so that we may compare Jer 6- ' the c. and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.' But the usage of AV (foil, by RV) gives us: (1) Beftting, Ec 5" 'it is good and c. for one to eat and to drink and to enjoy the good of all his labour' ; 1 Co 11" ' is it c. that a woman pray unto God uncovered?' (jrp^Tfi, RV 'is it seemly?'). (2) Pleasing to the eye, because befitting, Job 41'= 'his c. proportion' (Amer. RV 'goodly frame'); Ezk 27" 'they set forth thy comeliness' (Tin). Then (3) handsome, beautiful, majestic (the distinction 'might be rather caJled comely than beautiful ' being quite modern), Ca 6* 'Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, c. as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners' ; Is 53- ' he hath no form nor comeliness.' J. Hastings.