Consider (Hastings' Dictionary)
To c. is either to look carefully at or think carefully about. The former sense is now obsol. or archaic : I'r 31" ' She c""" a field and buyetli it'; Lv 13" 'the priest shall c' (i.e. examine the lejier, nx-;, RV 'look'); Sir SS^* 'The smith also Hitting by the anvil, and c""' the iron work ' ; He 13' ' c"« the end of their conversation ' (ara0(iji- poOi/Tfs) ; Gal 6' 'c. thyself, lest thou also be tempted ' (aKoiriw, RV ' looking to '). So Cover- dale s tr.
of Neh 2" ' Then wente I on in the nighte . . and considered the wall' (AV 'viewed'). ' Consider of ' is now rare : Jg 19* ' c. of it, take advice, and speak ' ; Ts 64" ; Pref. to AV ' [they] set them forth openly to be c'' of and perused by all.' J. Hastings.
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