Enlarge, enlargement (Hastings' Dictionary)

To 'enlarge' is to ' cause to be large ' that which is narrow or confined. It also sio;nifies ' to make larger ' that which may be considered large already, as Mt 23° ' they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments' (/ieyaXww) , but the prefix en- ( = Lat. in) has properly a strong causative force, as in 'enable,' 'enfeeble,' 'enrich.' Hence arises the meaning of ' set at large,' 'liberate,' as in Sidney, Arcadia, (1622), 329, 'Like a Liones.se lately enlarged.'

This is undoubtedly the meaning of enlargement initsonly occurrence Est 4''' ' For if thou altogether boldest thy peaceat this time, then shall there e. and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place ' (ni-i, AVm ' respira- tion,' RV ' relief '). Cf. Act 32, Henry viIl. c. 2, § 9 ( 1540), ' After his enlargement and commyng out of prison.' And that 'enlarge' is used in this sense in AV is evident, as Ps 4' 'thou hast en- larged me when I was in distress' (RV 'hast set me at large'); prob.

also 2S •22" = Ps 18^" 'thou hast enlarged my steps under me.' So when applied to the heart, Ps llff" (n-rnn). Is 60» (an-;), 2 Co 6" (TrXarwu), the sen.se is first of all freedom, and then the joy that flows from it (cf. 2 Co G" n\aTvv<a, and 10 /iFyaXiVw), the opp. being 'to be straitened,' as in La l* (cf. Jer 4'» 'I am pained at my very heart,' lit., as RVm 'the walls of my heart 1 '), and 2 Co 6". J. HASTINGS. EN-MISHPAT (BSfi?

py), 'spring of judgment,' or 'decision' (by oracle), Gn 14'. — A name for Kadesh — probably Kadesh-barnea. See Kadesh. ENNATAN ('EvvaTdr, AV Eunatan), 1 Es 8« (*» LXX).— See Elnathan.