a pledge, earnest, 2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; Eph. 1:14*

pr. raveneous, ravening, as a wild beast, Mt. 7:15; met. rapacious, given to extortion and robbery, an extortioner, Lk. 18:11; 1 Cor. 5:10, 11; 6:10*

to seize, as a wild beast, Jn. 10:12; take away by force, snatch away, Mt. 13:19; Jn. 10:28, 29; Acts 23:10; Jude 23; met. to seize on with avidity, eagerly, appropriate, Mt.

eager seizure;, in NT, a thing retained with an eager grasp, or eagerly claimed and conspicuously exercised, Phil. 2:6*

plunder, pillage; the act of plundering, Heb. 10:34; prey, spoil, Mt. 23:25; Lk. 11:39*

a plow, Lk. 9:62*

to plow, Lk. 17:7; 1 Cor. 9:10*

a young lamb, lamb, Jn. 21:15; Rev. 5:6, 8

Arni, pr. name, Lk. 3:33*