Ἄραψ, -αβος, ὁ, an Arabian: Acts ii. 11.*
ἀργέω, -ῶ; (to be ἀργός, q. v.); to be idle, inactive; contextually, to linger, delay: 2 Pet. ii. 3 οἷς τὸ κρίμα ἔκπαλαι οὐκ ἀργεῖ, i. e. whose punishment has long been impending and will shortly fall. (In Grk. writ. fr. Soph. down.) [Comp.: κατ-αργέω.]*
ἀργός, -όν, and in later writ. fr. Aristot. hist. anim. 10, 40 [vol. i. p. 627a, 15] on and consequently also in the N. T. with the fem. ἀργή, which among the early Greeks Epimenides alone is said to have used, Tit. i. 12; cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 104 sq.; id. Paralip. p. 455 sqq.; W. 68 (67), [cf. 24; B. 25 (23)], (contr. fr. ἄεργος which Hom. uses, fr. α priv. and ἔργον without work, without labor, doing nothing), inactive, idle; a. free from labor, at leisure, (ἀργὸν εἶναι, Hdt. 5, 6): Mt. xx. 3, 6 [Rec.]; 1 Tim. v. 13. b. lazy, shunning the labor which one ought to perform, (Hom. Il. 9, 320 ὅ, τ’ ἀεργὸς ἀνήρ, ὅ, τε πολλὰ ἐοργώς): πίστις, Jas. ii. 20 (L T Tr WH for R G νεκρά); γαστέρες ἀργαί i. e. idle gluttons, fr. Epimenides, Tit. i. 12 (Nicet. ann. 7, 4, 135 d. εἰς ἀργὰς γαστέρας ὀχετηγήσας); ἀργὸς καὶ ἄκαρπος εἴς τι, 2 Pet. i. 8. c. of things from which no profit is derived, although they can and ought to be productive; as of fields, trees, gold and silver, (cf. Grimm on Sap. xiv. 5; [L. and S. s. v. Ι. 2]); unprofitable, ῥῆμα ἀργόν, by litotes i. q. pernicious (see ἄκαρπος): Mt. xii. 36.*
[Syn. ἀργός, βραδύς, νωθρός: ἀργ. idle, involving blameworthiness; βρ. slow (tardy), having a purely temporal reference and no necessary bad sense; νωθρ. sluggish, descriptive of constitutional qualities and suggestive of censure. Schmidt ch. 49; Trench § civ.]
ἀργύρεος -οῦς, -έα -ᾶ, -εον -οῦν, of silver; in the contracted form in Acts xix. 24 [but WH br.]; 2 Tim. ii. 20; Rev. [From Hom. down.]*
ἀργύριον, -ον, τό, (fr. ἄργυρος, q. v.), [fr. Hdt. down]; 1. silver: Acts iii. 6; vii. 16; xx. 33; 1 Pet. i. 18; [1 Co. iii. 12 T Tr WH]. 2. money: simply, Mt. xxv. 18, 27; Mk. xiv. 11; Lk. ix. 3; xix. 15, 23; xxii. 5; Acts viii. 20; plur., Mt. xxviii. [12], 15. 3. Spec. a silver coin, silver-piece, (Luther, Silberling), שֶׁקֶל, σίκλος, shekel [see B. D. s. v.], i. e. a coin in circulation among the Jews after the exile, from the time of Simon (c. B.C. 141) down (cf. 1 Macc. xv. 6 sq. [yet see B. D. s. v. Money, and reff. in Schürer, N. T. Zeitgesch. § 7]); according to Josephus (antt. 3, 8, 2) equal to the Attic tetradrachm or the Alexandrian didrachm (cf. στατήρ [B. D. s. v. Piece of Silver]): Mt. xxvi. 15; xxvii. 3, 5 sq. 9. In Acts xix. 19, ἀργυρίου μυριάδες πέντε fifty thousand pieces of silver (Germ. 50,000 in Silber i. q. Silbergeld), doubtless drachmas [cf. δηνάριον] are meant; cf. Meyer [et al.] ad loc.*
ἀργυροκόπος, -ου, ὁ, (ἄργυρος and κόπτω to beat, hammer; a silver-beater), a silversmith: Acts xix. 24. (Judg. xvii. 4; Jer. vi. 29. Plut. de vitand. aere alien. c. 7.)*
ἄργυρος, -ου, ὁ, (ἀργός shining), [fr. Hom. down], silver: 1 Co. iii. 12 [T Tr WH ἀργύριον (reference is made to the silver with which the columns of noble buildings were covered and the rafters adorned); by meton. things made of silver, silver-work, vessels, images of the gods, etc.: Acts xvii. 29; Jas. v. 3; Rev. xviii. 12. silver coin: Mt. x. 9.*
Ἄρειος [Tdf. Ἄριος] πάγος, -ου, ὁ, Areopagus (a rocky height in the city of Athens not far from the Acropolis toward the west; πάγος a hill, Ἄρειος belonging to (Ares) Mars, Mars’ Hill; so called, because, as the story went, Mars, having slain Halirrhothius, son of Neptune, for the attempted violation of his daughter Alcippe, was tried for the murder here before the twelve gods as judges; Pausan. Attic. 1, 28, 5), the place where the judges convened who, by appointment of Solon, had jurisdiction of capital offences, (as wilful murder, arson, poisoning, malicious wounding, and breach of the established religious usages). The court itself was called Areopagus from the place where it sat, also Areum judicium (Tacit. ann. 2, 55), and curia Martis (Juv. sat. 9, 101). To that hill the apostle Paul was led, not to defend himself before the judges, but that he might set forth his opinions on divine subjects to a greater multitude of people, flocking together there and eager to hear something new: Acts xvii. 19-22; cf. vs. 32. Cf. J. H. Krause in Pauly’s Real-Encycl. 2te Aufl. i. 2 p. 1497 sqq. s. v. Areopag; [Grote, Hist. of Greece, index s. v.; Dicts. of Geogr. and Antiq.; BB.DD. s. v. Areopagus; and on Paul's discourse, esp. B. D. Am. ed. s. v. Mars’ Hill].*
Ἀρεοπαγίτης, Tdf. -γείτης [see s. v. ει, ι], -ου, ὁ, (fr. the preceding [cf. Lob. ad Phryn. 697 sq.]), a member of the court of Areopagus, an Areopagite: Acts xvii. 34.*
ἀρεσκεία (T WH -κία [see Ι, ι]), -ας, ἡ, (fr. ἀρεσκεύω to be complaisant; hence not to be written [with R G L Tr) ἀρέσκεια, [cf. Chandler § 99; W. § 6, 1 g.; B. 12 (11)]), desire to please: περιπατεῖν ἀξίως τοῦ κυρίου εἰς πᾶσαν ἀρεσκείαν, to please him in all things, Col. i. 10; (of the desire to please God, in Philo, opif. § 50; de profug. § 17; de victim. § 3 sub fin. In native Grk. writ. commonly in a bad sense: Theophr. char. 3 (5); Polyb. 31, 26, 5; Diod. 13, 53; al.; [cf. Bp. Lghtft. on Col. l. c.]).*
ἀρέσκω; impf. ἤρεσκον: fut. ἀρέσω; 1 aor. ἤρεσα: (ΑΡΩ [see ἄρα init.]); [fr. Hom. down]; a. to please: τινί, Mt. xiv. 6; Mk. vi. 22; Ro. viii. 8; xv. 2; 1 Th. ii. 15; iv. 1; 1 Co. vii. 32-34; Gal. i. 10; 2 Tim. ii. 4; ἐνώπιόν τινος, after the Hebr. בְּעֵינֵי, Acts vi. 5, (1 K. iii. 10; Gen. xxxiv. 18, etc.). b. to strive to please; to accommodate one’s self to the opinions, desires, interests of others: τινί, 1 Co. x. 33 (πάντα πᾶσιν ἀρέσκων); 1 Th. ii. 4. ἀρέσκειν ἑαυτῷ, to please one’s self and therefore to have an eye to one’s own interests: Ro. xv. 1, 3.*
ἀρεστός, ή, -όν, (ἀρέσκω), pleasing, agreeable: τινί, Jn. viii. 29; Acts xii. 3; ἐνώπιόν τινος, 1 Jn. iii. 22 (cf. ἀρέσκω, a.): ἄρεστόν ἐστι foll. by acc. with inf. it is fit, Acts vi. 2 [yet cf. Meyer ad loc.]. (In Grk. writ. fr. [Soph.] Hdt. down.)*
Ἀρέτας [WH Ἁρ., see their Intr. § 408], -α (cf. W. § 8, 1; [B. 20 (18)]), ὁ, Aretas, (a name common to many of the kings of Arabia Petraea or Nabathaean Arabia [cf. B. D. s. v. Nebaioth]; cf. Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. § 17 b. p. 233 sq.); an Arabian king who made war (A.D. 36) on his son-in-law Herod Antipas for having repu-
