Intet

not (chinnam; katargeo) "Nought" må skelnes fra "naught", som antyder "ondskab" eller "dårlighed" (se NAUGHT). "Nought" i betydningen "intet" osv. er oversættelsen af chinnam, "gratis" (1 Mos 29,15), og af forskellige andre ord, der kun forekommer én gang, f.eks. 'awen, "tomhed" (Am 5,5); tohu, "tomrum", "ruin" (Es 49,4); 'epha`, "intet" (Es 41,24); nabhel, "at visne" (Job 14,18, randnote "visner bort"); pur, "at gøre ugyldig" (Sl 33,10); katargeo, "at gøre uden virkning" (1 Kor 1,28; 1 Kor 2,6); oudeis, "ikke engang én" (ApG 5,36); apelegmos, "gendrivelse" (ApG 19,27, Revised Version (British and American) "komme i miskredit"); dorean, "uden betaling" (2 Thess 3,8, Revised Version (British and American) "for intet"); eremoo, "at lægge øde" (Åb 18,17, Revised Version (British and American) "lagt øde"); kataluo, "at løse ned" (ApG 5,38, Revised Version (British and American) "blive omstyrtet"). I Apokryferne har vi "regne for intet" og "blive til intet" osv. (1 Esdras 1,56; 2 Esdras 2,33; 8,59).

For "nought" har Revised Version (British and American) "perish" (5 Mos 28,63); for "come to nought" (Job 8,22), "be no more"; "nought" for "not ought" (2 Mos 5,11), for "no might" (5 Mos 28,32); for "brought to silence", to gange (Es 15,1), "brought to nought"; American Standard Revised Version "bring to nought" (1 Kor 1,19) for "bring to nothing" (English Revised Version "reject"); "nought but terror" (Es 28,19) for "a vexation only"; "brought to nought" (Es 16,4) for "is at an end"; "come to nought" for "taken none effect" (Rom 9,6); "set at nought" for "despise" (Rom 14,3).

W. L. Walker