The meaning of Bid in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
Variously signifying, according to six Hebrew and as many Greek originals: (1) "to command" (Numbers 14:10; Matthew 1:24 the King James Version, prostasso); (2) "to prescribe" or "order" (John 2:2); (3) "to consecrate," and so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) (Zephaniah 1:7; compare I Samuel 16:5); (4) eipon, "to say" or "tell" (Matthew 16:12); (5) "to call" i.e. "invite" (kaleo), conspicuously used in this sense in Christ's parables of the Marriage Feast (Matthew 22:3-9) and of the Great Supper (Luke 14:7-24); (6) "to take leave of," appotasso (Luke 9:61).
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