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The meaning of By in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)In the sense of "against" which survives only in dialectal English (compare Wright, Dialect Dict., I, 470, for examples) is the King James Version rendering of the dative emauto of I Corinthians 4:4 (the American Standard Revised Version renders this "against"). In classical Greek the same idiom sunoida with dative = "be conscious" or "be cognizant of' a thing.
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By {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
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