588-Page Book of Mormon in Alphabetics

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Here is the definition of word 588 in Zodhiate's Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament:

588 apodechomai; fut. apodexomai, mid. deponent from apo (575), an intens., and dechomai (1209), to take from another for oneself, to receive.  Used only by Luke, of person, to receive kindly or hospitably (Luke 8:40; Acts 15:4; 18:27); of God's Word, to receive or embrace heartily (Acts 2:41); or benefits, to receive or accept gratefully (Acts 24:3).
    Deriv.: apodektos (587), acceptable; apodeche (594), a receiving back.
    Syn.: lambano (2983), to receive without necessarily indicating a favorable reception; paralambano (3880), to receive from another; apolambano (618), to receive from another as one's due; proslambano (4355), to take to oneself; eudokeo (2106), to approve; sugkatatithemai (4784), to consent; eurasteo (2100), to please or be pleased; paradechomai (3858), to accept with delight, receive; prosdechomai (4327), to accept, to look for; egkrino (1469), to reckon on, approve; homologeo (3670), to assent, confess, accept, accept together.
    Ant.: lambano (593), to reject by disapproving; atheteo (114), to do away with; ekptuo (1609), to spit out or reject; paraiteomai (3868), to beg off, ask to be excused; arneomai (720), to deny, renounce; parakouo (3878), to refuse to hear, disobey; apoballo (577), to cast away; aporripto (641), to reject; apotheomai (683), to put away from oneself; aparneomai (533), to deny utterly; apotassomai (657), to renounce or to place in its proper category away from oneself; apopheugo (668), to escape, avoid; apodokimazo (593), to disapprove.

I don't have a scanner right now, but here is a digital photo of the page I just quoted:

I've quoted it verbatim from the page.  The only change I've made is to add red highlighting of pertinent words (most of them).

Receive, e.g. of God's Word.  That is one of the example usages given.

One can hardly imagine a more suitable word definition to correlate as a witness of the Book of Mormon.

Page 588 in Gesenius' OT Lexicon

The first word definition on page 588 of my Old Testament, Hebrew lexicon by H.W.F. Gesenius conveys a similar concept:

5541 sawlaw  To lift up. Whence --
(1) To suspend a balance, to weigh
(2) to despise (as light things are of small importance and value, heavy things much)
PUAL  used of wisdom, "it cannot be weighed with gold of Ophir," it cannot be bought with gold.

The word "weigh" fits the idea, "I will try their faith."  The definition in Strong's is even more fittings:

5541 sawlaw  to hang up, i.e. weight, or (fig.) contemn: -- tread down (under foot), value.

Here is the exact word used in III Nephi 26: "if they shall not receive these things, then shall the greater things be withheld unto their condemnation."

The grouping of words on the last half of the page seem to paint a picture of the Savior, Jesus Christ, which is the central message of the Book of Mormon.

5543 "lifted up"
5544 a thorn
5545 to pardon, forgive
5546 forgiving
5548 pardon, forgiveness

We lifted him up and condemned him, plating his head with thorns, yet he offers forgiveness.  And his arms are stretched out still.

Page 588 in James Strong's Concordance of the Bible

Page 588 of Strong's Concordance has a couple of notable entries.

Two of the three columns are for verses that use the word "law" in them.  The first two on the page are Matthew 5:17 and 5:18

    Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
    For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

This is an ideal verse in reference to the Book of Mormon, which the Christian world has declared an unauthorized addition to the Bible -- something that cannot be done.  Yet here is a statement of Christ, and how he responded to the Jews in his day, when confronted with a similar accusation.

Here is what the Lord said about the Book of Mormon through Joseph Smith (Doctrine and Covenants 10:52):

    Behold, I do not bring it to destroy that which they have received, but to build it up.

Another word of interest on page 588 of Strong's is lawyer.  Here is what the Book of Mormon (Alma 10:27; see chapter context) says about lawyers:

    The foundation of the destruction of this people is beginning to be laid by the unrighteousness of your lawyers and your judges.

One of the prime purposes of the Book of Mormon is to provide parallel social commentary on our day.

The last word heading on page 588 of Strong's Concordance is

lay See also LAID; LAIN; LAYEDST; LAYEST; LAYETH; LAYING; LIE; OVERLAY.

This by itself doesn't seem to have great significance, but when compared to page 588 in Zodhiates' New Testament lexicon, with definitions "to lie in wait..." (1748) and "a lying in wait" (1749), it serves as an overlapping witness of the alphabetics phenomenon.

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