Bible Dictionary
BID
To command, order, prescribe, consecrate, tell, invite, or take leave, according to context. In Jesus' teaching it commonly refers to inviting people to a feast or gathering.
Definition
Bid may mean to command, prescribe, order, consecrate, tell, invite, or take leave. Its meaning is determined by the Hebrew or Greek word and the context in which it occurs.
Biblical Usage
The term describes commands and prescriptions, consecration, telling, taking leave, and invitation. Jesus used it prominently in the parables of the Marriage Feast and the Great Supper for calling or inviting people.
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>Variously signifying, according to six Hebrew and as many Greek originals:</p><p>(1) "to command" (Nu 14:10; Mt 1:24 the King James Version, prostasso);</p><p>(2) "to prescribe" or "order" (Joh 2:2);</p><p>(3) "to consecrate," and so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) (Ze 1:7; compare 1Sa 16:5);</p><p>(4) eipon, "to say" or "tell" (Mt 16:12);</p><p>(5) "to call" i.e. "invite" (kaleo), conspicuously used in this sense in Christ's parables of the Marriage Feast (Mt 22:3- 9) and of the Great Supper (Lu 14:7-24);</p><p>(6) "to take leave of," appotasso (Lu 9:61).</p>