Bid 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) (Zechariah 1:7; compare 1 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) and of the Great Supper (Luke 14:7-24);
(6) "to take leave of," appotasso (Luke 9:61).