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QUICKSANDS
Note:
This is the
KJV
rendering in Acts 27:17 of
-$
, “Syrtis” (
RV
). The Syrtes,
Major and Minor, lie on the north coast of Africa, between the headlands of Tunis and
Barca. They have been regarded as dangerous to mariners from very early times, both
from the character of the sands and from the crosscurrents of the adjoining waters. In the
voyage described in this chapter the vessel had left the shelter of the island of Cauda and
was drifting before the N.E. wind Euraquilo. The mariners might well fear that they
would be driven on the Syrtes on the leeward of their course. The changing character of
the tempest, however, drove them into the sea of Adria.¶
QUIET, QUIETNESS
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
@$
, 2263), “quiet, tranquil,” occurs in 1 Tim. 2:2,
RV
, “tranquil” (
KJV
,
“quiet”); it indicates tranquillity arising from without.¶
2.
$
(
4 "
, 2272) has much the same meaning as No. 1, but indicates
“tranquillity arising from within,” causing no disturbance to others. It is translated “quiet”
in 1 Tim. 2:2,
RV
(
KJV
, “peaceable”); “quiet” in 1 Pet. 3:4, where it is associated with
“meek,” and is to characterize the spirit or disposition. See
PEACEABLE
.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
$
(
4 1
, 2270), akin to A, No. 2, “to be still, to live quietly”: see
CEASE
, A, No. 3.¶
2.
(
!
, 2687) denotes “to quiet”: see
APPEASE
.
B. Verbs.
1.
$
(
4 1
, 2270), akin to A, No. 2, “to be still, to live quietly”: see
CEASE
, A, No. 3.¶
2.
(
!
, 2687) denotes to quiet: see
APPEASE
.
C. Nouns.
1.
(
*$)
, 1515), “peace,” is translated “quietness” in Acts 24:2,
KJV
(
RV
,
“peace”). See
PEACE
(e).
2.
$
(
4 &
, 2271), akin to A, No. 2, and B. No. 1, denotes “quietness,” 2
Thess. 3:12; it is so translated in the
RV
of 1 Tim. 2:11, 12 (
KJV
, “silence”); in Acts 22:2,
RV
, “(they were the more) quiet,”
KJV
, “(they kept the more) silence,” lit., “they kept
quietness the more.Ӧ
QUIT
1.
(
1
, 525), “to free from,” is used in the passive voice in Luke
12:58,
RV
, “to be quit” (
KJV
, “to be delivered”). See
DELIVER
, A, No. 6.
2.
(
$&
, 407) signifies “to make a man of” (
, “a man”); in the
middle voice, in 1 Cor. 16:13, “to play the man,” “quit you like men.”¶