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$
(
&
, 5178) primarily denotes “to beat a drum” (
$
, “a
kettledrum,” Eng., “tympanal,” “tympanitis,” “tympanum”), hence, “to torture by
beating, to beat to death,” Heb. 11:35.¶ In the Sept., 1 Sam. 21:13, “(David) drummed
(upon the doors of the city).”¶ The tympanum as an instrument of “torture” seems to have
been a wheel-shaped frame upon which criminals were stretched and beaten with clubs or
thongs.
TOSS
1.
(
: &
, 4494), primarily “to fan a fire” (
, “a fan,” cf.
,
“twinkling”), then, “to make a breeze,” is used in the passive voice in Jas. 1:6, “tossed,”
of the raising of waves by the wind.¶
2.
$
(
&
, 2831) signifies “to be tossed by billows” (
$
,
“a billow”); metaphorically, in Eph. 4:14, of an unsettled condition of mind influenced
and agitated by one false teaching and another, and characterized by that immaturity
which lacks the firm conviction begotten by the truth.¶ In the Sept., Isa. 57:20.¶
Note:
For “being … tossed,” Acts 27:18, See
LABOR
, B, No. 2.
TOUCH (Verb)
1.
(
?
, 681), primarily, “to fasten to,” hence, of fire, “to kindle,” denotes, in
the middle voice (a) “to touch,” e.g., Matt. 8:3, 15; 9:20, 21, 29; (b) “to cling to, lay hold
of,” John 20:17; here the Lord’s prohibition as to clinging to Him was indicative of the
fact that communion with Him would, after His ascension, be by faith, through the Spirit;
(c) “to have carnal intercourse with a woman,” 1 Cor. 7:1; (d) “to have fellowship and
association with unbelievers,” 2 Cor. 6:17; (e) (negatively) “to adhere to certain Levitical
and ceremonial ordinances,” in order to avoid contracting external defilement, or to
practice rigorous asceticism, all such abstentions being of “no value against the
indulgence of the flesh,” Col. 2:21,
KJV
(
RV
, “handle”); (f) “to assault,” in order to sever
the vital union between Christ and the believer, said of the attack of the Evil One, 1 John
5:18. See
HANDLE
, No. 2,
KINDLE
,
LIGHT
.
2.
(
1
, 2345), “to touch,” a lighter term than No. 1, though Heb. 11:28
approximates to it, in expressing the action of the Destroyer of the Egyptian firstborn; in
Heb. 12:20 it signifies “to touch,” and is not to be interpreted by Ps. 104:32, “He toucheth
(No. 1 in the Sept.) the hills and they smoke”; in Col. 2:21,
RV
(
KJV
, handle). See
HANDLE
, No. 2.¶
3.
$
(
$ "
, 4379), “to touch upon, to touch slightly,” occurs in Luke
11:46.¶
4.
(
1
, 5584), “to feel, to handle,” is rendered “that might be
touched” in Heb. 12:18. See
FEEL
, No. 3,
HANDLE
, No. 1.
5.
(
1
, 2609), to bring down, is used of bringing a ship to land in Acts
27:3. See
BRING
No. 16.
6.
$
(
!
, 4834), for which see
COMPASSION
, A, No. 3, is rendered
“be touched with” in Heb. 4:15.
7.
(
$ 1
, 3846), for which see
ARRIVE
, No. 4,
COMPARE
, No. 2, is
rendered “touched at” in Acts 20:15,
RV
.