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mentioned in the NT; “a good tree,” Matt. 7:17, 18; 12:33; Luke 6:43; “a corrupt tree”
(ditto); in Jude 12, metaphorically, of evil teachers, “autumn trees (
KJV
, ‘trees whose fruit
withereth’) without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,”
RV
; in Luke 13:19 in some
texts, “a great tree,”
KJV
(
RV
, “a tree”); for this and Matt. 13:32 see
MUSTARD
; in Luke
21:29 “the fig tree” is illustrative of Israel, “all the trees” indicating gentile nations.
2.
@$
(
"
, 3586), “wood, a piece of wood, anything made of wood” (see
STAFF
,
STOCKS
), is used, with the rendering “tree,” (a) in Luke 23:31, where “the green tree”
refers either to Christ, figuratively of all His living power and excellencies, or to the life
of the Jewish people while still inhabiting their land, in contrast to “the dry,” a figure
fulfilled in the horrors of the Roman massacre and devastation in A.D. 70 (cf. the Lord’s
parable in Luke 13:6–9; see Ezek. 20:47, and cf. 21:3); (b) of “the cross,” the tree being
the
$
, the upright pale or stake to which Romans nailed those who were thus to be
executed, Acts 5:30; 10:39; 13:29; Gal. 3:13; 1 Pet. 2:24; (c) of “the tree of life,” Rev.
2:7; 22:2 (twice), 14, 19,
RV
,
KJV
, “book.” See
WOOD
.
TREMBLE, TREMBLING
A. Verbs.
1.
(
$!
, 5141), “to tremble, especially with fear,” is used in Mark 5:33; Luke
8:47 (Acts 9:6, in some mss.); 2 Pet. 2:10,
RV
, “they tremble (not),”
KJV
, “they are (not)
afraid.Ӧ
2.
(
&
, 4579), “to move to and fro, shake,” is rendered “will I make to tremble”
in Heb. 12:26,
RV
(
KJV
, “I shake”). See
QUAKE
,
SHAKE
.
Notes:
(1) For
in Jas. 2:19,
KJV
, “tremble,” see
SHUDDER
. (2) For the adjective
, “trembling,” Acts 7:32; 16:29,
RV
, “trembling for fear,” see
QUAKE
, No. 1. (3)
The adjective
, used with
, “to become,” is rendered “trembled” in Acts
24:25 (
RV
, “was terrified”); in Luke 24:5,
RV
, “they were affrighted,”
KJV
, “they were
afraid.” See
AFFRIGHTED
, A.
B. Noun.
(
$
, 5156), “a trembling” (akin to A, No. 1), occurs in Mark 16:8,
RV
,
“trembling ( … had come upon them)”; 1 Cor. 2:3; 2 Cor. 7:15; Eph. 6:5; Phil. 2:12.¶
TRENCH
@
(
1$
, 5482), primarily “a pointed stake,” hence, “a palisade or rampart,” is
rendered “trench” in Luke 19:43,
KJV
(
RV
, “bank,” marg., “palisade”). In A.D. 70, Titus,
the Roman general, surrounded Jerusalem with a palisaded mound (Tyndale, l.c. renders
it “mound”). The Jews in one of their sorties destroyed this
@
, after which Titus
surrounded the city with a wall of masonry.¶
TRESPASS (Noun and Verb)
A. Noun.
(
$1
, 3900), primarily “a false step, a blunder” (akin to
, “to fall away,” Heb. 6:6), lit., “a fall beside,” used ethically, denotes “a
trespass,” a deviation, from uprightness and truth, Matt. 6:14, 15 (twice); 18:35, in some
mss.; Mark 11:25, 26; in Romans the
RV
substitutes “trespass” and “trespasses” for
KJV
,