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4.
$
(
"$
, 4451), akin to
$
, “to set on fire,” signifies (a) “a burning”;
(b) “a refining,” metaphorically in 1 Pet. 4:12, “fiery trial,” or rather “trial by fire,”
referring to the refining of gold (1:7). See
BURNING
.
Note:
For
, rendered “trial” in 1 Pet. 1:7,
KJV
, see
PROOF
, No. 2.
TRIBE (-S)
1.
$
(
)
, 5443), “a company of people united by kinship or habitation, a clan,
tribe,” is used (a) of the peoples of the earth, Matt. 24:30; in the following the
RV
has
“tribe(-s)” for
KJV
, “kindred(-s),” Rev. 1:7; 5:9; 7:9; 11:9; 13:7; 14:6; (b) of the “tribes”
of Israel, Matt. 19:28; Luke 2:36; 22:30; Acts 13:21; Rom. 11:1; Phil. 3:5; Heb. 7:13, 14;
Jas. 1:1; Rev. 5:5; 7:4-8; 21:12.¶
2.
$
(
1
, 1429), an adjective signifying “of twelve tribes”
(
, “twelve,” and No. 1), used as a noun in the neuter, occurs in Acts 26:7.¶
TRIBULATION
(
&
, 2347), for which see
AFFLICTION
, B, No. 4, is translated “tribulation”
in the
RV
(for
KJV
, “affliction”) in Mark 4:17; 13:19; plural in 2 Thess. 1:4,
KJV
,
“tribulations,”
RV
, “afflictions”; in Acts 14:22 “many tribulations” (
KJV
, “much
tribulation”); in Matt. 24:9, “unto tribulation” (
KJV
, “to be afflicted”); in 2 Cor. 1:4; 7:4; 2
Thess. 1:6,
KJV
, “tribulation” for
RV
, “affliction”;
RV
and
KJV
, “tribulation(-s),” e.g., in
Rom. 2:9; 5:3 (twice); 8:35; 12:12; Eph. 3:13; Rev. 1:9; 2:9, 10, 22.
In Rev. 7:14, “the great tribulation,”
RV
, lit., “the tribulation, the great one” (not as
KJV
, without the article), is not that in which all saints share; it indicates a definite period
spoken of by the Lord in Matt. 24:21, 29; Mark 13:19, 24, where the time is mentioned as
preceding His second advent, and as a period in which the Jewish nation, restored to
Palestine in unbelief by gentile instrumentality, will suffer an unprecedented outburst of
fury on the part of the antichristian powers confederate under the Man of Sin (2 Thess.
2:10-12; cf. Rev. 12:13-17); in this tribulation gentile witnesses for God will share (Rev.
7:9), but it will be distinctly “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jer. 30:7); its beginning is
signalized by the setting up of the “abomination of desolation” (Matt. 24:15; Mark 13:14,
with Dan. 11:31; 12:11).
Note:
For the verb
, in the passive voice rendered “suffer tribulation” in 1
Thess. 3:4,
KJV
(
RV
, “suffer affliction”), see
AFFLICT
, No. 4.
TRIBUTE
1.
(
$
, 5411), akin to
, “to bring,” denotes “tribute” paid by a
subjugated nation, Luke 20:22; 23:2; Rom. 13:6, 7.¶
2.
(
, 2778), Lat. and Eng., “census,” denotes “a poll tax,” Matt. 17:25;
22:17, 19; Mark 12:14.¶
3.
(
& $
, 1323), “the halfshekel,” is rendered “tribute” in Matt.
17:24 (twice): see
SHEKEL
, No. 2.¶
TRIM
(
!
, 2885), “to arrange, adorn,” is used of “trimming” lamps, Matt.
25:7. See
ADORN
,
GARNISH
.