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“gift” in each case); elsewhere in Rom. 5:16. It is to be distinguished also from
,
the usual word for a gift. See
GIFT
.¶
BORDER
1.
(
$1
, 2899) was primarily “the extremity or prominent part of a
thing, an edge”; hence “the fringe of a garment, or a little fringe,” hanging down from the
edge of the mantle or cloak. The Jews had these attached to their mantles to remind them
of the Law, according to Num. 15:38-39; Deut. 22:12; Zech. 8:23.¶. This is the meaning
in Matt. 23:5. In Matt. 9:20; 14:36; Mark 6:56; Luke 8:44, it is used of the border of
Christ’s garment (
KJV
“hem,” in the first two places). See
HEM
.¶
2.
(
6$
, 3725), “the border of a country or district” (cf. Eng., “horizon”), is
always used in the plural. The
KJV
has “coasts,” but “borders” in Matt. 4:13; the
RV
always “borders,” Matt. 2:16; 4:13; 8:34; 15:22, 39; 19:1; Mark 5:17; 7:31 (twice); 10:1;
Acts 13:50. In some of these it signifies territory. See
COAST
.¶
3.
(
$
, 3181**),
, “with,” and No. 2, similar in meaning, is
found, in some mss., in Mark 7:24.¶ Cf.
, under BOUND.
For
BORN
see
BEGET
For
BORNE
see
BEAR
BORROW
(
&
, 1155), in the active voice signifies “to lend money,” as in Luke
6:34-35, in the middle voice, “to have money lent to oneself, to borrow,” Matt. 5:42.¶ Cf.
< =
, “a debt,” Matt. 18:27,¶ and
< =
, “a creditor,” Luke 7:41.¶ See
LEND
.
BOSOM
(
, 2859) signifies (a) “the front of the body between the arms”; hence,
to recline in the “bosom” was said of one who so reclined at table that his head covered,
as it were, the “bosom” of the one next to him, John 13:23. Hence, figuratively, it is used
of a place of blessedness with another, as with Abraham in paradise, Luke 16:22-23
(plural in v. 23), from the custom of reclining at table in the “bosom,” a place of honor;
of the Lord’s eternal and essential relation with the Father, in all its blessedness and
affection as intimated in the phrase, “The Only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of
the Father” (John 1:18); (b) “of the bosom of a garment, the hollow formed by the upper
forepart of a loose garment, bound by a girdle and used for carrying or keeping things”;
thus figuratively of repaying one liberally, Luke 6:38; cf. Isa. 65:6; Jer. 39:18; (c) “of an
inlet of the sea,” because of its shape, like a bosom, Acts 27:39. See
BAY
,
CREEK
.¶
For
BOTH
see
Note
†
, p. 1
For
BOTTLE
see
SKIN
BOTTOM, BOTTOMLESS
A. Adverb.
(
1
, 2736); for this see
BENEATH
.
B. Adjective.