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Note
: Matthew, Mark and John each use a different word for “branch” in narrating
Christ’s entry into Jerusalem.
BRANDED
$
(
$ 1
, 2743), “to burn in with a branding iron” (cf. Eng.,
“caustic”), is found, in the best mss., in 1 Tim. 4:2,
RV
“branded.” Others have
$
(from
$
, “a branding-iron,” Eng., “cauterize”), to mark by
“branding,” an act not quite so severe as that indicated by the former. The reference is to
apostates whose consciences are “branded” with the effects of their sin. See
SEARED
.¶
Note:
In the
RV
of Gal. 6:17, “branded” does not represent a word in the original; it
serves to bring out the force of the apostle’s metaphor of bearing in his body the
, the marks, of the Lord Jesus. The reference is not to the branding of slaves,
soldiers and criminals, but rather to the religious devotee, who “branded” himself with
the mark of the god whom he specially worshipped. So Paul describes the physical marks
due to the lictor’s rods at Philippi and to the stones at Lystra, marks which, while not
self-inflicted, betokened his devotion to Christ and his rejoicing therein.
BRASS, BRAZEN
1.
(
, 5475), primarily, “copper,” became used for metals in general,
later was applied to bronze, a mixture of copper and tin, then, by metonymy, to any
article made of these metals, e.g., money, Matt. 10:9; Mark 6:8; 12:41, or a sounding
instrument, 1 Cor. 13:1, figurative of a person destitute of love. See Rev. 18:12. See
MONEY
.¶
2.
(
1
, 5470), “made of brass or bronze,” is used of idols, Rev. 9:20.¶
3.
(
&
, 5473) is used in Mark 7:4 of “brazen vessels.”¶
4.
(
&
, 5474) is used of “white or shining copper or
bronze,” and describes the feet of the Lord, in Rev. 1:15 and 2:18.¶
5.
$
(
"
, 5471) denotes “a coppersmith,” 2 Tim. 4:14.¶
BRAWLER
1.
(
1$
, 3943), an adjective, lit., “tarrying at wine” (
, “at,”
,
“wine”), “given to wine,” 1 Tim. 3:3 and Titus 1:7,
KJV
, probably has the secondary
sense, of the effects of wine-bibbing, viz., abusive brawling. Hence
RV
, “brawler.” See
WINE
.¶
2.
(
/
, 269), an adjective, lit., “not fighting” ( , negative,
, “a
fight”), came to denote, metaphorically, “not contentious,” 1 Tim. 3:3, and Titus 3:2,
RV
,
for
KJV
, “not a brawler,” “not brawlers.” See
CONTENTIOUS
.¶
BREAD (Loaf)
1.
(
/$
, 740), “bread” (perhaps derived from
, “to fit together,” or from a
root
I
, “the earth”), signifies (a) “a small loaf or cake,” composed of flour and water,
and baked, in shape either oblong or round, and about as thick as the thumb; these were
not cut, but broken and were consecrated to the Lord every Sabbath and called the
“shewbread” (loaves of presentation), Matt. 12:4; when the “shewbread” was reinstituted
by Nehemiah (Neh. 10:32) a poll-tax of 1/3 shekel was laid on the Jews, Matt. 17:24; (b)