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CUP
(
)$
, 4221), a diminutive of
, denotes, primarily, a “drinking
vessel”; hence, “a cup” (a) literal, as, e.g., in Matt. 10:42. The “cup” of blessing, 1 Cor.
10:16, is so named from the third (the fourth according to Edersheim) “cup” in the Jewish
Passover feast, over which thanks and praise were given to God. This connection is not to
be rejected on the ground that the church at Corinth was unfamiliar with Jewish customs.
That the contrary was the case, see 5:7; (b) figurative, of one’s lot or experience, joyous
or sorrowful (frequent in the Psalms; cf. Ps. 116:18, “cup of salvation”); in the NT it is
used most frequently of the sufferings of Christ, Matt. 20:22-23; 26:39; Mark 10:38-39;
14:36; Luke 22:42; John 18:11; also of the evil deeds of Babylon, Rev. 17:4; 18:6; of
divine punishments to be inflicted, Rev. 14:10; 16:19. Cf. Ps. 11:6; 75:8; Isa. 51:17; Jer.
25:15; Ezek. 23:32-34; Zech. 12:2.
CURE (Noun and Verb)
A. Noun.
(
5
, 2392), “a healing, a cure” (akin to
, “to heal,” and
, “a
physician”), is used in the plural in Luke 13:32; in Acts 4:22, “healing”, in 4:30 with the
preposition
“unto,” lit., “unto healing,” translated “heal.” See
HEALING
.¶
B. Verb.
$
(
$ "
, 2323), (Eng., “therapeutics,” etc.), denotes (a) primarily, “to
serve” (cf.
and
), Acts 17:25 (
KJV
, “worshiped”); then, (b) “to heal,
restore to health, to cure”; it is usually translated “to heal,” but “cure” in Matt. 17:16, 18;
Luke 7:21; 9:1; John 5:10; Acts 28:9,
RV
. See
HEAL
,
WORSHIP
.
CURIOUS
Note:
For the adjective
, “busy about trifles,” see
BUSYBODY
: it is used of
magic arts in Acts 19:19 (lit., “things that are around work,” and thus superfluous), i.e.,
the arts of those who pry into forbidden things, with the aid of evil spirits. See also 1
Tim. 5:13, where the meaning is “inquisitive,” prying into other people’s affairs.¶
CURSE, CURSING (Noun and Verb), CURSED, ACCURSED
A. Nouns.
1.
(
$1
, 685), in its most usual meaning, “a malediction, cursing” (its other
meaning is “a prayer”), is used in Rom. 3:14 (often in the Sept.)¶
2.
(
1$
, 2671),
, “down,” intensive, and No. 1, denotes an “execration,
imprecation, curse,” uttered out of malevolence, Jas. 3:10; 2 Pet. 2:14; or pronounced by
God in His righteous judgment, as upon a land doomed to barrenness, Heb. 6:8; upon
those who seek for justification by obedience, in part or completely, to the Law, Gal.
3:10, 13; in this 13th verse it is used concretely of Christ, as having “become a curse” for
us, i.e., by voluntarily undergoing on the cross the appointed penalty of the “curse.” He
thus was identified, on our behalf, with the doom of sin. Here, not the verb in the Sept. of
Deut. 21:23 is used (see B, No. 3), but the concrete noun.¶
3.
(
/
, 33), transliterated from the Greek, is frequently used in the Sept.,
where it translates the Heb.
, “a thing devoted to God,” whether (a) for His