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3.
(
$
, 2522) means, lit., “according to” (
) “the day”
(
), “day by day, daily,” Acts 6:1.¶
Notes:
The following phrases contain the word
, “day,” and are translated
“daily” or otherwise: (a)
, lit., “according to, or for, (the) day, or
throughout the day,” “day by day,” e.g., Luke 11:3; Acts 3:2; 16:5; 1 Cor. 15:31; Heb.
7:27; (b)
, lit., “day and day,” “day by day,” 2 Cor. 4:16; (c)
@
, lit., “day from day,” “from day to day,” 2 Pet. 2:8; (d)
, “this day,”
or “today,” used outside the Synoptists and the Acts, in 2 Cor. 3:14-15, eight times in
Hebrews, and in Jas. 4:13; (e)
, “(unto) this very day,” Rom. 11:8
(
RV
); (f)
, Luke 21:37,
RV
, “every day,” for
KJV
, “in the daytime”; (g)
, Acts 5:42,
RV
, “every day”; preceded by
in Acts 17:17,
RV
, “every day”;
(h)
, lit., “according to each day,” Heb. 3:13, “day by day,”
RV
.
DAINTY
(
$
, 3045) properly signifies “oily, or anointed with oil” (from
,
“grease,” connected with
, “to anoint”); it is said of things which pertain to
delicate and sumptuous living; hence, “dainty,” Rev. 18:14.¶ In the Sept., Judg. 3:29;
Neh. 9:35; Isa. 30:23.¶
For
DAMAGE
see
LOSS
For
DAMNABLE, DAMNATION, and DAMNED
see
CONDEMNATION
,
DESTRUCTION
,
JUDGE
,
JUDGMENT
DAMSEL
1.
(
$1
, 2877), a diminutive of
, “a girl,” denotes “a little girl”
(properly a colloquial word, often used disparagingly, but not so in later writers); in the
NT it is used only in familiar conversation, Matt. 9:24-25 (
KJV
, “maid”); 14:11; Mark
5:41-42; 6:22, 28.¶
2.
(
&
, 3813), a diminutive of
, denotes “a young child (male or
female)” in the
KJV
of Mark 5:39-41 (1st line); the
RV
corrects “damsel” to “child,” so as
to distinguish between the narrative of facts, and the homely address to the little girl
herself, in which, and in the following sentence,
is used. (See No. 1). See
CHILD
.
3.
(
&
, 3814) denotes “a young girl, or a female slave”; “damsel,”
KJV
,
in John 18:17; Acts 12:13; 16:16;
RV
“maid” in each case. See
BONDMAID
,
BONDWOMAN
,
MAID
,
MAIDEN
.
DANCE
(
A$ !
, 3738), (cf. Eng., “orchestra”), probably originally signified “to lift
up,” as of the feet; hence, “to leap with regularity of motion.” It is always used in the
middle voice, Matt. 11:17; 14:6; Mark 6:22; Luke 7:32. The performance by the daughter
of Herodias is the only clear instance of artistic dancing, a form introduced from Greek
customs.¶