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1.
(
&
, 4654), “to deprive of light, to make dark,” is used in the NT in
the passive voice only, (a) of the heavenly bodies Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24; Rev. 8:12; (b)
metaphorically, of the mind, Rom. 1:21; 11:10; (some mss. have it in Luke 23:45).¶
2.
(
, 4656), “to darken,” is used (a) of the heavenly bodies, Rev. 9:2;
16:10; (b) metaphorically, of the mind, Eph. 4:18.¶
Note:
The phrase
, lit., “in an enigma,” is rendered “darkly” in 1 Cor.
13:12.
*
is akin to the verb
“to hint obscurely.” The allusion is to
Num. 12:8 (Sept.), “not in ( , “by means of”) dark speeches” (lit., “enigmas”); God’s
communications to Moses were not such as in the case of dreams, etc. After the same
analogy, what we see and know now is seen “darkly” compared with the direct vision in
the presence of God hereafter. The riddles of seeming obscurity in life will all be made
clear.
DART
(
!
, 956), akin to
, “to throw,” denotes “a missile, an arrow, javelin,
dart, etc.,” Eph. 6:16 (see
FIERY
).¶ Cf.
, “a stone’s throw or cast,” Luke 22:41,¶;
, “to sound” (to fathom the depth of water), Acts 27:28.¶
Note:
The noun
, “a dart,” is found in some texts in Heb. 12:20 (see
KJV
).¶
DASH
1.
(
$
, 4350) denotes “to beat upon or against, to strike against,
dash against” (
, “to or against,”
, “to strike, beat”); hence, of the foot, to
stumble, “dash” (
KJV
and
RV
), Matt. 4:6; Luke 4:11. See
BEAT
,
STUMBLE
.
2.
$
(
:)
, 4486), “to tear, rend, break,” is used of the action of a demon
upon a human victim, Mark 9:18, “dasheth … down,”
RV
; (
KJV
, marg.;
KJV
, text,
“teareth”); Luke 9:42,
RV
, “dashed … down” (
KJV
, “threw … down”). See
BREAK
, No. 6.
3.
(
# &
, 1474), “to beat level with the earth,” e.g., as a threshing floor
(cf.
, “the ground”), Luke 19:44;
RV
, “shall dash (thee) to the ground”; (
KJV
,
“shall lay (thee) even with the ground”). See
GROUND
.¶
DAUGHTER, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
1.
$
(
1 $
, 2364), “a daughter,” (etymologically, Eng., “daughter” is
connected), is used of (a) the natural relationship (frequent in the gospels); (b) spiritual
relationship to God, 2 Cor. 6:18, in the sense of the practical realization of acceptance
with, and the approval of, God (cf. Isa. 43:6), the only place in the NT where it applies to
spiritual relationship; (c) the inhabitants of a city or region, Matt. 21:5; John 12:15 (“of
Zion”); cf. Isa. 37:22; Zeph. 3:14 (Sept.); (d) the women who followed Christ to Calvary,
Luke 23:28; (e) women of Aaron’s posterity, Luke 1:5; (f) a female descendant of
Abraham, Luke 13:16.
2.
$
(
1 $
, 2365), a diminutive of No. 1, denotes “a little daughter,”
Mark 5:23; 7:25.¶