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drowned,” in Matt. 18:6,
KJV
(
RV
, “should be sunk”); elsewhere in 14:30, “(beginning) to
sink.” See
SINK
.¶
DRUNK, (-EN, be), DRUNKARD, DRUNKENNESS
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
"
, 3184) signifies “to be drunk with wine” (from
$
, “mulled
wine”; hence Eng., “mead, honey-wine”); originally it denoted simply “a pleasant drink.”
For John 2:10 see under
DRINK
. The verb is used of “being intoxicated” in Matt. 24:49;
Acts 2:15; 1 Cor. 11:21; 1 Thess. 5:7 ; metaphorically, of the effect upon men of
partaking of the abominations of the Babylonish system, Rev. 17:2; of being in a state of
mental “intoxication,” through the shedding of men’s blood profusely, v. 6.¶
2.
$
(
"
, 3182) signifies “to make drunk, or to grow drunk” (an
inceptive verb, marking the process or the state expressed in No. 1), “to become
intoxicated,” Luke 12:45; Eph. 5:18; 1 Thess. 5:7 .¶
B. Adjective.
$
(
!
, 3183), “drunken” (cf. No. 2), is used as noun, in the singular, in 1
Cor. 5:11, and in the plural, in 6:10, “drunkard,” “drunkards.”¶
C. Noun.
(
!
, 3178), “strong drink” (akin to
$
, “wine,” see under A. 1, above),
denotes “drunkenness, habitual intoxication,” Luke 21:34; Rom. 13:13; Gal. 5:21.¶
DRY
A. Adjectives.
1.
@
(
$
, 3584) is used (a) naturally, of “dry” land, Heb. 11:29; or of land in
general, Matt. 23:15, “land”; or of physical infirmity, “withered,” Matt. 12:10; Mark 3:3;
Luke 6:6, 8; John 5:3; (b) figuratively, in Luke 23:31, with reference to the spiritual
“barrenness” of the Jews, in contrast to the character of the Lord. Cf. Ps. 1:3; Isa. 56:3;
Ezek. 17:24; 20:47. See
LAND
,
WITHERED
.¶
2.
$
(
/
$
, 504), “waterless” ( , negative, , euphonic,
$
, “water”), is
rendered “dry” in Matt. 12:43,
KJV
, and Luke 11:24 (
RV
, “waterless”); “without water” in
2 Pet. 2:17 and Jude 12. See
WATER
.¶
B. Verb.
@
(
$ &
, 3583), akin to A. 1, “to dry, dry up, make dry, wither,” is
translated “dried” (of physical infirmity), in Mark 5:29; of a tree, in the
KJV
of Mark
11:20 (
RV
, “withered away”); of water, in Rev. 16:12. It is translated “ripe” (
RV
,
“overripe”) in Rev. 14:15, of a harvest (used figuratively of the gathered nations against
Jerusalem at the end of this age); “pineth away,” in Mark 9:18. See
OVERRIPE
,
PINE
AWAY
,
RIPE
,
WITHER
.
DUE
A. Adjective.
(
5
, 2398), “one’s own,” is applied to
, “a season,” in Gal. 6:9, “in due
season,” i.e., in the season divinely appointed for the reaping. So in 1 Tim. 2:6, “the