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testimony to be borne in its own (
KJV
, ‘due’) times (seasons)”; 6:15, “in its own (
)
times (seasons)”; similarly in Titus 1:3. See
BUSINESS
, B.
Note:
For
@
, “the due reward,” see
REWARD
,
Note
(1).
B. Verbs.
1.
(
A &
, 3784) signifies “to owe, to be indebted,” especially financially,
Matt. 18:30,
RV
, “that which was due”; 18:34, “all that was due.” See
BEHOVE
,
BOUND
(
TO BE
).
2. (
, 1163), an impersonal verb signifying “it is necessary,” is translated “was
due” in Rom. 1:27,
RV
(
KJV
, “was meet”). See
BEHOVE
.
C. Noun.
(
A )
, 3782), akin to B, No. 1, is rendered “dues” in Rom. 13:7. In 1 Cor.
7:3,
RV
, it is translated “her due” (the
KJV
, “due benevolence” follows another reading).
Notes:
(1) In the phrases “in due season” in Matt. 24:45; Luke 12:42; Rom. 5:6 (lit.,
“according to time”), and “in due time,” 1 Pet. 5:6, there is no word representing “due” in
the original, and the phrases are, lit., “in season,” “in time.”
(2) For the phrase “born out of due time,” in 1 Cor. 15:8, see
BEGET
, B, No. 2.
DULL
A. Adjective.
(
$
, 3576), “slow, sluggish, indolent, dull” (the etymology is uncertain),
is translated “dull” in Heb. 5:11 (in connection with
, “hearing”; lit., “in hearings”);
“sluggish,” in 6:12. See
SLOTHFUL
,
SLUGGISH
.¶ In the Sept., Prov. 22:29.¶ Cf.
, “slow of heart” (
, “the heart), Prov. 12:8.¶
Note:
In Luke 24:25 “slow (of heart)” translates the synonymous word
$
. Of
these Trench says (
- !
Sec.civ), “
0 $
differs from the words with which it is here
brought into comparison, in that no moral fault or blame is necessarily involved in it; so
far indeed is it from this, that of the three occasions on which it is used in the NT two are
in honor; for to be ‘slow’ to evil things, to rash speaking, or to anger (Jas. 1:19, twice), is
a grace, and not the contrary.… There is a deeper, more inborn sluggishness implied in
, and this bound up as it were in the very life, more than in either of the other
words of this group.” Trench compares and contrasts
, “idle,” but this word is not
strictly synonymous with the other two.¶
B. Adverb.
(
$!
, 917), “heavily, with difficulty” (
$
, “heavy”), is used with
$
, “to hear,” in Man. 13:15, and Acts 28:27 (from Isa. 6:10), lit., “to hear heavily, to
be dull of hearing.”¶ In the Sept., Gen. 31:35 (lit., “bear it not heavily”); Isa. 6:10.¶
DUMB
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
/
, 216), lit., “speechless” ( , negative, and
, “to speak”), is
found in Mark 7:37; 9:17, 25.¶ In the Sept., Ps. 38:13.¶