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2.
(
/
, 880), lit., “voiceless, or soundless” ( , negative, and
, “a
sound”), has reference to voice, Acts 8:32; 1 Cor. 12:2; 2 Pet. 2:16, while
has
reference to words. In 1 Cor. 14:10 it is used metaphorically of the significance of voices
or sounds, “without signification.”¶ In the Sept. Isa. 53:7.¶
3.
(
, 2974) denotes “blunted or dulled”; see
DEAF
.
B. Verb.
(
1
, 4623), from
, “silence, to be silent,” is used of Zacharias’
“dumbness,” Luke 1:20. See
PEACE
(
HOLD ONE
’
S
).
DUNG
1.
$
(
"
, 4657) denotes “refuse,” whether (a) “excrement,” that which
is cast out from the body, or (b) “the leavings of a feast,” that which is thrown away from
the table. Some have derived it from
$
(with
of k and s), “thrown to
dogs”; others connect it with a root meaning “shred.” Judaizers counted gentile Christians
as dogs, while they themselves were seated at God’s banquet. The apostle, reversing the
image, counts the Judaistic ordinances as refuse upon which their advocates feed, Phil.
3:8.¶
2.
(
$&
, 2874d), “manure,” Luke 13:8, used in the plural with
, “to
throw,” is translated by the verb “to dung.” Some mss. have the accusative case of the
noun
, “a dunghill” See below.¶
DUNGHILL
(
$&
, 2874), “a dunghill,” is found in Luke 14:35.¶
For
DURE
see under
WHILE
,
Note
1
For
DURING
see
Note
†
, p. 1
For
DURST
see
DARE
DUST
A. Nouns.
1.
$
, or
(
, 5522), from
, “to pour,” primarily, “earth dug out, an
earth heap,” then, “loose earth or dust,” is used in Mark 6:11 and Rev. 18:19.¶
2.
(
$
, 2868), “raised or flying dust” (
, “dust,”
$
, “to
stir up”), is found in Matt. 10:14; Luke 9:5; 10:11; Acts 13:51; 22:23.¶
B. Verb.
(
1
, 3039), primarily, “to winnow” (from
, “a winnowing-fan”),
hence, “to scatter” as chaff or dust, is used in Matt. 21:44 and Luke 20:18,
RV
, “scatter as
dust,”
KJV
, “grind to powder.” There are indications in the papyri writings that the word
came to denote “to ruin, to destroy.”
DUTY
d Derivatives or roots of other words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with with a “d”
following the number (for instance,
, a derivative of
5
, is 1096d).