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FABLE
$
(
, 3454) primarily signifies “speech, conversation.” The first syllable
comes from a root
$
, signifying “to close, keep secret, be dumb”; whence,
$
, “to
close” (eyes, mouth) and
$
, “a secret, a mystery”; hence, “a story, narrative,
fable, fiction” (Eng., “myth”). The word is used of gnostic errors and of Jewish and
profane fables and genealogies, in 1 Tim. 1:4; 4:7; 2 Tim. 4:4; Titus 1:14; of fiction, in 2
Pet. 1:16.¶
"$
is to be contrasted with
, “truth,” and with
, “a story, a narrative
purporting to set forth facts,” e.g., Matt. 28:15, a “saying” (i.e., an account, story, in
which actually there is a falsification of facts); Luke 5:15,
RV
, “report.”
FACE
1.
(
$
, 4383) denotes “the countenance,” lit., “the part towards the
eyes” (from
, “towards,”
, “the eye”), and is used (a) of the “face,” Matt. 6:16-17;
2 Cor. 3:7, 2nd part (
KJV
, “countenance”); in 2 Cor. 10:7, in the
RV
, “things that are
before your face” (
KJV
, “outward appearance”), the phrase is figurative of superficial
judgment; (b) of the look i.e., the “face,” which by its various movements affords an
index of inward thoughts and feelings. e g., Luke 9:51, 53; 1 Pet. 3:12; (c) the presence of
a person, the “face” being the noblest part, e.g., Acts 3:13,
RV
, “before the face of,”
KJV
,
“in the presence of”; 5:41, “presence”; 2 Cor. 2:10, “person”; 1 Thess. 2:17 (first part),
“presence”; 2 Thess. 1:9,
RV
, “face,”
KJV
, “presence”; Rev. 12:14, “face”; (d) the person
himself, e.g., Gal. 1:22; 1 Thess. 2:17 (second part); (e) the appearance one presents by
his wealth or poverty, his position or state, Matt. 22:16; Mark 12:14; Gal. 2:6; Jude 16;
(f) the outward appearance of inanimate things, Matt. 16:3; Luke 12:56; 21:35; Acts
17:26.
“To spit in a person’s face” was an expression of the utmost scorn and aversion, e.g.,
Matt. 26:67 (cf. 27:30; Mark 10:34; Luke 18:32). See
APPEARANCE
.
2.
(
7
, 3799) is primarily “the act of seeing”; then, (a) “the face”; of the body
of Lazarus, John 11:44; of the “countenance” of Christ in a vision, Rev. 1:16; (b) the
“outward appearance” of a person or thing, John 7:24. See
APPEARANCE
.¶
Note:
The phrase “face to face” translates two phrases in Greek: (1)
(
, “over against,” and No. 1), Acts 25:16; (2)
, lit., “mouth to
mouth” (
, “a mouth”), 2 John 12; 3 John 14. See
MOUTH
. (3) For
,
Acts 27:15,
RV
has “to face.”
FACTION, FACTIOUS
(or — ) (
#$ &
, 2052) denotes “ambition, self-seeking, rivalry,” self-will
being an underlying idea in the word; hence it denotes “party-making.” It is derived, not
¶ Indicates that all the NT occurrences of the Greek word under consideration are
mentioned under the heading or sub-heading.