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Note:
For the synonymous word
, “a country, land,” see
COUNTRY
. Moulton and
Milligan point out that
is frequent in the Sept., and in the Synoptic Gospels, but
that Luke uses
especially, and that possibly
was a favorite word with
translators from Hebrew and Aramaic.
For
FARTHER SIDE
,
Mark 10:1
, see
BEYOND
, No. 2
FARTHING
1.
(
1$
, 787), a diminutive of the Latin
, was one-tenth of a
drachma, or one-sixteenth of a Roman
$
, i.e., about three farthings, Matt. 10:29;
Luke 12:6.¶
2.
(
$1
, 2835) was the Latin
%$
, “the fourth part of an as”
(see No. 1), about two thirds of a farthing, Matt. 5:26; Mark 12:42.¶
FASHION
A. Nouns.
1.
(
*
, 1491), “that which is seen, an appearance,” is translated “fashion” in
Luke 9:29, of the Lord’s countenance at the Transfiguration. See
APPEARANCE
, and
Note
under
IMAGE
, No. 1.
2.
(
$
, 4383), “the face, countenance,” is translated “fashion” in
Jas. 1:11, of the flower of grass. See
COUNTENANCE
. Cf. v. 24, “what manner of man,”
which translates
, “of what sort.”
3.
(
, 4976), “a figure, fashion” (akin to
, “to have”), is translated
“fashion” in 1 Cor. 7:31, of the world, signifying that which comprises the manner of life,
actions, etc. of humanity in general; in Phil. 2:8 it is used of the Lord in His being found
“in fashion” as a man, and signifies what He was in the eyes of men, “the entire
outwardly perceptible mode and shape of His existence, just as the preceding words
, “form,” and
, “likeness,” describe what He was in Himself as Man”
(Gifford on the Incarnation, p. 44). “Men saw in Christ a human form, bearing, language,
action, mode of life … in general the state and relations of a human being, so that in the
entire mode of His appearance He made Himself known and was recognized as a man”
(Meyer).
4.
$
(
"
, 5179), “a type, figure, example,” is translated “fashion” in the
KJV
of
Acts 7:44,
RV
, “figure,” said of the tabernacle. See
ENSAMPLE
.
B. Adverb.
$
(
>
, 3779), “thus, so, in this way,” is rendered “on this fashion” in Mark
2:12. See
EVEN
, No. 5,
LIKEWISE
,
MANNER
,
SO
,
THUS
,
WHAT
.
C. Verbs.
1.
(
&
, 3345), “to change in fashion or appearance”
(
, “after,” here implying change,
, see A, No. 3), is rendered “shall fashion
anew” in Phil. 3:21,
RV
;
KJV
, “shall change,” of the bodies of believers as changed or
raised at the Lord’s return; in 2 Cor. 11:13, 14, 15, the
RV
uses the verb “to fashion
oneself,” for
KJV
, to transform, of Satan and his human ministers, false apostles; in 1 Cor.