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Note:
Whereas the everlasting power and divinity of God are manifest in creation, His
“Fatherhood” in spiritual relationship through faith is the subject of NT revelation, and
waited for the presence on earth of the Son, Matt. 11:27; John 17:25. The spiritual
relationship is not universal, John 8:42, 44 (cf. John 8:12 and Gal. 3:26).
B. Adjectives.
1.
(
$-
, 3971) signifies “of one’s fathers,” or “received from one’s
fathers” (akin to A), Acts 22:3; 24:14; 28:17.¶ In the Sept., Prov. 27:10.¶
2.
(
$
, 3967), “from one’s fathers, or ancestors,” is said of that which
is handed down from one’s “forefathers,” Gal. 1:14.¶
3.
(
1 $
, 540), “without father” ( , negative, and
), signifies, in Heb.
7:3, with no recorded genealogy.¶
4.
(
$ $1
, 3970), “handed down from one’s fathers”
(
, and
, “to hand down”), is used in 1 Pet. 1:18.¶
FATHER-IN-LAW
(
$
, 3995), “a wife’s father” (from a root signifying “a bond,
union”), is found in John 18:13.¶
FATHERLESS
(
A$
, 3737), properly, “an orphan,” is rendered “fatherless” in Jas.
1:27; “desolate” in John 14:18, for
KJV
, “comfortless. See
COMFORTLESS
.¶
FATHOM
$
(
A$ 1
, 3712), akin to
, “to stretch,” is the length of the outstretched
arms, about six feet, Acts 27:28 (twice).¶
FATLING, FATTED
1.
(
, 4619), “fattened,” lit., “fed with grain” (fiom
$
, “to feed, to
fatten”), is used as a neuter plural noun, “fatlings,” in Matt. 22:4.¶ Cf.
, under
FASTING
. 2.
$
(
, 4618), “fed” (with grain), denotes “fatted,” Luke 15:23,
27, 30.¶
FATNESS
(
, 4096), from
, “fat,” from a root,
, signifying “swelling,” is
used metaphorically in Rom. 11:17. The gentile believer had become a sharer in the
spiritual life and blessing bestowed by divine covenant upon Abraham and his
descendants as set forth under the figure of “the root of (not ‘and’) the ‘fatness’ of the
olive tree.Ӧ
FAULT, FAULTLESS
A. Noun.
(
5
, 158), properly the neuter of
, causative of, responsible for, is
used as a noun, “a crime, a legal ground for punishment,” translated “fault” in Luke 23:4,
14; in v. 22, cause. See
AUTHOR
,
CAUSE
.
Notes:
(1) For
, rendered “fault” in John
18:38; l9:4, 6,
KJV
(like
, denoting “a ground for punishment”), see
ACCUSATION
,