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CAUSE
,
CHARGE
. (2, For
, “a loss,” translated fault in 1 Cor. 6:7,
KJV
, see
DEFECT
(
RV
). (3 For
, “a false step, a trespass,” translated “fault” in Gal. 6:1,
KJV
, and
“faults” in Jas. 5:16,
KJV
, see
SIN
, A, No. 2,
Note
(1),
TRESPASS
.
B. Adjective.
(
/
, 273), “without blame,” is rendered “faultless,” in Heb. 8:7. See
BLAMELESS
.
Note:
For
, “without blemish,” rendered “faultless,” i,e., without any
shortcoming, in Jude 24, and “without fault” in Rev. 14:5,
KJV
, see
BLEMISH
.
C. Verbs.
1.
(
!
, 3201), “to blame,” is translated “to find fault” in Rom.
9:19 and Heb. 8:8. Some mss. have the verb in Mark 7:2. See
BLAME
.
2.
(
# !
, 1651), “to convict, reprove, rebuke,” is translated “shew (him)
his fault” in Matt. 18:15. See
CONVICT
.
Note:
In 1 Pet. 2:20,
KJV
, the verb
, “to sin” (strictly, to miss the mark) is
rendered “for your faults.” The
RV
corrects to “when ye sin (and are buffeted for it).”
FAVOR, FAVORED
A. Noun.
(
1$
, 5485) denotes (a) objectively, “grace in a person, graciousness,” (b)
subjectively, (1) “grace on the part of a giver, favor, kindness,” (2) “a sense of favor
received, thanks.” It is rendered “favor” in Luke 1:30; 2:52; Acts 2:47; 7:10, 46; 24:27
and 25:9,
RV
(for
KJV
, “pleasure”); 25:3; see more fully under
GRACE
.
B. Verb.
(
$
, 5487), akin to A, to endow with
, primarily signified “to
make graceful or gracious,” and came to denote, in Hellenistic Greek, “to cause to find
favor,” Luke 1:28, “highly favored” (marg., “endued with grace”); in Eph. 1:6, it is
translated “made … accepted,”
KJV
, “freely bestowed,”
RV
(lit., “graced”); it does not
here mean to endue with grace. Grace implies more than favor; grace is a free gift, favor
may be deserved or gained.¶
FEAR, FEARFUL, FEARFULNESS
A. Nouns.
1.
(
, 5401) first had the meaning of “flight,” that which is caused by
being scared; then, “that which may cause flight,” (a) “fear, dread, terror,” always with
this significance in the four Gospels; also e.g., in Acts 2:43; 19:17; 1 Cor. 2:3; 1 Tim.
5:20 (lit., “may have fear”); Heb. 2:15; 1 John 4:18; Rev. 11:11; 18:10, 15; by
metonymy, that which causes “fear,” Rom. 13:3; 1 Pet. 3:14,
RV
, “(their) fear,”
KJV
“(their) terror,” an adaptation of the Sept. of Isa. 8:12, “fear not their fear”; hence some
take it to mean, as there, “what they fear,” but in view of Matt. 10:28, e.g., it seems best
to understand it as that which is caused by the intimidation of adversaries; (b) “reverential
fear,” (1) of God, as a controlling motive of the life, in matters spiritual and moral, not a
mere “fear” of His power and righteous retribution, but a wholesome dread of displeasing
Him, a “fear” which banishes the terror that shrinks from His presence, Rom. 8:15, and
which influences the disposition and attitude of one whose circumstances are guided by