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FETCH
(
!
, 3343), “to send after or for” (
, “after,”
, “to
send”), in the middle voice, is translated “fetch” in the
RV
of Acts 10:5 and 11:13. See
CALL
.
Notes:
(1) In Acts 16:37, the
RV
gives to
@
, “to bring out,” the adequate meaning
“let them … bring us out,” for the
KJV
, “let them fetch us out.” “Fetch” is not sufficiently
dignified for the just demand made. (2) For Acts 28:13,
KJV
, “fetched a compass,” see
CIRCUIT
.
FETTER
(
!
, 3976), “a fetter” (akin to
, “the instep,” and
$
, “a foot”; cf. Eng.
prefix
), occurs in Mark 5:4 and Luke 8:29. Cf FOOT.¶
FEVER (to be sick of) A. Noun.
$
(
$
, 4446), “feverish heat” (from
$
, “fire”), hence, “a fever,” occurs
in Matt. 8:15; Mark 1:31; John 4:52; Acts 28:8; in Luke 4:38, with
, “great, a high
fever”; v. 39. Luke, as a physician, uses the medical distinction by which the ancients
classified fevers into great and little.¶ In the Sept., Deut. 28:22.¶
B. Verb.
$
(
$!
, 4445) signifies “to be ill of a fever” (akin to A), Matt. 8:14; Mark
1:30.¶
FEW
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
A &
, 3641), used of number quantity, and size, denotes “few, little, small,
slight,” e.g., Matt. 7:14; 9:37; 15:34; 20:16; neuter plural, “a few things,” Matt. 25:21,
23; Rev. 2:14 (20 in some mss.); in Eph. 3:3, the phrase
, in brief, is translated “in
a few words.”
2.
$
(
$ "
, 1024) denotes (a) “short,” in regard to time, e.g., Heb. 2:7; or
distance, Acts 27:28; (b) “few,” in regard to quantity, Heb. 13:22, in the phrase
, lit., “by means of few,” i.e., “in few words.” See
LITTLE
.
Note:
In Luke 10:42, in the Lord’s words to Martha, many ancient authorities provide
the rendering, “but there is need of few things (neuter plural) or one.”
B. Adverb.
$
(
, 4935), “concisely, briefly, cut short” (from
$
, “to cut
in pieces,”
$
, used intensively,
, “to cut”), occurs in the speech of Tertullus, Acts
24:4.¶
FICKLENESS
(
# $&
, 1644) denotes lightness, levity, “fickleness,” 2 Cor. 1:17,
RV
(for
KJV
, “lightness”).¶ The corresponding adjective is
, “light,” Matt. 11:30; 2 Cor.
4:17.¶
FIDELITY