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Notes:
(1) For Heb. 10:27,
RV
, see
FIRE
(cf. FIERCE, B, No. 2). (2) For
$
, “a
fiery trial,” 1 Pet. 4:12, (lit., “a burning,” as in Rev. 18:9, 18), “a refining, or trial by
fire,” see
TRIAL
.
FIFTEEN, FIFTEENTH
(
!
, 1178), lit., “ten-five,” occurs in John 11:18; Acts 27:28; Gal.
1:18.¶
Notes:
(1) In Acts 7:14, “threescore and fifteen” translates a different numeral, lit.,
“seventy-five.” This refers to all Joseph’s kindred whom he sent for. There is no
discrepancy between this and Gen. 46:26. The Sept. translations give the number as 75 in
Gen. 46:27 and in Exod. 1:5, and this Stephen follows, being a Grecian Jew. (2) The
corresponding ordinal numeral
, “fifteenth” (lit., “five and tenth”) is
found In Luke 3:1, where Luke dates the reign of Tiberias from the period of his joint
rule with Augustus.
FIFTH
(
!
, 3991), akin to
, “five,” is found only in the Apocalypse, 6:9;
9:1; 16:10; 21:20.¶
FIFTY
(
)
, 4004) is found in Luke 7:41; 16:6; John 8:57; 21:11; Acts
13:20; in Mark 6:40 with
(in the most authentic mss.), according to, “by fifties”; in
Luke 9:14, with
, “up,” used distributively, “fifty each,”
RV
(Luke adds
,
“about”).¶
FIG
1.
$
(
, 4810) denotes “the ripe fruit of a
$
, a fig-tree” (see below; cf.
No. 2), Matt. 7:16; Mark 11:13; Luke 6:44; Jas. 3:12.¶
2.
$
(
7
, 3653) denotes “an unripe fig,” which grows in winter and
usually falls off in the spring, Rev. 6:13.¶ In the Sept. Song of Sol., 2:13.¶
FIG TREE
$
or
$
(
, 4808), “a fig tree,” is found in Matt. 21:19, 20, 21; 24:32; Mark
11:13, 20, 21; 13:28; Luke 13:6, 7; 21:29; John 1:48, 50, Jas. 3:12; Rev. 6:13 (see
$
,
above).¶
Note:
A “fig tree” with leaves must have young fruits already, or it will be barren for
the season. The first figs ripen in late May or early June. The tree in Mark 11:13 should
have had fruit, unripe indeed, but existing. In some lands “fig trees” bear the early fruit
under the leaves and the later fruit above the leaves. In that case the leaves were a sign
that there should have been fruit, unseen from a distance, underneath the leaves. The
condemnation of this fig tree lay in the absence of any sign of fruit.
FIGHT
A. Nouns.