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4.
$
(
$
!
, 4883), “to fit or frame together” (
$
, “with,”
, “a joint, in building,” and
, “to choose”), is used metaphorically of the
various parts of the church as a building, Eph. 2:21, “fitly framed together”; also of the
members of the church as the body of Christ, 4:16,
RV
, “fitly framed … together.”¶
FIVE, FIVE TIMES
(
!
, 4002) is derived by some from words suggesting the fingers of a hand,
or a fist. The word is frequent in the Gospels.
8
, “five times,” is found in 2 Cor.
11:24;¶
, “five hundred,” in Luke 7:41; 1 Cor. 15:6;¶
, “five
thousand” (
, “a thousand”), in Matt. 14:21; 16:9 and corresponding passages. See
FIFTEENTH
,
FIFTH
,
FIFTY
.
FIX
(
$&
, 4741), “to set forth, make fast, fix,” is translated “fixed” in Luke
16:26, of the great gulf separating Hades or Sheol from the region called “Abraham’s
bosom.” See
ESTABLISH
.
FLAME, FLAMING
@
(
, 5395), akin to Lat.
7$
, “to shine,” is used apart from
$
, “fire,” in
Luke 16:24; with
$
, it signifies “a fiery flame,” lit., “a flame of fire,” Acts 7:30; 2
Thess. 1:8, where the fire is to be understood as the instrument of divine judgment; Heb.
1:7, where the meaning probably is that God makes His angels as active and powerful as
a “flame” of fire; in Rev. 1:14; 2:18; 19:12, of the eyes of the Lord Jesus as emblematic
of penetrating judgment, searching out evil.¶
FLATTERY (-ING)
(or
/
) (
&
, 2850), akin to
$
, “to flatter,” is used in 1 Thess.
2:5 of “words of flattery” (
RV
), adopted as “a cloke of coveousness,” i.e., words which
“flattery” uses, not simply as an effort to give pleasure, but with motives of self-interest.¶
FLAX
(
&
, 3043) primarily denotes “flax” (Eng., “linen”); then, that which is made
of it, “a wick of a lamp,” Matt. 12:20; several ancient mss. have the word in Rev. 15:6
(
KJV
only, “linen”). See
LINEN
.¶
FLEE, FLED
1.
$
(
"
, 5343), “to flee from or away” (Lat.,
7$ ;
Eng., “fugitive,” etc.),
besides its literal significance, is used metaphorically, (a) transitively, of “fleeing”
fornication, 1 Cor. 6:18; idolatry, 10:14; evil doctrine, questionings, disputes of words,
envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, wranglings, and the love of money, 1 Tim. 6:11;
youthful lusts, 2 Tim. 2:22; (b) intransitively, of the “flight” of physical matter, Rev.
16:20; 20:11; of death, 9:6. See
ESCAPE
.
2.
$
(
#
"
, 1628), “to flee away, escape” ( , “from,” and No. 1), is
translated “fled” in Acts 16:27 (
KJV
only); 19:16. In Heb. 12:25 the best mss. have this
verb instead of No. 1. See
ESCAPE
.