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A. Noun.
(
/
, 438), “a blossom, flower” (used in certain names of flowers), occurs
in Jas. 1:10, 11; 1 Pet. 1:24 (twice).¶
B. Adjective.
$
(
% !$
, 5230), “past the bloom of youth” (from
$
, “beyond,”
and
, “the highest point of anything,” the full bloom of a flower: Eng., “acme”), is
used in 1 Cor. 7:36, “past the flower of her age”; Lightfoot prefers the rendering “of full
age.”
For
FLUX
see
DYSENTERY
FLUTE-PLAYERS
$
(
' )
, 834), “a flute-player” (from
$
, “to play the flute”), occurs in
Matt. 9:23 (
KJV
, “minstrel”), and Rev. 18:22 (
KJV
“pipers”). In the papyri writings of the
time the word is chiefly associated with religious matters (Moulton and Milligan,
F !
). Cf.
MINSTREL
.¶
FLY
(
!
, 4072), “to fly” (the root of which is seen in
and
$@
, “a
wing,”
, “a feather,” etc.), is confined to the Apocalypse, 4:7; 8:13; 12:14; 14:6;
19:17. Some mss. have the verb
, a frequentative form.¶
FOAL
$
(
,
, 5207), “a son,” primarily signifying the relation of offspring to parent, is
used of the “foal” of an ass in Matt. 21:5. See
SON
.
FOAM
A. Verbs.
1.
(
$&
, 875) denotes “to foam at the mouth” (akin to
, “foam”; see
B.) Mark 9:18, 20.¶
2.
(
# $&
, 1890), “to foam out, or up” ( , “up,” and No. 1), is used
metaphorically in Jude 13, of the impious libertines, who had crept in among the saints,
and “foamed” out their own shame with swelling words. The metaphor is drawn from the
refuse borne on the crest of waves and cast up on the beach.¶
B. Noun.
(
$
, 876), “foam,” occurs in Luke 9:39, where it is used with the
preposition
, “with,” lit., “(teareth him) with (accompanied by) foam.”¶
FOE
(
# $
, 2190), an adjective signifying “hated, hateful, or hostile,” is used
also as a noun denoting “an enemy,” translated “foes” in Matt. 10:36 and the
KJV
of Acts
2:35. See
ENEMY
.
FOLD
$
(
' )
, 833) first signifies “an open courtyard” before a house; then, “an
enclosure” in the open, “a sheepfold,” John 10:1, 16. In the papyri “the word is extremely