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FOUNTAIN
(
)
, 4077), “a spring or fountain,” is used of (a) “an artificial well,” fed by a
spring, John 4:6; (b) metaphorically (in contrast to such a well), “the indwelling Spirit of
God,” 4:14; (c) “springs,” metaphorically in 2 Pet. 2:17,
RV
, for
KJV
, “wells”; (d) “natural
fountains or springs,” Jas. 3:11, 12; Rev. 8:10; 14:7; 16:4; (e) metaphorically, “eternal
life and the future blessings accruing from it,” Rev. 7:17; 21:6; (f) “a flow of blood,”
Mark 5:29.¶
FOUR (-TH), FOURTEEN (-TH), FOUR HUNDRED
(
! $
, 5064), “four,” is not found in the NT outside the Gospels, the
Acts and Apocalypse; in the last it is very frequent.
, “fourth,” is found in Matt.
14:25; Mark 6:48 and seven times in the Apocalypse; also in Acts 10:30, “four days ago,”
lit., “from a fourth day.”
4
, “fourteen” (lit., “ten-four”), is found in Matt.
1:17; 2 Cor. 12:2; Gal. 2:1;¶
, “fourteenth” (lit., “four-and-tenth”),
Acts 27:27, 33;¶
, “four hundred,” Acts 5:36; 7:6; 13:20; Gal. 3:17.¶ In Acts
7:6 the 400 years refers to Abraham’s descendants and to the sojourning and the bondage.
This agrees with Gen. 15:13. In Exod. 12:40 the 430 years dates from the call of
Abraham himself. Likewise the giving of the Law was 430 years from the promise in
Gen. 12:3, which agrees with Gal. 3:17. In John 11:39
, lit., “a fourth day
(one),” is rendered “four days.”
FOURFOLD
(
$
, 5073), an adjective, is found in Luke 19:8.¶
FOURFOOTED
$
(
$1
, 5074), from
, “four” (used in compound words), and
$
,
“a foot,” is used of “beasts,” Acts 10:12; 11:6; Rom. 1:23.¶
FOURSCORE
(
A )
, 3589), from
, “eighth,” is found in Luke 2:37;
16:7.¶
FOURSQUARE
(
$1
, 5068), “four-cornered” (from
, see above, and
, “a
corner, or angle”), is found in Rev. 21:16.¶
For
FOWL
see
BIRD
FOX
@
(
0
, 258) is found in Matt. 8:20; Luke 9:58; metaphorically, of Herod, in
Luke 13:32.¶
For
FRAGMENTS
see
PIECE
, No. 4
FRAME (Verb)
1.
(
$ &
, 2675), “to fit, to render complete,” is translated “have been
framed” in Heb. 11:3, of the worlds or ages. See
FIT
.