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2.
$
(
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, 4883), “to fit or frame together” (
$
, “with,”
, “a joint,”
, “to choose”), is used metaphorically of the church as a spiritual
temple, the parts being “fitly framed together,” Eph. 2:21; as a body, 4:16,
RV
, “fitly
framed,” (for
KJV
, “fitly joined”).¶
FRANKINCENSE
(
#
, 2030), from a Semitic verb signifying “to be white,” is a vegetable
resin, bitter and glittering, obtained by incisions in the bark of the
$
, “the
incense tree,” and especially imported through Arabia; it was used for fumigation at
sacrifices, Exod. 30:7, etc., or for perfume, Song of Sol., 3:6. The Indian variety is called
!
It was among the offerings brought by the wise men, Matt. 2:11. In Rev. 18:13 it
is listed among the commodities of Babylon. The “incense” of Rev. 8:3 should be
“frankincense.” Cf. INCENSE.¶
FRANKLY
Note:
In Luke 7:42, the verb
, “to forgive” (as a matter of grace), is
rendered “frankly forgave,” so as to bring out the force of the grace in the action. Older
versions had “forgave,” and to this the
RV
returns.
FRAUD
$
(
, 575 and
, 5302), “to keep back, deprive” ( , “from,”
$
, “to be lacking”), is used in Jas. 5:4, “is kept back by fraud” (some mss. have
, “to defraud”). The word is found in a papyrus writing of A.D. 42, of a bath
insufficiently warmed (Moulton and Milligan,
F !
). The Law required the prompt
payment of the laborer, Deut. 24:15.¶
FREE, FREEDOM, FREELY, FREEMAN, FREEDMAN,
FREEWOMAN
A. Adjective.
$
(
# " $
, 1658), primarily of “freedom to go wherever one likes,” is
used (a) of “freedom from restraint and obligation” in general, Matt. 17:26; Rom. 7:3; 1
Cor. 7:39,
RV
, “free,” of the second marriage of a woman; 9:1, 19; 1 Pet. 2:16; from the
Law, Gal. 4:26; from sin, John 8:36; with regard to righteousness, Rom. 6:20 (i.e.,
righteousness laid no sort of bond upon them, they had no relation to it); (b) in a civil
sense, “free” from bondage or slavery, John 8:33; 1 Cor. 7:21, 22, 2nd part (for v. 22, 1st
part, see C, No. 2); 12:13; Gal. 3:28; Eph. 6:8; Rev. 13:16; 19:18; as a noun, “freeman,”
Col. 3:11,
RV
; Rev. 6:15; “f reewoman,” Gal. 4:22, 23, 30, and v. 31.
RV
.¶
Notes:
(1) In Matt. 15:6 and Mark 7:11, the words “he shall be free,”
KJV
, have
nothing to represent them in the Greek. (2) In Heb. 13:5,
RV
, “be ye free from the love of
money,” is an abbreviated rendering of the adjective
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(“not loving money”)
with the noun
, “turn (of mind”); hence the marg., “let your turn of mind be free,
etc.,” for
KJV
, “let your conversation be without covetousness.”
B. Verb.