Foursquare
for'-skwar (rabha`; tetragonos):"Foursquare," meaning equal in length and breadth, not round, is the translation of rabha` (from obsolete rebha`, "four"); it occurs in the descr...
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Fourteen
for'-ten.SeeNUMBER.
Fourth Part
SeeFOUR.
Fowl
foul (`oph; peteinon): The word is now generally restricted to the larger, especially the edible birds, but formerly it denoted all flying creatures; inLe 11:20the King James Ve...
Fowl, Fatted
See preceding article.
Fowler
foul'-er (yoqesh): A professional birdcatcher. In the days previous to firearms, birds were captured with nets spread on the ground, in traps and snares. There was a method of t...
Fox
(shu`al; compare Arabic tha`lab (Jud 15:4;Ne 4:3;Ps 63:10;So 2:15;La 5:18;Eze 13:4); alopex (Mt 8:20;Lu 9:58;13:32)): The foxes of different parts of Europe and Western Asia dif...
Fragment
frag'-ment (klasma): "Fragment," a piece broken off, occurs only in the plural, in the accounts of the miracles of the Loaves in the Gospels and references thereto. It is the tr...
Frame
fram:(1) yetser (from root yatsar, "to knead," mold with the fingers): "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust" (Ps 103:14).(2) `erekh (from root `arakh, "to ...
Frankincense
frants'-in-sens (lebhonah, from root meaning "whiteness," referring to the milky color of the fresh juice:Ex 30:34;Le 2:1f,15 f; 5:11; 6:15; 24:7;Nu 5:15;1Ch 9:29;Ne 13:5,9;So 3...
Frankly
frank'-li (charizomai):"Frankly" in the sense of "freely," "readily," "graciously," occurs only in the translation of charizomai, properly "to gratify," "to do that which is gra...
Fray
fra (haradh, "to make afraid," "cause to tremble": the King James Version ofDe 28:26;Jer 7:33;Zec 1:21; the Revised Version (British and American) "frighten," "terrify").SeeWAR.
Freckled Spot
frek'-'-ld, (bohaq; Septuagint alphos, called in the Revised Version (British and American) "a tetter," and described as a bright shining spot (beharoth lebhenoth):These white e...
Free; Freedom
SeeCHOICE;WILL.
Freedman; Freeman
fred'-man, fre'-man: The term occurs in1Co 7:22;Col 3:11, andRe 6:15, and represents two slightly different words. In1Co 7:22the word is apeleutheros, "a freeman," one who was b...
Freely
fre'-li (chinnam, nedhabhah; dorean parrhesiazomai):"Freely" occurs in three senses:ts two slightly different words. In1Co 7:22the word is apeleutheros, "a freeman," one who was...
Freewill Offering
fre'-wil of'-er-ing. SeeSACRIFICE.
Freewoman
fre'-woom-an (eleuthera): Found but 4 times in the King James Version (Ga 4:22,23,10,31). In the first three passages it refers to Sarah, the freewoman and true wife of Abraham ...
Frequent
fre'-kwent (peris-soteros):"Frequent," adjective (from Latin frequens, frequentis, "crowded") occurs only once in the text of the King James Version, as the translation of peris...
Fresh
Adj.:The translation of hadhash, "new," "fresh" (Job 29:20, "My glory is fresh in me"); of leshadh, "sap," "moisture" (Nu 11:8, of the manna, "as the taste of fresh oil," the Re...
Fret, Fretting
(charah, ma'ar):To "fret" is from for (prefix) and etan, "to eat," "to consume." The word is both transitive and intransitive in King James Version:(1) transitive as translation...
Fried
frid.See BREAD, III, 3, (2); FOOD, II; LOCUST.
Friend; Friendship
frend, frend'-ship: In the Old Testament two words, variously translated "friend" or "companion": re`eh, indicating a mere associate, passing friend, neighbor, or companion; 'ah...
Friends; Chief Friends
(hoi philoi proton): Expressions used in 1 and 2 Macc to designate the favored courtiers of the Antiochi. Mattathias is promised enrollment among the king's Friends, to tempt hi...
Fringes
frin'-jis (tsitsith, "tassel, lock" (Nu 15:38,39), gedhilim, "twisted threads," "festoons" (De 22:12)): Tassels worn by the Israelites on the four corners of their garments as r...
Frock
frok (simlah; homolinon): The hempen frock, mentioned in Ecclesiasticus 40:4 as a mark of the lowly, was a simple garment consisting of a square piece of cloth wrapped around th...
Frog
(tsephardea`; compare Arabic dafda` (Ex 8:2 ff;Ps 78:45;105:30); batrachos (Re 16:13)): The references in Psalms, as well as in Exodus, are to the plague of flogs. InRe 16:13we ...