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37781 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Eye.5
… and spiritual abilities, acts and states. So the “opening of the eyes” in Genesis 3:5 (the first occurrence) means to become autonomous by setting standards of …
37782 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Face.3
… a spiritual being and ought not to be depicted by an image or any likeness whatever ( Exodus 20:4 ). Therefore, there was no image or likeness of God in the innermost …
37783 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Find.4
… a spiritual or mental sense: “Mine hand had gotten much …” ( Job 31:25 ). Laban tells Jacob: “… If I have found favor in thine eyes, [stay with me] …” ( Genesis 30:27 ). Laban is asking …
37784 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Firstborn.3
… meant spiritual and social leadership and a double portion of the father’s possessions—or twice what all the other sons received ( Deuteronomy 21:17 ). He could …
37785 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Forsake.7
… a spiritual or intellectual sense: “Cease from anger, and forsake wrath …” ( Psalms 37:8 ).
37786 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Go Down.6
… higher spiritual plane. To stand before God is to stand in His presencebefore His throne, on a higher spiritual plane. Yârad may thus be used of the humbled …
37787 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. God.14
… and spiritual lives ( Genesis 17:1 ). The true covenantal service of ’êl shadday, therefore, was not cultic or ritualistic, but moral and ethical in character.
37788 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Heal.5
… deep spiritual hurts of the people: “They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace” ( Jeremiah …
37789 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Hear.9
… and spiritual. Spiritually, one may “hear” God’s Word ( Numbers 24:4 ), or “learn” it from God. Conversely, God told Abraham that He had “heard” his prayer and would act …
37790 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Humble (Self).5
… a spiritual truth: “… The high [trees] of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled” ( Isaiah 10:33 ), or “Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain …
37791 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Load.3
… of spiritual “loads” one is carrying: “For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me” ( Psalms 38:4 ).
37792 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Look.3
… a spiritual and inner apprehension. Thus, Samuel is told by God: “Look not on his countenance …” ( 1 Samuel 16:7 ) as he searched for a king among Jesse’s sons. The sense …
37793 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Loose Conduct.3
… or spiritual adultery may be represented by zimmâh ( Psalms 119:150; cf. Ezekiel 16:12 - 28 ). A plan or scheme identified by the word is, therefore, a “harlotrous” plan …
37794 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Make (Cut) a Covenant.5
… of spiritual and social extermination. A person “cut off” in this manner is not necessarily killed but may be driven out of the family and removed from the blessings …
37795 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Man.5
… essentially spiritual; he has an invisible and immortal aspect which is simple or indivisible.) Other elements of this image are his mind and will, intellectual …
37796 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Man.6
… through spiritual union with the Christ, the second Adam ( Romans 5:12 - 21 ). In some later passages of Scripture ’âdâm is difficult to distinguish from ‘ish —man …
37797 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Needy Person.6
… one’s spiritual condition before God: “Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because …
37798 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Poor (Person), Weak (Person).6
… to spiritual oppression as in Psalms 22:24 : “For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him.…” Outward …
37799 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Poor (Person), Weak (Person).14
… ) of spiritual poverty (in such cases it is sometimes paralleled to ‘ebyon ): “Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of …
37800 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Redeem.8
… places spiritual redemption in parallel with physical redemption. For example: “Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: // deliver me because of mine enemies” ( Psalms …