Difference between revisions of "Fine"

<p> ''''' fı̄n ''''' (adj., from Latin <i> finire </i> , "to finish"): Indicates superior quality. Only in a few instances does "fine" represent a separate word: (1) <i> ''''' ṭōbh ''''' </i> , "good," qualifies gold (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 3:5 , &nbsp;2 Chronicles 3:8 , "fine gold"; compare &nbsp;Genesis 2:12 , "good"); fine gold (&nbsp;Lamentations 4:1 , the King James Version "most fine gold," the Revised Version (British and American) "most pure gold," literally, "good fine gold"), copper (&nbsp;Ezra 8:27 , the Revised Version (British and American) "fine bright brass"); <i> ''''' ṭabh ''''' </i> , [[Aramaic]] (&nbsp;Daniel 2:32 , "fine gold"). (2) <i> ''''' pāz ''''' </i> , "refined" (&nbsp;Song of [[Solomon]] 5:11 , "the most fine gold"). (3) <i> ''''' ḥēlebh ''''' </i> , "fatness," "the best of any kind"; compare &nbsp;Genesis 45:18; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 32:14 , etc. (&nbsp;Psalm 81:16 , "the finest of the wheat," the Revised Version, margin [[Hebrew]] "fat of wheat"). (4) <i> ''''' sārı̄ḳ ''''' </i> , "fine combed" (&nbsp;Isaiah 19:9 , "fine flax," the Revised Version (British and American) "combed flax"). </p> <p> In other places it expresses a quality of the substantive: <i> ''''' kethem ''''' </i> , "fine gold" (&nbsp;Job 31:24; &nbsp;Daniel 10:5 , the Revised Version (British and American) "pure gold"); <i> ''''' pāz ''''' </i> , used as a noun for refined gold (&nbsp;Job 28:17; &nbsp;Psalm 19:10; &nbsp;Proverbs 8:19; &nbsp;Isaiah 13:12; &nbsp;Lamentations 4:2 ); <i> ''''' ḥārūc ''''' </i> , "fine gold" (&nbsp;Proverbs 3:14; compare &nbsp;Psalm 68:13 , "yellow gold"); <i> ''''' ṣōleth ''''' </i> , "flour," rendered "fine flour," rolled or crushed small (&nbsp;Leviticus 2:1 , &nbsp;Leviticus 2:4 , &nbsp;Leviticus 2:5 , &nbsp;Leviticus 2:7 , etc.); <i> ''''' semı́dalis ''''' </i> , "the finest wheaten flour" (&nbsp;Revelation 18:13 ); <i> ''''' ḳemaḥ ṣōleth ''''' </i> , "fine meal" (&nbsp;Genesis 18:6 ); <i> ''''' ṣādhı̄n ''''' </i> , "linen garment" (Septuagint σινδον , <i> ''''' sindō̇n ''''' </i> , &nbsp;Proverbs 31:24 the King James Version; &nbsp; Isaiah 3:23 ); <i> ''''' shēsh ''''' </i> , "white," "fine linen" (&nbsp;Genesis 41:42; &nbsp;Exodus 25:4 , etc.); in &nbsp;Proverbs 31:22 the King James Version has "silk"; <i> ''''' shēshı̄ ''''' </i> (&nbsp;Ezekiel 16:13 , "fine flour"); <i> ''''' 'ēṭūn ''''' </i> , "what is twisted or spun," "yarn" (&nbsp;Proverbs 7:16 the King James Version, "fine linen of Egypt" the Revised Version (British and American) "yarn of Egypt"); <i> ''''' būc ''''' </i> , "fine white cloth," "cotton or linen," "fine linen" (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 4:21; &nbsp;Ezekiel 27:16 , etc.; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 5:12 , King James Version "white," the Revised Version (British and American) "fine"); <i> ''''' bússos ''''' </i> , "byssus," "linen" from <i> ''''' būc ''''' </i> [[Septuagint]] for which, &nbsp;2 Chronicles 2:14; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 3:14 ), deemed very fine and precious, worn only by the rich (&nbsp;Luke 16:19; &nbsp;Revelation 18:12 ); <i> ''''' bússinos ''''' </i> , "byssine" made of fine linen, Septuagint for <i> ''''' būc ''''' </i> (1 Ch 5:27) (&nbsp;Revelation 18:16 , "clothed in fine linen," the Revised Version (British and American) "arrayed," &nbsp;Revelation 19:8 , &nbsp;Revelation 19:14 ); <i> ''''' sindōn ''''' </i> , "fine linen" (Mk 5:46, "He bought fine linen," the Revised Version (British and American) "a linen cloth"; compare &nbsp;Mark 14:51 , &nbsp;Mark 14:52; &nbsp;Matthew 27:59; &nbsp;Luke 23:53 ); it was used for wrapping the body at night, also for wrapping round dead bodies; <i> ''''' sindōn ''''' </i> is Septuagint for <i> ''''' ṣādhı̄n ''''' </i> (&nbsp;Judges 14:12 , &nbsp;Judges 14:13; &nbsp;Proverbs 31:24 ); <i> ''''' chalkolı́banon ''''' </i> (&nbsp;Revelation 1:15; &nbsp;Revelation 2:18 , the King James Version "fine brass"). </p> <p> The meaning of this word has been much discussed; <i> ''''' chálkos ''''' </i> is "brass" in Greek (with many compounds), and <i> ''''' libanos ''''' </i> is the Septuagint for <i> ''''' lebhōnāh ''''' </i> , "frankincense," which word was probably derived from the root <i> ''''' lābhan ''''' </i> , "to burn"; this would give <i> glowing brass </i> , "as if they burned in a furnace"; in &nbsp;Daniel 10:6 it is <i> ''''' nehōsheth ḳālāl ''''' </i> , the King James Version "polished brass," the Revised Version (British and American) "burnished" ( <i> ''''' ḳālal ''''' </i> is "to glow"). Plumptre deemed it a hybrid word composed of the Greek <i> ''''' chalkos ''''' </i> , "brass," and the Hebrew <i> ''''' lābhān ''''' </i> , "white," a technical word, such as might be familiar to the Ephesians; the Revised Version (British and American) has "burnished brass"; Weymouth, "silver-bronze when it is white-hot in a furnace"; the whiteness being expressed by the second half of the Greek word. See Thayer's <i> Lexicon </i> (s.v.). </p> <p> In [[Apocrypha]] we have "fine linen," <i> ''''' bussinos ''''' </i> (1 [[Esdras]] 3:6), "fine bread"; the adjective <i> ''''' katharós ''''' </i> , separate (Judith 10:5, the Revised Version, margin "pure bread"); "fine flour" (Ecclesiasticus 35:2; 38:11); <i> ''''' semı́dalis ''''' </i> (Bel and the [[Dragon]] verse 3; 2 Macc 1:8, the Revised Version (British and American) "meal offering"). </p>