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<p> '''''dōt''''' : "To dote" means either "to be weakminded" or "to be foolishly fond." In the latter sense it is employed in Ezekiel 23:5; in the former, in Jeremiah 50:36 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "shall become fools"); the King James Version [[Sirach]] 25:2 (the Revised Version (British and American) "lacking understanding"), and the King James Version 1 Timothy 6:4 (the Revised Version, margin "to be sick"; the King James Version margin"a fool"). </p>
 
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_59577" /> ==
        <p> DOTE, </p> <blockquote> 1. To be delirious to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers to be silly. </blockquote> <p> Time has made you dote, and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell. </p> <blockquote> 2. To be excessively in love usually with on or upon to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance. </blockquote> <p> What dust we dote on, when tis man we love. </p> <p> [[Aholah]] dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23 . </p> <blockquote> 3. To decay. </blockquote>
== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_77297" /> ==
        <div> 1: Νοσέω <div> <audio> </audio> <button> ► </button> </div> (Strong'S #3552 — Verb — noseo — nos-eh'-o ) </div> <p> signifies "to be ill, to be ailing," whether in body or mind; hence, "to be taken with such a morbid interest in a thing as is tantamount to a disease, to dote," 1 Timothy 6:4 (marg., "sick"). The primary meaning of "dote" is to be foolish (cp. Jeremiah 50:36 , the evident meaning of noseo, in this respect, is "to be unsound." </p>
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_3143" /> ==
        <p> '''''dōt''''' : "To dote" means either "to be weakminded" or "to be foolishly fond." In the latter sense it is employed in Ezekiel 23:5; in the former, in Jeremiah 50:36 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "shall become fools"); the King James Version [[Sirach]] 25:2 (the Revised Version (British and American) "lacking understanding"), and the King James Version 1 Timothy 6:4 (the Revised Version, margin "to be sick"; the King James Version margin"a fool"). </p>
==References ==
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        <ref name="term_59577"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/dote Dote from King James Dictionary]</ref>
       
        <ref name="term_77297"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/vine-s-expository-dictionary-of-nt-words/dote Dote from Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words]</ref>
       
        <ref name="term_3143"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/dote Dote from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
       
</references>

Revision as of 18:01, 8 October 2021

King James Dictionary [1]

DOTE,

1. To be delirious to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers to be silly.

Time has made you dote, and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell.

2. To be excessively in love usually with on or upon to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance.

What dust we dote on, when tis man we love.

Aholah dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23 .

3. To decay.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]

1: Νοσέω
<audio> </audio> <button> ► </button>
(Strong'S #3552 — Verb — noseo — nos-eh'-o )

signifies "to be ill, to be ailing," whether in body or mind; hence, "to be taken with such a morbid interest in a thing as is tantamount to a disease, to dote," 1 Timothy 6:4 (marg., "sick"). The primary meaning of "dote" is to be foolish (cp. Jeremiah 50:36 , the evident meaning of noseo, in this respect, is "to be unsound."

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]

dōt : "To dote" means either "to be weakminded" or "to be foolishly fond." In the latter sense it is employed in Ezekiel 23:5; in the former, in Jeremiah 50:36 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "shall become fools"); the King James Version Sirach 25:2 (the Revised Version (British and American) "lacking understanding"), and the King James Version 1 Timothy 6:4 (the Revised Version, margin "to be sick"; the King James Version margin"a fool").

References