Frame

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.

(2): ( n.) A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.

(3): ( n.) A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.

(4): ( n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.

(5): ( n.) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

(6): ( n.) Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.

(7): ( n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

(8): ( n.) A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched

(9): ( n.) The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.

(10): ( n.) Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.

(11): ( v. i.) To proceed; to go.

(12): ( n.) Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.

(13): ( n.) The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.

(14): ( n.) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.

(15): ( v. t.) To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.

(16): ( v. t.) To cause; to bring about; to produce.

(17): ( v. i.) To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.

(18): ( n.) In games: (a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points. (b) In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings forming a game.

(19): ( v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.

(20): ( v. t.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.

(21): ( v. t.) To provide with a frame, as a picture.

(22): ( v. t.) To support.

King James Dictionary

Frame, L armus, Eng. arm.

1. To fit or prepare and unite several parts in a regular structure or entire thing to fabricate by orderly construction and union of various parts as, to frame a house or other building. 2. To fit one thing to another to adjust to make suitable. 3. To make to compose as, to frame a law.

For thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

4. To regulate to adjust to shape to conform as, to frame our lives according to the rules of the gospel. 5. To form and digest by thought as, to frame ideas in the mind.

How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years!

6. To contrive to plan to devise as, to frame a project or design. 7. To invent to fabricate, in a bad sense as, to frame a story or lie.

Frame To contrive.  Judges 12:6 .

FRAME, n.

1. The timbers of an edifice fitted and joined in the form proposed, for the purpose of supporting the covering as the frame of a house, barn, bridge or ship. 2. Any fabric or structure composed of parts united as the frame of an ox or horse. So we say, the frame of the heavenly arch the frame of the world. 3. Any kind of case or structure made for admitting, inclosing or supporting things as the frame of a window, door, picture or looking glass. 4. Among printers, a stand to support the cases in which the types are distributed. 5. Among founders, a kind of ledge, inclosing a board, which being filled with wet sand, serves as a mold for castings. 6. A sort of loom on which linen, silk, &c. is stretched for quilting or embroidering. 7. Order regularity adjusted series or composition of parts. We say, a person is out of frame the mind is not in a good frame.

Your steady soul preserves her frame.

8. Form scheme structure constitution system as a frame of government. 9. Contrivance projection.

John the bastard, whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.

10. Shape form proportion.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Καταρτίζω (Strong'S #2675 — Verb — katartizo — kat-ar-tid'-zo )

"to fit, to render complete," is translated "have been framed" in  Hebrews 11:3 , of the worlds or ages. See Fit.

2: Συναρμολογέω (Strong'S #4883 — Verb — sunarmologeo — soon-ar-mol-og-eh'-o )

"to fit or frame together" (sun, "with," harmos, "a joint," lego, "to choose"), is used metaphorically of the church as a spiritual temple, the parts being "fitly framed together,"  Ephesians 2:21; as a body,  Ephesians 4:16 , RV, "fitly framed," (for AV, "fitly joined").

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Numbers 4:10 4:12 Exodus 25:25 25:27 1 Kings 7:28-36 2 Kings 16:17 Exodus 26:15-29 Exodus 35:11 1 Kings 7:4-5 Job 41:12 Psalm 103:14 Psalm 139:15

is a picturesque expression for speech ( Psalm 50:19 ). Most often frame means to plan or devise ( Psalm 94:20 ) or to act on plans ( Jeremiah 18:11 ).

Charles Buck Theological Dictionary

This word is used to denote any state of mind a man may be in; and, in a religious sense, is often connected with the word feeling, or used synonymously with it.

See Feeling "If our frames are comfortable, " says one, "we may make them the matter of our praise, but not of our pride; we may make them our pleasure, but not our portion; we may make them the matter of our encouragement, but not the ground of our security. Are our frames dark and uncomfortable? they should humble us, but not discourage us; they should quicken us, but not obstruct us in our application for necessary and suitable grace; they should make us see our own emptiness, but not make us suspect the fulness of Christ; they should make us see our own unworthiness, but not make us suspect the willingness of Christ; they should make us see our own weakness, but not cause us to suspect the strength of Christ; they should make us suspect our own hearts, but not the firmness and freeness of the promises."

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

frām  :

(1) יצר , yēcer (from root yācar , "to knead," mold with the fingers): "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust" ( Psalm 103:14 ).

(2) ערך , ‛ērekh (from root ‛ārakh , "to put in order," "to set in a row," "to arrange"): "goodly frame" ( Job 41:12 , the King James Version "goodly proportion").

(3) עצם , ‛ōcem "bony frame" "body": "My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret" ( Psalm 139:15 ), the King James Version "my substance," the King James Version margin "my strength, or, my body." See also Bone .

(4) מבנה , mibhneh , "building, frame" ( Ezekiel 40:2 , "frame of a city").

(5) נתן , nāthan , "to give," "to direct": "They will not frame their doings" ( Hosea 5:4 , the King James Version and the Revised Version, margin).

(6) συναρμολογέω , sunarmologéō , "to fit or join closely together" ( Ephesians 2:21 ).

(7) καταρτίζω , katartı́zō , "to fit out," "make fit," "adjust" ( Hebrews 11:3 ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the rendering in the A.V of יֵצֶר , Ye'-Tser, Form (usually spoken figuratively of Imagination), e.g. the bodily Formation ( Psalms 103:14; "thing framed,"  Isaiah 29:16); and מַבְנֶה , Mibneh', Building, e.g. of a city ( Ezekiel 40:2).