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constructs out of the material which it consumes. The rendering “spider” (marg.) seems
an attempt to explain a difficulty.
MOTH-EATEN
(
$
, 4598), from
, “a moth,” and
, “to eat,” is used in
Jas. 5:2.¶ In the Sept. Job 13:28.¶
MOTHER
1.
(
) $
, 3384) is used (a) of the natural relationship, e.g., Matt. 1:18; 2 Tim.
1:5; (b) figuratively, (1) of “one who takes the place of a mother,” Matt. 12:49, 50; Mark
3:34, 35; John 19:27; Rom. 16:13; 1 Tim. 5:2; (2) of “the heavenly and spiritual
Jerusalem,” Gal. 4:26, which is “free” (not bound by law imposed externally, as under the
Law of Moses), “which is our mother” (
RV
), i.e., of Christians, the metropolis, mother-
city, used allegorically, just as the capital of a country is “the seat of its government, the
center of its activities, and the place where the national characteristics are most fully
expressed”; (3) symbolically, of “Babylon,” Rev. 17:5, as the source from which has
proceeded the religious harlotry of mingling pagan rites and doctrines with the Christian
faith.
Note:
In Mark 16:1 the article, followed by the genitive case of the name “James,” the
word “mother” being omitted, is an idiomatic mode of expressing the phrase “the mother
of James.”
2.
, or
(
$ H
, 3389) denotes “a matricide” (No. 1, and
, to smite); 1 Tim. 1:9, “murderers of mothers”; it probably has, however, the
broader meaning of “smiters” (
RV
, marg.), as in instances elsewhere than the NT.¶
3.
(
) $
, 282), “without a mother” ( , negative, and No. 1), is used in Heb.
7:3, of the Genesis record of Melchizedek, certain details concerning him being
purposely omitted, in order to conform the description to facts about Christ as the Son of
God. The word has been found in this sense in the writings of Euripides the dramatist and
Herodotus the historian. See also under
FATHER
.¶
MOTHER-IN-LAW
(
$1
, 3994), the feminine of
(“a father-in-law”), occurs in
Matt. 8:14; 10:35; Mark 1:30; Luke 4:38; 12:53 (twice).¶
For
MOTION,
Rom. 7:5
,
KJV
, see
PASSION
MOUNT, MOUNTAIN
(
7$
, 3735) is used (a) without specification, e.g., Luke 3:5 (distinct from
$
, “a hill,” see
HILL
, No. 3); John 4:20; (b) of “the Mount of Transfiguration,” Matt.
17:1, 9; Mark 9:2, 9; Luke 9:28, 37 (
KJV
, “hill”); 2 Pet. 1:18; (c) of “Zion,” Heb. 12:22;
Rev. 14:1; (d) of “Sinai,” Acts 7:30, 38; Gal. 4:24, 25; Heb. 8:5; 12:20; (e) of “the Mount
of Olives,” Matt. 21:1; 24:3; Mark 11:1; 13:3; Luke 19:29, 37; 22:39; John 8:1; Acts
1:12; (f) of “the hill districts as distinct from the lowlands,” especially of the hills above
the Sea of Galilee, e.g., Matt. 5:1; 8:1; 18:12; Mark 5:5; (g) of “the mountains on the east
of Jordan” and “those in the land of Ammon” and “the region of Petra,” etc., Matt. 24:16;
Mark 13:14; Luke 21:21; (h) proverbially, “of overcoming difficulties, or accomplishing
great things,” 1 Cor. 13:2; cf. Matt. 17:20; 21:21; Mark 11:23; (i) symbolically, of “a