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Note:
The corresponding verb is
, which, in reference to the work of an
overseer, is found in 1 Pet. 5:2,
RV
, “exercising the oversight,” for
KJV
“taking the
oversight.” See
OVERSIGHT
.
For
BIT
see
BRIDLE
BITE
(
1
, 1143), “to bite,” in Gal. 5:15, “if ye bite and devour one another,” is
used metaphorically of wounding the soul, or rending with reproaches.¶
BITTER, BITTERLY, BITTERNESS
A. Adjective.
(
$
, 4089), from a root
, meaning “to cut, to prick,” hence, lit.,
“pointed, sharp, keen, pungent to the sense of taste, smell, etc.,” is found in Jas. 3:11, 14.
In v. 11 it has its natural sense, with reference to water; in v. 14 it is used metaphorically
of jealousy,
RV
.¶
B. Verb.
(
$ &
, 4087), related to A, signifies, in the active voice, “to be bitter,”
Col. 3:19, or “to embitter, irritate, or to make bitter,” Rev. 10:9; the passive voice, “to be
made bitter,” is used in Rev. 8:11; 10:10.¶
C. Noun.
(
$&
, 4088) denotes “bitterness.” It is used in Acts 8:23, metaphorically, of
a condition of extreme wickedness, “gall of bitterness” or “bitter gall”; in Rom. 3:14, of
evil speaking; in Eph. 4:31, of “bitter” hatred; in Heb. 12:15, in the same sense,
metaphorically, of a root of “bitterness,” producing “bitter” fruit.¶
D. Adverb.
(
$
, 4090), “bitterly,” is used of the poignant grief of Peter’s weeping for
his denial of Christ, Matt. 26:75; Luke 22:62.¶
Note:
In the Sept.,
(not in the NT), “a bitter herb,” is used in Exod. 12:8; Num.
9:11.¶
BLACK, BLACKNESS
A. Adjective.
(
!
, 3189), “black,” Matt. 5:36; Rev. 6:5, 12, is derived from a root
,
meaning “to be dirty”; hence Latin,
$
, bad. See
INK
.
B. Nouns.
1.
(
, 1105), Heb. 12:18, “blackness, gloom,” seems to have been
associated with the idea of a tempest. It is related to
, “darkness,” in that passage,
and in the Sept. of Exod. 10:22; Deut. 4:11; Zeph. 1:15.¶
2.
(
, 2217), akin to No. 1, especially “the gloom of the regions of the
lost,” is used four times; 2 Pet. 2:4, “darkness” (
RV
); 2:17,
RV
, “blackness,” for
KJV
,
“mist”; Jude 6, “darkness”; v. 13, “blackness,” suggesting a kind of emanation. See
DARKNESS
,
MIST
.¶
For
BLADE
see
GRASS