Vine's Expository Dictionary

Drift lit., "to flow past, glide by" (para, "by," rheo, "to flow"), is used in Heb 2:1, where the significance is to find oneself "flowing" or "passing by," wit…

Drink (-eth, -er, -ing), Drank akin to B, No. 1, denotes "the thing drunk" (from a root po--, found in the Eng., "portion;" it is connected with the root pi--; …

Drive Out (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H5080Original Word: nadahUsage Notes: "to drive out, banish, thrust, move." This word is found primarily in bibli…

Drive, Driven, Drave, Drove denotes, lit., "to cast forth," with the suggestion of force (ek, "out," ballo, "to cast"); hence "to drive out or forth." It is tra…

Drop (Noun) "a large, thick drop of clotted blood" (etymologically akin to trepho, "to curdle"), is used in Luk 22:44, in the plural, in the narrative of the Lo…

Dropsy "dropsical, suffering from dropsy" (hudrops, "dropsy"), is found in Luk 14:2, the only instance recorded of the healing of this disease by the Lord.

Drown "to plunge into the deep, to sink" (buthos, "bottom, the deep, the sea"), akin to bathos, "depth," and abussos, "bottomless," and Eng., "bath," is used in…

Drunk, (-en, be), Drunkard, Drunkenness signifies "to be drunk with wine" (from methu, "mulled wine;" hence Eng., "mead, honey-wine"); originally it denoted sim…

Dry is used (a) naturally, of "dry" land, Heb 11:29; or of land in general, Mat 23:15, "land;" or of physical infirmity, "withered," Mat 12:10, Mar 3:3, Luk 6:6…

Due "one's own," is applied to kairos, "a season," in Gal 6:9, "in due season," i.e., in the season Divinely appointed for the reaping. So in 1Ti 2:6, "the test…

Dull "slow, sluggish, indolent, dull" (the etymology is uncertain), is translated "dull" in Heb 5:11 (in connection with akoe, "hearing;" lit., "in hearings"); …

Dumb lit., "speechless" (a, negative, and laleo, "to speak"), is found in Mar 7:37, Mar 9:17, Mar 9:25. In the Sept., Psa 38:13. lit., "voiceless, or soundless"…

Dung denotes "refuse," whether (a) "excrement," that which is cast out from the body, or (b) "the leavings of a feast," that which is thrown away from the table…

Dunghill "a dunghill," is found in Luk 14:35.

Dure * For DURE see under WHILE, Note 1

During * For DURING see Note p. 1

Durst * For DURST see DARE

Dust Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H6083Original Word: ‘aparUsage Notes: "dust; clods; plaster; ashes." Cognates of this word appear in Ugaritic, Akkadian, Ar…

Duty "to owe, to be indebted," is translated "it was our duty," in Luk 17:10, lit., "we owe (ought) to do;" so in Rom 15:27, AV, "their duty is:" RV, "they owe …

Dwell Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H1481Original Word: gûrUsage Notes: "to dwell as a client, sojourn." This verb occurs only in Northwes…

Dwell (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H3427Original Word: yashabUsage Notes: "to dwell, sit, abide, inhabit, remain." The word occurs o…

Dwell, Dwellers, Dwelling (place) "to dwell" (from oikos, "a house"), "to inhabit as one's abode," is derived from the Sanskrit, vic, "a dwelling place" (the En…

Dying * For DYING see DEADNESS

Dysentery whence Eng., "dysentery," is so translated in Act 28:8, RV, for AV "bloody flux" (enteron denotes an "intestine").