Vine's Expository Dictionary

Dote 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 …

Double denotes "twofold, double," 1Ti 5:17, Rev 18:6 (twice). The comparative degree diploteron (neuter) is used adverbially in Mat 23:15, "twofold more." signi…

Double-minded lit. means "two-souled" (dis, "twice," psuche, "a soul"), hence, "double-minded," Jam 1:8, Jam 4:8.

Double-tongued primarily means "saying the same thing twice, or given to repetition" (dis, "twice," logos, "a word, or speech"); hence, "saying a thing to one p…

Doubt (be in, make to), Doubtful, Doubting always used in the Middle Voice, lit. means "to be without a way" (a, negative, poros, "a way, transit"), "to be with…

Doubt (no), Doubtless see ALTOGETHER, B. Notes: (1) In 2Co 12:1 the best texts have no word representing "doubtless." (2) In Luk 11:20, the particle ara, AV, "n…

Dove, Turtle-dove denotes "a dove or pigeon," Mat 3:16, Mat 10:16 (indicating its proverbial harmlessness); Mat 21:12, Mar 1:10, Mar 11:15, Luk 2:24 ("pigeons")…

Down * For DOWN see Note +, p. 9

Drag "to draw, drag, haul," is used of a net, Joh 21:8; of violently "draging" persons along, Act 8:3, "haling;" Act 14:19, RV, "dragged," AV, "drew;" Act 17:6 …

Dragon denoted "a mythical monster, a dragon;" also a large serpent, so called because of its keen power of sight (from a root derk, signifying "to see"). Twelv…

Drank * For DRANK see DRINK

Draught "a hunting, catching" (from ago, "to lead"), is used only in connection with fishing. In Luk 5:4 it signifies the act of catching fish; in Luk 5:9 it st…

Drave and Drove * For DRAVE and DROVE see DRIVE

Draw (away, back, nigh, on, out, up) * (A) In the sense of "dragging, pulling, or attracting:" a causal form of anabaino, "to go up," denotes, lit., "to make go…

Dream Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H2472Original Word: halômUsage Notes: "dream." This noun appears about 65 times and in all periods of …

Dream (Noun and Verb), Dreamer is "a vision in sleep," in distinction from a waking vision, Mat 1:20, Mat 1:2-13, Mat 2:19, Mat 2:22, Mat 27:19. is, lit., "what…

Dressed * Note: This is the AV translation of the Passive of georgeo, Heb 6:7, "to till the ground, to practice as a farmer;" RV, "is tilled." See TILL.

Dresser * Note: For ampelourgos, "dresser," Luk 13:7, AV (RV, "vine-dresser"), see VINEDRESSER.

Dried * For DRIED see DRY, B

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").

Each other a reciprocal pronoun, preceded by the preposition meta, "with," signifies "with each other," Luk 23:12, RV, for AV, "together." Similarly in Luk 24:1…

Each, Each man, Each one "each" or "every," is used of any number separately, either (a) as an adjective qualifying a noun, e.g., Luk 6:44, Joh 19:23, Heb 3:13,…

Eagle "an eagle" (also a vulture), is perhaps connected with aemi, "to blow," as of the wind, on account of its windlike flight. In Mat 24:28, Luk 17:37 the vul…

Ear Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H241Original Word: ’ozenUsage Notes: "ear." The noun ’ozen is common to Semitic languages. It appears 18…

Ear (of corn) is found in Mat 12:1, Mar 2:23, Mar 4:28 ("ear," twice); Luk 6:1. The first part of the word is derived from the root sta--, found in parts of the…

Ear (of the body) Latin auris, is used (a) of the physical organ, e.g., Luk 4:21, Act 7:57; in Act 11:22, in the plural with akouo, "to hear," lit., "was heard …

Early denotes "daybreak, dawn" (cp. Lat. orior, "to rise"). Used with the adverb batheos, "deeply," in Luk 24:1, it means "at early dawn" (RV). In Joh 8:2 it is…