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Simplicity
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sim-plis'-i-ti (pethayyuth; haplotes): The words in the Old Testament commonly translated "simplicity" are pethi, "simple" (Proverbs 1:22), pethayyuth, "simplicity" (9:13 margin), tom, "completeness," "integrity" (2 Samuel 15:11), "They went in their simplicity."...
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Phoenix
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fe'-niks (Phoinix; the King James Version Phenice): A harbor in Crete (Acts 27:12). The Alexandrian corn ship carrying Paul and the author of Acts, after it left Myra in Lycia, was prevented by adverse winds from holding a straight course to Italy, and sailed under...
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Faint
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fant (`ayeph, `uph, ya`aph, `alaph, aTaph, dawway, yaghea`, macac, rakhakh, paghar, kahah; ekluo, ekkakeo, kamno): The Hebrew vocabulary for the depressing physical conditions and mental emotions which are rendered in the King James Version by the English words "faint,"...
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Hashabiah
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hash-a-bi'-a (chashabhyah): (1) Two Levites of the family of Merari (1 Chronicles 6:45; 9:14). (2) A Levite who dwelt in Jerusalem at the time of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 11:15). (3) A son of Jeduthun (1 Chronicles 25:3). (4) A Hebronite, chief of a clan of...