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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain
This word is nsed with great freedom in AV, translating about twenty Heb. and nearly as many Gr. words. Each occurrence should be considered in relation to the orig. word. Here it is necessary only to draw attention to the obs. use of a. to signify superfluity : Mk 12* ' All they did cast in of their a.' (RV 'superfluity,' Gr. rh repitr- <reOov, as opp. to U(rrifn)<ris, ' deficiency,' said of the widow ; so Lk 21) ; Ps lOS*" ' Their land brought forth frogs in a.'
(RV 'swarmed with frogs,' Heb. n?; so Ex 8», and cf. Gn l»-»i 9'); 2 Co 12' 'through the a. of the revelations' (Gr. irep^ok-^, RV ' exceeding greatness '). J. Hastings.
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