Dear, dearth

Dear is used in AV in two senses: (1) Beluved, as Eph 5' 'Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children ' (d^oirTrriS!, HV ' beloved '). In this sense is Col 1" ' the kingdom of his d. Son,' which AV, along with Gov., Cran., Gen., and Bishops', retained from Tindale, though Wyclif's ' the sone of his louynge ' was nearer the (Jreek (6 fldsr^s d7ii7r7;sai>roC; Kheims, KV, 'the Son of his love '). See Beloved. (2) Precious, Ac 20-" 'neither count I my life d. unto myself {rifuos). Cf.

Ps 72''' Gov. ' deare slial their bloude be in his sight,' and 116'° 'right deare in the sight of the Lorde is the death of his sayntes,' both preserved in I'r. Bk. version, the meaning being that he counts it too precious to leave it unavenged. Dearth. — That which is precious is rare, as 1 S Si Gov. "The worde of y« Lorde waa deare at the same tyme ' ; and from 'dear' in this sense waa formed 'dcartir = 8carcity, famine.

Dearth occure in AV Gn 41Mi>", 2 K 4**, 2 Ch 623, Neh 63 (all 21^1, RV ' famine ' in Gn, 2 Ch, keeping ' dearth 'in 2 K, Neh) ; Jer 141 (n-lX5, RV 'drought'); Ac 7" 1128 (X/^it, rv 'famine'); and RV adds Job 5^ (\t^, AV 'famine'), though it retains ' famine ' for the same Heb. in 303. J_ HASTINGS.