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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain
In OT Is 26" only, 'they are deceased.' The Heb. is r^/)/iii'm ([:•!<;?•)), 'shades,' which RV translates ' they that are deceased ' in Job 26°, Ps 88">. See Rephaim. In NT 'decease' is naed as an intrans. vb. in Mt 22** ' the first, when he had married a wife, deceased ' (T(\tvrdu, ' come to an end,' used with dardrii!, Mt IS''). Cf. Fuller, Holt/ War (1639), HI. x. 132, 'Queen Sibyll who deceased of the plague.' 'The subst.
is found Lk 9" ' his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem,' and 2 P 1" (both l^oSos, exodus, ' outgoing ' ; used of death also Wis 3' 7°, Sir 38"; cf. tfa-oSoj = ' entering into' the world, Ac 13"). J. Hastings.
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