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Dehort (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain

Only 1 Mac 9» ' they dehorted hiin, saying. We shall never be able ' (i.iro(npi<pw) ; and in the headings of some chapters. ' Dehort ' (fr. Lat. dehortari) is the opposite of ' exhort.' ' " Exhort " continues, but " dehort," a word whose place " dis- suade " does not exactly supply, has escaped us ' * — Trench, Eng. Pa.H and Pres.'' 179. Ussher (1656) in Ann. iv. 24 has 'Exhorting them to observe the law of (iod . . . and dehortin" them the breach of that law.' J. HASTINGS.

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Dehort

Dehort de-hort' (apostrepho; the Revised Version (British and American) DISSUADE): Not found in the English Bible; once only in Apocrypha (1 Macc 9:9). An obsolete English word; the opposite of "exhort." It means "to dissuade," "to forbid," "to restrain from."

References

  1. Orr, J. (ed.) (1915) The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Chicago: Howard-Severance Company. [Public Domain]
  2. Easton, M.G. (1893) Easton's Bible Dictionary. 3rd edn. Thomas Nelson. [Public Domain]
  3. Nave, O.J. (1897) Nave's Topical Bible. Topical Bible Publishing Co.. [Public Domain]
  4. Hastings, J. (ed.) (1909) A Dictionary of the Bible. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. [Public Domain]
  5. Smith, W. (ed.) (1884) Smith's Bible Dictionary. London: John Murray. [Public Domain]
  6. Fausset, A.R. (1878) Fausset's Bible Dictionary. [Public Domain]A Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopaedia

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