Dure (Hastings' Dictionary)

The simple vb. 'dure' (fr. Lat. durare, be hard,' 'last') is nowobsol., its place being filled by ' endure.' It occurs in AV Mt 13=' only : ' Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while ' (RV ' endureth for a while,' Gr. rpocKaipoi 4m, lit. 'is temporary'; Wye. 'is tempera!,' Rhem. ' is for a time' ; 'dureth' is Tindale's word, who tran.slates the same expression in Mk 4" by ' endure,' and is followed by AV). ' During,' still in u.se, is the pres. ptcp. of this verb ; cf. Tindale, Works, p. 476 : ' when the disciples were come together vnto the breakyng of the bread, Paule made a sermon duryng to myduight.' Not in AV, 'during' is introduced by RV into Mt 26', Jn 2'-'^ 13^ Rev 11. Durable is still in use, and applicable to clothing, as Is 23", but scarcely now to riches, as in Pr 8'". Cf. Purchas, Pil. p. 28 : ' They might take up their Crosse, and follow the second Adam unto a durable happinesse. J. HastINQS. DDTY is that which is due. In mod. Eng. it is only that which is due by one, but formerly expressed also that which is due to one. This is the meaning of Ex 21'°, AV ' If he take him another wife ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish ' (so RV). Cf. Tindale's tr. of Mt 20''' ' Take that which is thy duty, and go thy waye,' and of Lk 12^^ ' to geve them their deutie of meate at due season ' ; and Knox, Hist. p. 117 : ' I will serve my Prince with body, heart, goods, strength, and all that is in my power, except that which is God's duty, which I will reserve to him alone.' Shaks. uses the word in both senses, Tarn, of Shrew, IV. L 40 : ' Do thy duty, and have thy duty.' For the biblical conception of Duty, see Ethics. J. Hastings. DWARF is the rendering in AV and RV of pi, a word (Lv 21*') denoting one of the j)hysical disqualifications by whicli a priest was unfitted foi service. The word means thin, lean, small. 1 1 is applied to Pharaoh's lean kine (Gn 41' etc.), to the minute grains of manna (Ex 16"), to the still, small voice (1 K 19"), and in other like instances. The conjecture that it here means a dwarf is plaus- ible. But others regard it as meaning an unnatur- ally thin man — a consumptive, perhaps. The Sept. ((<t>ri\oi) and Vulg. connect this specification with the one that follows, as indicating defective eyes. So the meaning must be regarded as uncertain. W. J. Beeciier.