Shew

Both verb and snbst. (always spelt 'shew,' the modem spelling 'show' had not yet come in ; both are found in early copies of Hooker, though ' shew ' is even then most frequent) are used in AV with greater freedom than now. For the verb we find : 1. Make to see (or of • It is Bcarcelv worth mentioninff that a Jewish tradition (Jalkut OD Ezr 1) identifies Sbeshba^^r with Daniel. things make to he seen), literally, as now.

Thus Ex 33" ' I beseech thee, shew me thy glory ' ; Jn 14 ' Lord, shew us the Father.' So Bacon, Essays, ' Of Death ' (Gold. Treas. ed. p. 6), ' Groanes and Convulsions, and a discoloured Face, and Friends weeping, and Blackes, and Obsequies, and the like, shew Death terrible.' 2. Make to be seen ligura- tively, declare, reveal (cf. Driver, Daniel, pp. 18 f., 47 ; Par. Psalt. 481). Thus 1 S 22" 'They knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me ('V: liS^ JTN'nK, LXX ovK 6.

TrQKa\v\liav t6 urtov fiov ; Vulg. non indicaverunt mihi ; KV 'did not disclose it to me'); Job 32"" 'Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion'; Ps 19^ 'Night unto night sheweth knowledge ' ; Sir 37™ ' There is one that sheweth wisdom in words, and is hated ' ; 1 Co 11^ 'Ye do shew {Karayy^WcTe, RV 'ye proclaim') the Lord's death till he come ' ; 15" ' I shew you a, mystery' (X^w, RV 'I tell'). Cf. Shaks. All's Well, IV. i. 93— ' O, let me live ! And all the secrets of our camp I'U show.'

3. To gh'e or do something to one — a natural exten- sion of the general sense cause to appear. Thus Ac 4^ ' The man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed ' (Gr. ^e76i'ei, edd. 7e76cei, RV 'was wrought'); 24*' ' Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound' {9i\uir re x''/'"'''' [edd. x''/'"'''] xa''"- eiadai, RV 'desiring to gain favour with'). Cf. Babees Book, 2 — ' And eke, o lady taya, Facecia I My penne thow guyde, and helpe unto me shewe.'

The subst. means : 1. Outward appearance. Is 3' 'The shew of their countenance doth witness against them ' (on-j? nir.i, RVm ' their respecting of persons ') ; Sir 43' ' The beauty of heaven, with his glorious shew ' (^i- bpAiuni ScSJiis, RV ' in the spectacle of its glory'); Gal 6" ' A» many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh ' (fiVpoo, bnrriaai). Cf. Pref. to A V, ' Some peradventure would have no varietie of .

sences to be set in the margine, lest the authoritie of the Scriptures for deciding of controversies by that shew of uncer- taintie, should somewhat be shaken'; and Drayton, Sol. Song, ch. 5 — • His eies be like to doves' On rivers' banks below, Ywasht with milk, whose collours are Moat gallant to the shew.' 2. Spectacle, Col 2"> ' He made a shew of them openly' {iSeiyixdriaev ivTappr]<Tlg.) Cf. Ezkl2'Cov.

, ' Hyde thy face that thou see not the earth, for I have made the a shewtoken \into the house of Israel.' 3. Semblance, Ps 39' 'Surely every man walketh in a vain shew ' (D^s?, RVm [implying false etym. connexion] 'as a shadow') ; Col 2-' 'which things have indeed a shew of \vi8dom ' (\i70i' aoiptaf). Cf. Fuller, Holy State, 158, 'Travell not too early before thy judgement be risen, lest thou observest rather shews than substance, marking alone pageants, pictures, beautiful! buildings,' etc.

4. Pretence, Lk 20" ' Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers' (jrpo- ipiaa, RV ' for a pretence '). Cf. Purchas, Pilgrim- age, 386, ' In shew to kecpe the straits, in deed to expect the event ' ; and Paraph. 25'° — ' Who can his generation tell? From prison see him led I With impious shew of law condenu'd And number'd with the dead.' Sheuring is used as a subst. in Lk l* ' Till the day of his shewing unto Israel' (Jut itiUpai iva- Sel^eus airrov). The Eng.

word is quite unusual, and is simnly a literal tr. (after Vulg. osfensio and Wvclif's 'schewynge') of the Gr. dniJEcfit, wliich does not occur elsewhere in NT. On com- paring Lk 10' ' The Lord appointed {iviiaity) other SHEWBREAD SHEWBEEAD 495 seventy also,' and Ac 1** ' Sliew {avdlti^of) whether of these two thou hast chosen,' we see that the reference is to the entrance of Jolin on his public ministry. J. Hastings.