FAMISH
To famish means to suffer or cause severe hunger, or to become lean and deprived. Scripture uses the word literally of people and figuratively of the weakening or deprivation of powers.
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Fan
A fan was a winnowing shovel or fork used to toss grain into the wind so that chaff and straw separated from the useful grain. Scripture also uses this agricultural image for judgment and purification.
FAN, FANNER
A fan or winnowing fork was used to separate grain from chaff by tossing it into the wind. John the Baptist uses this agricultural image to describe the Messiah’s separating judgment.
FAR HOUSE
Far house is the marginal rendering of Beth-merhak, meaning “house of distance,” a place mentioned in David’s flight from Jerusalem.
FAREWELL
Farewell is a parting expression meaning “be strong,” “rejoice,” or “take one’s leave.” In Scripture it appears in letters and in accounts of people departing from one another.
Farm
A farm was cultivated land, though in ancient Palestine people generally lived in villages and went out to their fields. The land was understood as belonging ultimately to God, with Israelites holding and working their allotted portions.
Farthing
“Farthing” represents two small Roman coins mentioned in the New Testament: the assarion, a small coin, and the quadrans, one-fourth of an ass. The quadrans was the smaller of the two.
FASHION
Fashion can mean the shape, pattern, arrangement, appearance, or manner of something. The New Testament also uses it for the temporary outward form of the present world, in contrast with inward transformation.
Fast
Fasting is abstaining from food for religious purposes, commonly as an expression of repentance, prayer, grief, or dependence upon God. Scripture records required, public, local, and private fasts, while warning against hypocritical fasting.
Fasts
Fasts are appointed or voluntary periods of abstaining from food for religious purposes, often associated with prayer, repentance, mourning, or seeking God’s favor.
Fat
Fat can mean the richest part of an animal or the best portion of a product. Under the Mosaic law, certain animal fat was offered to God and forbidden as food; figuratively, “fat” may describe abundance or spiritual dullness.
Father
A father is an immediate male parent, ancestor, family head, or respected elder. Scripture also uses the term figuratively for a source, founder, teacher, ruler, or one whose character or influence is imparted to others; God is called Father in relation to His people.
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