Dictionary: Face
Synonyms: countenance, physiognomy, profile, features, expression, facial expression, look, appearance, air, manner, bearing, guise, cast, aspect, impression, grimace, scowl, wry face, wince, frown, glower, smirk, pout, moue, side, flank, vertical, surface, plane, facet, wall, elevation, dial, display, (outward) appearance, nature, image, front, show, act, false front, facade, exterior, mask, masquerade, pretence, charade, pose, illusion, smokescreen, veneer, camouflage, respect, honour, esteem, regard, admiration, approbation, acclaim, approval, favour, appreciation, popularity, estimation, veneration, awe, reverence, deference, recognition, prestige, standing, status, dignity, glory, kudos, cachet, effrontery, audacity, nerve, gall, brazenness, brashness, shamelessness, look out on, front on to, look towards, be facing, have/afford/command a view of, look over/across, open out over, look on to, overlook, give on to, give over, be opposite (to), accept, come to accept, become reconciled to, reconcile oneself to, reach an acceptance (of), get used to, become accustomed to, adjust to, accommodate oneself to, acclimatize oneself to, be confronted by, be faced with, encounter, experience, come into contact with, run into, come across, meet, come up against, be forced to contend with, beset, worry, distress, cause trouble to, trouble, bother, confront, burden, brave, face up to, meet head-on, dare, defy, oppose, resist, withstand, cover, clad, skin, overlay, dress, pave, put a facing on, laminate, inlay, plate, coat, line
Antonyms: dodge, fear, back, give way, back down, dodge, avoid, throw in the towel, withdraw, cave in, retreat, succumb to, lay down one's arms, throw in the sponge, defer, submit, escape, bashfulness, shun, evade, elude
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Tremper Longman III
... command to the defeated tribe to flee and seek refuge in caves. Then v. 31 again urges on the attackers. The fact that these groups are at ease indicates that they will be easy pickings. Being a nomadic group, they do not live in a city protected by walls (a nation that has neither gates nor bars). The attack will leave the region devastated and deserted. It will revert to wilderness as typified by the fact that the jackal will dwell there. See also Jeremiah 9:11; 10:33 as well as Psalm 44:19; Isaiah 34 ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... which to make cool linen cloth, oil for anointing and healing, and pleasant drinks. Yahweh, however, has the resources to disabuse Israel of her faith in Baal. He will block her path to her lovers—perhaps meaning the paths to the Baal cult sites—with thorn-hedges or stone walls, so that Israel cannot run after other gods, verse 6. The image is of an animal that needs to be fenced in (cf. 4:16; 8:9; Jer. 2:23–25). Israel is like a wanton prostitute, who not only waits for her lovers to come to her (as ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... if that people is captive to a “spirit of harlotry,” they have no power to turn, and urging them to do so is like urging a prisoner in a cage to decorate his cage a bit—maybe by putting a rug on the floor or hanging a picture on the wall—when what he really needs is for someone to come and open the door. Slaves to sin must be released from their captivity by the action of God. Only then do they have the freedom to do the good. And that, of course, is the primary message of Hosea: God ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... no stirring, verse 4. Ovens in Israel were made of fired clay, cylindrical in shape, with stone or earthen floors and sides that sloped upward toward an orifice at the top. Dough was kneaded with yeast and made into flat cakes that were then plastered on the sloping walls of the oven. Every household had its oven, but there were also royal and urban bakeries (cf. 1 Sam. 8:13; Jer. 37:21; Neh. 3:11), and Hosea may have drawn his figure of speech from the royal ovens of the capital city. It is difficult to ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... most dependent, the pregnant woman, and the most helpless, the unborn child, for whom God throughout the Bible demands the most merciful care. Significantly, therefore, the judgment in this oracle is to be worked by God alone, who will personally set fire to the walls of Rabbah, the capital city on the upper course of the Jabbok, rather than sending fire, as in the other oracles. Moreover, Yahweh will fight against the Ammonites by means of a tempest and whirlwind; both of these are indications of God’s ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... Bashan, which was noted for its lush pastures in Transjordan (Ezek. 39:18; Deut. 32:14; Jer. 50:19, etc.). And they will not die natural deaths of old age and be properly buried. They will die violently before the onslaught of an enemy who will breach their walls. Their corpses will be dragged away, one after another, with hooks, like so much meat, to be cast forth toward Mt. Hermon (see additional note), which was situated in the Bashan range, verses 2–3. As in 3:9–11, the enemy who will do the women ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... courts of law. Such courts were made up of the male elders of each city, who met together to hear the case presented by a plaintiff against one accused, along with their witnesses. The court met in the city gate, which was a fortified building set into the wall of the city, and which had rooms or recesses on its interior side in which benches were set (cf. Deut. 21:19; 25:7; Ruth 4:11). All elders could speak in the court (cf. Job 32:12), and they were expected to uphold the innocent and decree punishment ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light. 19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him. 20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light- pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness? 21 "I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies. 22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... in God’s sight (cf. Hab. 1:13), and when the people do not repent, God’s cleansing judgment must wipe out the wrong (cf. Josh 7:6–15; Isa. 1:18–20; Jer. 8:4–13). Amos is therefore granted a third vision of the Lord standing beside a wall holding a plumb line. In the dialogue of verse 8, the Lord explains to Amos the meaning of what he sees. A plumb line is a builder’s tool consisting of a string with a weight on the end that is used to determine whether or not a structure is ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... first oracle, in verses 11–12, promises the restoration of the Davidic empire. While the meaning of “booth” (RSV; NIV has tent) is uncertain in verse 11, it probably refers to the city of Jerusalem (cf. Isa. 1:8 RSV). The promise is that Jerusalem’s walls and ruins will be restored to their former glory (cf. Isa. 61:4), and the new Davidic king will repossess the territory of Edom, which had so ravaged Judah after its fall to Babylonia in 587 BC (cf. Obad. 10–14). But the new Davidic realm will ...
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John Goldingay
... 6 may picture the attackers opening the floodgates that protect the city and thus flooding it, or simply entering the city through the gates on the side of the city that faces the river. “The complex of rivers, dams, dykes, moats, sluices, bridges, walls and gates offers a large field for conjecture as to the precise meaning of the phrase ‘gates of the rivers’” (J. M. P. Smith, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, p. 319). But in 1:4 “rivers” carried the overtone of tumultuous cosmic waters ...
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Pamela J. Scalise
... oracle consisting of retrospective, announcement of salvation, and admonition. The retrospective consists of a list of four fasts, each of which can be associated with an episode in the destruction of Jerusalem. In the fourth month Nebuchadnezzer’s army had broken through the city walls (2 Kgs. 25:3–4; Jer. 39:2; 52:6–7). In the fifth month the Babylonians had destroyed and burned the temple and other buildings (2 Kgs. 25:8–10; Jer. 52:12–14). In the seventh month Gedaliah the governor had been ...
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Pamela J. Scalise
... handy weapon (Judg. 5:26), but Isaiah 22:23–24 uses a peg driven into a firm place as a simile for the promised leadership of Eliakim, who would hold up the weight of his family’s honor until the day that he, as the peg, was sheared from the wall. The battle bow is not used anywhere else in the Oz as a metaphor for an individual, but Zechariah 9:13 likened Judah to a bow. Literally, every ruler is “every oppressor” (nogesh, as in 9:8). As the battle bow is used against an enemy, so the leader of ...
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Pamela J. Scalise
... question, “If the nations attack Jerusalem, what will happen to Judah?” Yehud surrounded Jerusalem geographically so that any army besieging Jerusalem will have conquered and encamped in Judah. If Judah joined the attackers, it would become like a siege wall enclosing Jerusalem. If Judah stood to protect the city, then it would be like a defensive rampart. Various translations and interpretations represent each reading of the awkward and ambivalent construction here in verse 2. (Compare, e.g., the NIV ...
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Pamela J. Scalise
... their own relationships with God. In the final verbal attack in this series God reveals the futility of the sacrificial cult being practiced at the temple by calling for it to end. The Lord wanted the priests to shut the doors of the gates in the walls surrounding the inner court, where the altar stood, so that worshippers could bring no more blind, crippled, or diseased animals to be offered up by useless fire. Lest there be any doubt about the meaning of the rhetorical questions in verses 8–9, the Lord ...
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King Duncan
... be no more. -------------------------------------------------------- 1. http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/1984/winter/84l1044.html. 2. The Great House of God (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2009). Cited in MONDAY FODDER http://family-safe-mail.com/. 3. What Do You Say to a Hungry World? (Waco: Word Books, 1975), p. 252. 4. Dr. Jerry Walls, The Asbury Herald, Volume 112, No. 2 & 3, p. 6.
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J. Ramsey Michaels
... rest to fend for themselves and go out looking for it (Luke 15:4). If not everyday actions, these are at least normal responses to life’s emergencies. The figure of speech in verses 1–5 is of the same type. If we see a man climbing over the wall of a sheep pen to get at the sheep, instead of through the gate, it is probably fair to conclude that he is not the shepherd or owner of the sheep (v. 1). The real shepherd enters by the normal way; the gatekeeper (probably an associate or subordinate shepherd ...
2743. Crucified, Dead, and Buried
John 19:17-27, John 19:28-37, John 19:38-42
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J. Ramsey Michaels
... building, the Constantinian Church of the Holy Sepulchre, houses them both, with much room to spare. Even the so-called Garden Tomb, venerated by many Protestants, is just a short walk from Gordon’s Calvary, a rocky promontory overlooking the East Jerusalem bus station outside the walls of the present Old City. Whether the church’s veneration of the two sites together provides independent attestation of the statements made here or whether it is based on those very statements is difficult to determine.
2744. Final Greeting
Philippians 4:21-23
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F. F. Bruce
... to a garden planted in a wilderness, but the church’s concern was not so much to prevent the wilderness from encroaching on the garden as to see to it that the garden took over more and more of the wilderness. The garden was not to be “walled around”; its boundaries were to be flexible and expandable. To change the figure, each colony of heaven was to extend its territory and incorporate more and more of its neighborhood. Every church was to be a missionary church, and the history of the expansion of ...
2745. Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
Genesis 19:30-38, Genesis 19:1-29
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John E. Hartley
... to Sodom, arriving at evening. Given the distance, either they hastened their journey by drawing on their heavenly powers, or they arrived the second evening after leaving Abraham. On entering the city they found Lot sitting in the gateway. One of the gates of a walled city served as the main access. A large open area inside that gate was the hub of city life. Throughout the day citizens assembled in the square to buy and sell and conduct a variety of transactions. In the early evening the leading citizens ...
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John E. Hartley
... defeat their enemies. 49:22–26 Joseph received the longest blessing, for Jacob chose him to receive the blessing of the firstborn. He was to be a fruitful vine, planted by a spring; thus its roots would always have water. Its branches would climb over a wall (Ps. 80), meaning that Joseph was to be prosperous and occupy its heritage fully. When attacked by a ruthless army of archers, he would be brave, not shrinking from the battle. His bow would be steady because the power of the Mighty One of Jacob was ...
2747. Love and Obey the Lord
Deuteronomy 11:1-32
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Christopher J. H. Wright
... to a close on the same note as it began in 4:1f. Additional Notes 11:10 By foot may refer to foot pumps used to lift water from the river and canals to the fields, or to the foot-control of the small mud walls and dikes that control the irrigation flows. Since “foot” in Hb. is sometimes used as a euphemism for genitals, it may even have been a derogatory reference to urination. For further illumination, see Eslinger, “Watering Egypt,” and Nicol, “Watering Egypt. . . Again.” 11:14 Autumn and ...
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Iain W. Provan
... the OT (cf., for example, Job 38–41; Prov. 30:15–31), as in the NT (e.g., Matt. 6:25–34). Here Solomon himself is characterized as someone concerned with the natural world, from the largest tree (the proverbially high cedar of Lebanon) to the smallest plant (the small wall-plant hyssop), from birds to fish. Wisdom “from below” (as here) and wisdom “from above” (as received in ch. 3) are thus combined in this one person, the wisest of all Israel’s kings.
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Iain W. Provan
... sort of “servant” as any Canaanite, that the authors do not wish us to regard the sēḇel as forced labor in the same sense as the mas; and indeed, the difference can be seen in Neh. 4:17, where we are again told of the building of Jerusalem’s wall. That is not to say, of course, that many Israelites did not see it as a harsh regime (cf. ch. 12). To them, sēḇel undoubtedly has much more the atmosphere of the Egyptian oppression (cf. Ps. 81:6). 11:30 The new cloak: It comes as no surprise to ...
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Iain W. Provan
... Chron. 35:20–27). We shall come across the theme twice more in 1 Kgs. (20:35–43; 22:29–38). See further R. Coggins, “On Kings and Disguises,” JSOT 50 (1991), pp. 55–62. 14:10 Every last male: Lit. “he who urinates against a wall.” The NIV’s desire for discretion obscures the obvious connection between the urine and the dung or excrement that God uses as fuel for the fire of destruction. Jeroboam’s house smells; radical action is needed to deal with this sanitation problem. Slave or free ...
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