Dictionary: Rest
Synonyms: relax, take a rest, ease up/off, let up, slow down, pause, have/take a break, unbend, repose, laze, idle, loaf, do nothing, take time off, slack off, unwind, recharge one's batteries, be at leisure, take it easy, sit back, sit down, stand down, lounge, luxuriate, loll, slump, flop, put one's feet up, lie down, go to bed, have/take a nap, nap, catnap, doze, have/take a siesta, drowse, sleep, lie, be laid, recline, be, be placed, be positioned, support, prop (up), steady, balance, lean, lay, set, sit, stand, position, place, put, be based on, be grounded in, be founded on, depend on, be dependent on, rely on, hinge on, turn on, hang on, pivot on, be contingent on, revolve around, centre on, relaxation, leisure, ease, inactivity, respite, time off, time out, breathing space, break, interval, interlude, intermission, base, holder, stay, prop, brace, rack, hook, frame, shelf, bracket, trestle, tripod, plinth, pedestal, foundation, bed, foot, substructure, a standstill, a halt, a stop, remainder, residue, remaining part/number/quantity, part/number/quantity (that is) left over, others, those left, remains, remnant, remnants, rump, surplus, difference, extra, excess, superfluity, overflow, overspill, additional people/material/things, extra people/material/things, remain, continue to be, keep, persist in being, carry on being, go on being
Antonyms: work, motion, movement, struggle, rage, go mad, have a fit, see red, hit the roof, toil, be active, labor, effort, agony, activity, do, blow one's stack, blow a gasket, do one's nut, go ape, go wild, lose it, drive, action, move
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Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... the connection is not necessary. The language may reflect the Corinthians’ own boasts. Indeed, in the verses that follow, Paul’s remarks will locate his rhetorical audience—although the identities of those to whom Paul speaks are not to be pressed excessively. Verse 26 has been simplistically interpreted in a literal fashion in the past: commentators have suggested that the members of the early church were from the low, even lowest, classes of society. But the text merely recognizes that only some of ...
502. Vows
Numbers 30:1-16
Understanding Series
W.H. Bellinger, Jr.
... for nullifying vows does promote honesty in the relationships. As the people consider settled life in the promised land, such matters become important. This chapter offers protection for both men and women. Men have the opportunity to nullify vows that would excessively drain the resources they must provide to fulfill the promises. Women garner a prompt response from the father or husband and so need not fear judgment because of unfulfilled vows. The procedure promotes clarity. At the same time, the setting ...
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
The Ark Comes to Jerusalem: 6:1–5 The story begins at Baalah of Judah, where the ark had been kept since its recovery from the Philistines twenty years before. To take a party of thirty thousand men for a ceremonial duty sounds excessive, and the accuracy of the text has been seriously questioned. It is possible that the “thousand” refers to a military grouping (cf. additional note on 1 Sam. 4:10). However, Baalah, although Judean territory, was still within the range of Philistine influence. Thus, ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... punishment see Pss. 38:2; 120:4. 6:6 The vocabulary here makes interpretation difficult. Clines, Job 1–20, p. 158, offers a good review of the options, most of which attempt to identify some vegetable or plant food (khallamut) that generates an excess of “slime” (rir) or “gelatinous” material to be eaten. In the development of Job’s argument here, the point seems to be that while hungry animals complain when not fed, people who are dreadfully ill (as Job is) may even complain ungratefully when ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... despoil” (Holladay, Concise Hebrew, p. 179), suggesting that the poor were taking grapes by stealth. 24:12 This urban desperation is a phenomenon common to many industrializing societies. As farming is mechanized, requiring fewer laborers to support the many, excess agricultural laborers often flood the growing urban centers in search of jobs to support their families. This in turn creates a cheap labor force for urban industries, who often exploit the workers to increase productivity and profit. Thus the ...
506. Jesus Arrested
Matthew 26:47-56
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... that forbids defensive action at any time whatsoever. Jesus did not need the help of a few relatively harmless disciples, because he had at his disposal (had he chosen to take the route of personal defense) a vast army of angels. Twelve legions would be in excess of 72,000 (a Roman legion numbered 6,000 infantry plus 120 cavalry). However, if he called upon God for angels to defend him against the mob, the Scriptures that said that everything must take place as it did would then go unfulfilled. The covert ...
507. Faith in the Son of God
1 John 5:1-12, 1 John 4:7-21
Understanding Series
Thomas F. Johnson
... , primarily “we” who have come to know God’s love, without forgetting that God does love the whole world. The little word so (houtōs) deserves special attention. It can mean both “in this way” (as seen in God’s love in the previous verses) or “so much, excessively.” Both are true and make good sense in the present context. God’s love, not human love, is the model of authentic love (v. 10), and God’s gift of his only Son is an extreme act of love. God so loved us, both as to manner and ...
508. Feast of Tabernacles
Deuteronomy 16:13-17
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... natural and culturally universal celebration of the bounty of nature, as expressed through seasonal feasts and rituals, and tie them to their own redemptive history. Their feasts thus retained their character as cyclical markers of the agricultural year, while avoiding the excesses of the fertility cults. Yahweh was to be worshipped as the saving God of their history and also as the providing God of their land, the giver of all fertility, the Lord of every harvest. It is regrettable that Christian harvest ...
Understanding Series
Cheryl A. Brown
... prison so they could have some fun with him; he who loved playing games with the Philistines was now the object of their amusement. Samson performed before a capacity crowd that day, including all of the rulers of the Philistines (16:23). The author uses excessive detail in describing the crowd who saw (Hb. r’h) Samson that day in order to underscore the scope and impact of the following events. It also sets up a scene with one lone, seemingly weak figure standing before hordes of the mighty and powerful ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... to be arrogant and proud (v. 17), though the words Isaiah uses need not imply that this is so. The words for loftiness simply denote exalted height. The mere fact that things are so impressive means that they may seem to rival Yahweh, win excessive regard and trust, and need to be cut down. That applies to human beings and to natural resources (v. 13), impressive religious and urban sites (v. 14), fortifications (v. 15), and humanly-made assets (v. 16)—to all that impresses from Lebanon to the Red ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... God’s truth, Israel was quite open to learning from the culture and religion of other peoples where that could fill out and fit with what they knew of Yahweh. But this is a dangerous path, and it can lead to an excessive and undiscerning regard for those other resources. So Isaiah attacks reliance on human wisdom, Israelite or foreign. In Isaiah’s vision, Egypt finds itself overcome by internal disorder, external oppression, and natural disaster. As well as its intellectual tradition, the famous asset ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... irrigation ditches—though the reference to wading through streams may hint at the metaphorical sense in which she is going to find herself in deep water (cf. 43:2). 47:8 The word for wanton suggests the enjoyment of good food and other pleasures of life. It need not imply excess. Ms Babylon had simply been in a position to live well, but will be so no longer.
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King Duncan
... religious people are healthier than non-religious people and have longer life spans. One reason is because most of us do live more disciplined lives than our less religious neighbors. We’re less prone to indulge in such destructive behavior as drug abuse or excessive drinking, etc. It’s all a package. Seek God’s Kingdom first and you’ll be a better spouse, parent, member of the community. Your health will be better, your attitude about the future will be better, you will love your neighbor and wish ...
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Robert Noblett
... beyond those walls and around those corners. What must it feel like for Jan to believe she must erect a wall? What must it be like for Jim to peek at me, as if barely, with just one eye, around the corner? What fear must be rampant? What excessive reservation gives such pause? And how can I gain Jan and Jim's confidence so they will take down the wall or emerge fully around the corner? Christian love, as Paul so beautifully reminds us, is also patient. Waiting for the Jans and Jims to take down walls ...
515. Light Living
John 1:(1-9) 10-18
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Susan R. Andrews
... one of these celebrations started in the darkness — in the dazzling darkness — that is God’s home just as surely is the light. Then in a thousand creative ways, explosions of pyrotechnics shattered the darkness dramatically. Explosions of hope. Explosions of excess. Explosions of joy and peace and love. Human explosions, which, of course, lasted for only a few minutes. And then God’s dazzling darkness reclaimed the moment — a darkness waiting for God to bring the lasting light — in God’s own ...
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King Duncan
... a recognition on Jesus’ part of a truth about human nature--the deed begins with the thought. A young married woman sits in her pastor’s office. She describes to him a marriage gone stale, a husband with misplaced priorities, a situation in which she has excessive time on her hands and a longing for romance in her heart. “Yesterday I had lunch with a fellow I almost married,” she confesses. “I hadn’t seen him in years. Did I do wrong?” Of course there is nothing wrong with a simple lunch with ...
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R. Robert Cueni
... all baby boys under the age of two. Infant genocide was this Herod’s method of getting rid of a perceived rival. Herod the Great was an especially vicious fellow. His grandson, Herod Agrippa was known for extravagant spending on himself, being excessively greedy, taking bribes, and colluding with the Romans. Agrippa became king by falsely accusing his uncle of being disloyal to Caligula, the Roman emperor. Like his grandfather, Herod Agrippa was not a nice person. Agrippa’s uncle, King Herod Antipas was ...
518. Plutarch's Consolatory Letter to His Wife
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Editor James S. Hewett
... her memory, and make that memory a glad rather than a sorrowful one. And such reasons as we would use with others, let us try to make effective with ourselves. And as we put a limit to all riotous indulgence in our pleasures, so let us also check the excessive flow of our grief. It is well, both in action and dress, to shrink from an over-display of mourning, as well as to be modest and unassuming on festal occasions. Let us call to mind the years before our little daughter was born. We are now in the ...
519. To the Third and Fourth Generation
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Editor James S. Hewett
... refused to take his children to church, even when they asked to go. He has had 1,026 descendants; 300 were sent to prison for an average term of thirteen years; 190 were public prostitutes; 680 were admitted alcoholics. His family, thus far, has cost the state in excess of $420,000. They made no contribution to society. Jonathan Edwards lived in the same state, at the same time as Jukes. He loved the Lord and saw chat his children were in church every Sunday, as he served the Lord to the best of his ability ...
520. Radical Gratitude
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Editor James S. Hewett
... never lacked anything. Had I had thousands of pounds in hand, they would have fared no better than they have; for they have always had good nourishing food, the necessary articles of clothing, etc." In other words, the periods of trial were so in the sense that there was no excess of funds: God supplied the need by the day, even by the hour. Enough was sent, but no more than enough.
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace
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King Duncan
... of these young elephants roamed together in gangs and began to do things elephants normally don’t do. They threw sticks and water at rhinos and acted like neighborhood bullies. Without dominant males, the young bulls became sexually active, producing excessive testosterone and exhibiting aggressive behavior. A few young males grew especially violent, knocking down rhinos and stepping or kneeling on them, crushing the life out of them. An elephant named Mafuto, the gang leader eventually had to be killed ...
523. Redeemed
Luke 2:21-40
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Lori Wagner
... rising. And everyone had to pay it! Or they couldn’t be absolved. The priests had quite a racket going. And prices continued to rise up until the destruction of the Temple. In his adulthood, Jesus would challenge this system hard! “History records that excessive prices were being charged by those who were selling animals used in Temple sacrifice. For example, according to Leviticus 12:6-8, after an Israelite woman had given birth, she was to bring a sacrifice to the temple, preferably a sheep. But if ...
524. Are You a Lemming or a Lassie?
Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:35-48, Luke 12:49-53, Luke 12:54-59
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Lori Wagner
... people they sought to control with their many rules and exclusions. They were beginning to consider him dangerous. And Jesus knew his time would now be limited. He needed his disciples to understand the difference between the hidden motives of the Pharisees (disguised as excessive halakah) and God’s true halakah (the way of love and compassion). Jesus told them, God’s kingdom would soon be revealed, and the “harvest time” of judgment was at hand. He knew his own life would not be long. And that it ...
525. Unreasonable Mercy
2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13
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Lori Wagner
... entreat God to heal him. What he discovers is that Elisha has nothing really to do with it. It’s not Elisha who heals him. It is God –without pomp or circumstance—but only in the Holy Spirit presence, that mysterious, super-natural power that requires nothing, and gives everything. Excessive, exorbitant, immoderate, contrary to reason, not guided by sound judgment or rational behavior, beyond the limits of acceptability or fairness, out of this world just extraordinary –that’s the grace of God!
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