Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful
Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice
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51. The Raising of Lazarus
John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... at once, Lazarus would still be two days dead. Martha’s purpose (and Mary’s in v. 32) is rather to affirm her confidence in Jesus’ power to heal the sick. Even in the present tragic circumstances she does not exclude the possibility of a miracle, though she has no inkling what form it might take (v. 22; for a similar note of anticipation, cf. the remarks of Jesus’ mother in 2:5). What is clear to her is that Jesus’ power is the power of God; if he works a miracle, he must do so not on his own ...
Understanding Series
John E. Hartley
... brothers had no intimation that he would demand that they bring Benjamin to Egypt. This discussion provides a glimpse into the distress the loss of Joseph caused in Jacob’s household. It also emphasizes that neither Jacob nor his sons had any inkling that the Egyptian overseer was Joseph. 43:8–10 Judah sought to persuade Israel to let Benjamin, his youngest son, accompany them to Egypt by personally guaranteeing Benjamin’s safety. Judah underscored his argument by noting that they should have gone to ...
53. At the Tomb
Luke 24:1-12, Luke 23:50-56
Teach the Text
R.T. France
... in 6:14–15. Only Luke indicates the presence of more than the three named women in the group at the tomb. 24:11  they did not believe the women. For men who (like the women themselves until they met the angels) as yet had no inkling that Jesus’s death was not final, this was hardly a surprising outcome. The term translated “nonsense” suggests a rather contemptuous response to the women’s supposedly wishful thinking; it was well known that a woman could not be trusted, still less a whole bunch of ...
54. Samuel Anoints David
1 Samuel 16:1-13
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... Saul’s request that Jesse send David, who is with the sheep, which appears to indicate other prior knowledge. However, David, bringing appropriate gifts, joins Saul’s service as an armor-bearer, or squire, who doubled as a music therapist. There is no inkling of any tension between Saul and David, but rather emphasis on the fact that Saul liked David and was pleased with him. The music therapy was apparently, if only temporarily, successful. Additional Notes 16:1 Animal horns were traditionally used as ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... from life, as a cloud vanishes and is gone (v. 9a). Here, however, the emphasis is no longer on the ephemeral nature of life and its fragile transience, but on the permanence of death. Once one is dead and in the grave, one simply does not return. There is little inkling in these words of even a glimpse of resurrection hope that some have seen elsewhere in Job (see, e.g., below on 19:23–27). Death is final for Job. It will mean the end of suffering, but it also means the end of any hope for redress of ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... direct terms. Except for the “archers” mentioned in verse 13, God is the sole active participant in this attack. The opening words emphasize the unexpected nature of the assault: All was well with me. Job was at ease and secure with no inkling of what was to come. The verb prr, shattered, which can mean “nullify, revoke, violate” as well as “break, shatter,” suggests the sense of sudden violation. Job felt violated because the unanticipated dismantling of his confident reliance on God seemed to ...
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... Saul’s request that Jesse send David, who is with the sheep, which appears to indicate other prior knowledge. However, David, bringing appropriate gifts, joins Saul’s service as an armor-bearer, or squire, who doubled as a music therapist. There is no inkling of any tension between Saul and David, but rather emphasis on the fact that Saul liked David and was pleased with him. The music therapy was apparently, if only temporarily, successful. Additional Notes 16:1 Animal horns were traditionally used as ...
58. Holy Happiness
Luke 6:17-26
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... the vast stretch of desolation, knee deep in barren salt, just a hundred miles south of Nazareth. The aquamarine sparkle of that water is dazzling with a kind of deathly beauty. But it is a no man’s land where the glaring sun and parched earth destroy any inkling of life close by. This morning, when Jeremiah compares a shrub in the uninhabited salt land with a tree planted by water he is literally giving us a choice between life and death. Do we trust the dazzling desert of the world’s ways or do we ...
59. Aspects of Aging
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
... to recall vitally important information—such as the gross national product of Liberia, The Greek alphabet, and where you put your slippers. This affliction becomes particularly pronounced when you go upstairs to see something. Halfway up, you realize that you have no inkling of what you were going upstairs to fetch. Then you have to decide whether to go back downstairs and try to remember what you needed, or continue on up and look for something that needs bringing down. Unable to decide, you resort ...
60. Revised and Revisioned
John 8:48-59, John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41, John 10:1-21
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... a fallen hobbit in need of pity and mercy, as he has killed his brother in order to get the ring, see Woody Wendling. “The Riddle of the Gollum: Was Tolkien Inspired by Old Norse Gold, the Jewish Golem, and the Christian Gospel?” Inklings Forever 6 (2008); Douglas Anderson. The Annotated Hobbit. Note: Tolkien was a Christian and translated Jonah in the Jerusalem Bible in 1957 (published 1966). ^One could make a case perhaps for the first and second covenants here. Not only is the first creation being ...
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sermon
Jill J. Duffield
... Pharisees and scribes, nor that of the crowds. Jesus sought out the lost, no matter who they were or where they were or how that lostness was exhibited. And he responded eagerly to those who sought him out. Over and over again, when anyone showed an inkling of interest in him, Jesus turned his full attention toward them. To the leprous one who fell on his face and proclaimed, “If you choose, you can make me clean,” Jesus said, “I do choose. Your faith has made you well.” Jesus marveled at the faith ...
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