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experienced more than a tasting of the heavenly gift and partaking of the Holy Ghost (not
actually receiving Him), were tempted to apostatize to Judaism, and, thereby crucifying
the Son of God a second time, would “put Him to an open shame.” So were criminals
exposed.¶ In the Sept., Num. 25:4; Jer. 13:22; Ezek. 28:17.¶
SHAMEFASTNESS (
KJV
, SHAMEFACEDNESS)
(
* 0
, 127), “a sense of shame, modesty,” is used regarding the demeanor of
women in the church, 1 Tim. 2:9 (some mss. have it in Heb. 12:28 for
, “awe”: here
only in NT). “Shamefastness is that modesty which is ‘fast’ or rooted in the character …
The change to ‘shamefacedness’ is the more to be regretted because shamefacedness …
has come rather to describe an awkward diffidence, such as we sometimes call
sheepishness” (Davies;
0
,
, p. 12).
As to
and
$
(see
ASHAMED
, B, No. 1),
is more objective, having
regard to others; it is the stronger word. “Aidos would always restrain a good man from
an unworthy act,
$
would sometimes restrain a bad one” (Trench,
- !
Sec.xix,
xx).
SHAMEFULLY (ENTREAT)
Note:
This forms part of the rendering of (a)
, Mark 12:4, Luke 20:11, see
DISHONOR
, C, No. 1,
ENTREAT
, Note,
HANDLE
, No. 4; (b)
$
, “to insult,” Acts 14:5,
RV
; 1 Thess. 2:2, “were (
RV
, having been) shamefully entreated.” See
SPITEFULLY
.
SHAPE
1.
(
*
, 1491), rendered “shape” in the
KJV
of Luke 3:22 and John 5:37: see
FORM
, No. 4.
2.
(
3 &
, 3667), rendered “shapes” in Rev. 9:7: see
LIKENESS
, No. 1.
For
SHARERS
(
Heb. 2:14
) see
PARTAKE
, B, No. 1.
SHARP, SHARPER, SHARPLY, SHARPNESS
A. Adjectives.
1.
@$
(
A "
, 3691) denotes (a) “sharp” (Eng., “oxy—),” said of a sword, Rev. 1:16;
2:12; 19:15; of a sickle, 14:14, 17, 18 (twice); (b) of motion, “swift,” Rom. 3:15. See
SWIFT
.¶
2.
(
0 $
, 5114*), akin to
, “to cut” [Eng., “(ana)tomy,” etc.], is
used metaphorically in the comparative degree,
, in Heb. 4:12, of the Word of
God.
B. Adverb.
(
, 664) signifies “abruptly, curtly,” lit., “in a manner that cuts”
( , “from,”
, “to cut,” hence “sharply, severely,” 2 Cor. 13:10,
RV
, “(that I may
* Intensives, diminuitives, comparatives, or similar forms of other words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a single asterisk (for instance,
, from
is
1652*).