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A. Adjective.
$
(
$
, 199), “whole, healthy,” is used metaphorically of “sound speech,”
Titus 2:8. See
WHOLE
.
B. Verb.
$
(
% &
, 5198), “to be healthy, sound in health” (Eng., “hygiene,” etc.),
translated “safe and sound” in Luke 15:27, is used metaphorically of doctrine, 1 Tim.
1:10; 2 Tim. 4:3; Titus 1:9; 2:1; of words, 1 Tim. 6:3,
RV
(
KJV
, “wholesome,”
RV
marg.,
“healthful”); 2 Tim. 1:13; “in the faith,” Titus 1:13 (
RV
marg., “healthy”); “in faith,”
Titus 2:2 (
RV
marg., ditto).
Note:
For “sound mind” in 2 Tim. 1:7,
KJV
, see
DISCIPLINE
; in 1 Pet. 4:7 (
KJV
,
“sober”), see
MIND
, B, No. 5.
SOUNDNESS
(
3
$&
, 3647), “completeness, soundness” (akin to
, see
ENTIRE
), occurs in Acts 3:16.¶ In the Sept., Isa. 1:6.¶
SOUTH, SOUTH WIND
(
, 3558) denotes (a) “the south wind,” Luke 12:55; Acts 27:13; 28:13; (b)
“south,” as a direction, Luke 13:29; Rev. 21:13; (c) “the South,” as a region, Matt. 12:42;
Luke 11:31.¶
Note:
For
, Acts 8:26, see
NOON
.
SOUTHWEST
(
&
, 3047), lit., “Libyan,” denotes “the S.W. wind,” Acts 27:12, “(looking)
northeast (and southeast),”
RV
, lit., “(looking down) the southwest wind (and down the
northwest wind)”; to look down a wind was to look in the direction in which it blows. A
S.W. wind blows towards the N.E.; the aspect of the haven answers to this. See also
under
NORTHEAST
,
NORTHWEST
.¶
SOW (Noun)
$
(
%
, 5300), “swine” (masc. or fem.), is used in the fem. in 2 Pet. 2:22.¶
SOW (Verb), SOWER
(
&$
, 4687), “to sow seed,” is used (1) literally, especially in the Synoptic
Gospels; elsewhere, 1 Cor. 15:36, 37; 2 Cor. 9:10, “the sower”, (2) metaphorically, (a) in
proverbial sayings, e.g., Matt. 13:3, 4; Luke 19:21, 22; John 4:37; 2 Cor. 9:6; (b) in the
interpretation of parables, e.g., Matt. 13:19-23 (in these vv.,
RV
, “was sown,” for
KJV
,
“received seed”); (c) otherwise as follows: of “sowing” spiritual things in preaching and
teaching, 1 Cor. 9:11; of the interment of the bodies of deceased believers, 1 Cor. 15:42-
44; of ministering to the necessities of others in things temporal (the harvest being
proportionate to the “sowing”), 2 Cor. 9:6, 10 (see above); of “sowing” to the flesh, Gal.
6:7, 8 (“that” in v. 7 is emphatic, “that and that only,” what was actually “sown”); in v. 8,
, “unto,” signifies “in the interests of”; of the “fruit of righteousness” by peacemakers,
Jas. 3:18.
SPACE
A. Noun.