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and
, “a blow,” suggestive of the tossing of the waves. Some would connect it with
@
, “a level board,” but this is improbable, and less applicable to the general usage of
the word, which commonly denotes the sea in its restless character. See
SEA
.¶
For
DEPUTY
see
PROCONSUL
DERIDE
Note:
For
$
, lit., “to turn up the nose at, to deride out and out,” Luke
16:14; 23:35, see
SCOFF
.¶
DESCEND
1.
(
&
, 2597), “to go down” (
, “down,”
, “to go”), used
for various kinds of motion on the ground (e.g., going, walking, stepping), is usually
translated “to descend.” The
RV
uses the verb “to come down,” for
KJV
, “descend,” in
Mark 15:32; Acts 24:1; Rev. 21:10. See
COME
, No. 19.
2.
(
!$
, 2718), “to come or go down,” is translated
“descendeth,” in Jas. 3:15,
KJV
;
RV
, “cometh down.” See
COME
, No. 7.
DESCENT
(
1
, 2600) denotes “a going down,” akin to No. 1 under
DESCEND, a way down,” Luke 19:37.¶
Note:
For “descent” (
KJV
in Heb. 7:3, 6), see
GENEALOGY
(the
RV
rendering).
DESCRIBE
1.
(
$1
, 1125), “to write,” is rendered “describeth” in Rom. 10:5,
KJV
,
“For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the Law …”; this the
RV
corrects to
“For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the Law …” See
WRITE
.
2.
, (
!
, 3004) “to say,” is rendered “describeth” in Rom. 4:6,
KJV
, “David
describeth the blessedness …”; this the
RV
corrects to, “David pronounceth blessing upon
…” This might be regarded as the meaning, if David is considered as the human agent
acting for God as the real pronouncer of blessing. Otherwise the verb
is to be taken
in its ordinary sense of “telling or relating”; especially as the blessedness (
)
is not an act, but a state of felicity resulting from God’s act of justification.
DESERT (Noun and Adjective)
A. Noun.
(
#$ &
, 2047), primarily “a solitude, an uninhabited place,” in contrast to a
town or village, is translated “deserts” in Heb. 11:38; “the wilderness” in Matt. 15:33,
KJV
, “a desert place,”
RV
; so in Mark 8:4; “wilderness” in 2 Cor. 11:26. It does not
always denote a barren region, void of vegetation; it is often used of a place uncultivated,
but fit for pasturage. See
WILDERNESS
.¶
B. Adjective.
(
+$
, 2048), used as a noun, has the same meaning as
, in Luke
5:16 and 8:29,
RV
, “deserts,” for
KJV
, “wilderness”; in Matt. 24:26 and John 6:31,
RV
,
“wilderness,” for
KJV
, “desert.” As an adjective, it denotes (a), with reference to persons,