A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part US – Part UZ
U S.
VsUs]
;;The three persons of the holy Trinity, as Gen. 1. 26. Let us make, & 3. 22. Like one of us; that is, like the three Persons, either as the Father in power, or the Son in wisdom, or the Spirit in holiness: also Isa. 6. 8. Who will go for us? that is, to serve us in this business.
;;The plural number noteth plurality of Persons in the diverse manner of being; as the word of singular number, I (whom shall I send) noteth the unity of essence, or oneness of being, common to all three Persons.
;;2. The people of God, the multitude of true believers, as Isa. 6. 9. Luk. 2. 10, 11. 1 Joh. 2. 2. and often elsewhere.
VsUs]
Exod. 10. 25. Heb. into our hands, marg.
For us, 1 Pet. 2. 21. Some read, for you, marg. By the words prefixed and annexed hereunto, the meaning of such places will be very easie.
Vse]
Work, Lev. 7. 24. Using or handling, 2 Sam. 1. 18. Satisfying or fulfilling ones lust, Rom. 1. 26, 27. Custome, Psal. 119. 132. marg. Habit, or perfection, Heb. 5. 14. marg. Works of charity, and beneficence, Tit. 3. 14.
Vse]
is put,
1. For service, Lev. 7. 14. Eph. 4. 39. 2 Tim. 2. 21. Tit. 3. 14.
2. For custom, Jer. 31. 23. Ezek. 16. 44. Judg. 14. 13. Jer. 2. 24.
3. For imployment, 1 Chr. 12. 2. Jer. 23. 31. Gal. 5. 13.
Vse]
To the use of edifying, Eph. 4. 29. or to edifie profitably, marg.
Vse]
Heb. 5. 14. Who by reason of use have their senses exercised, &c. or, of an habit, or perfection, marg. or habit attained by hearing, reading, and meditating on the Word; by reason whereof their faculties of understanding and judgements (for words of sense often import faculties of the understanding part, and that both in general, Luk. 9. 45. compared with Luk. 18. 34. Phil. 1. 9. as also in particular, as Gen. 42. 1. & 2. 31. & 11. 7. Psal. 34. 8. 1 Pet. 2. 3.) choose the good, and refuse that which is evil, 1 Cor. 2. 13, 15. Annot.
To use]
To employ, Lev. 7. 24. To accustome, Numb. 15. 39. To make use of, Jer. 46. 11. To smooth, Jer. 23. 31. marg. To minister, 1 Tim. 3. 13. marg.
To shew forth, 2 Cor. 1. 17. & 3. 12.
To discharge, or exercise, 1 Tim. 3. 10. To feed upon, Heb. 5. 13. For necessary, Act. 20. 34. Tit. 3. 14.
Vsing]
1 Pet. 2. 16. Gr. having, marg.
Vsurer]
Exod. 22. 25. As an exacting creditor, as a lender that is urgent to have his own again, or to have a pawn for the same; so the word is sundry times used in this sense, 2 King. 4. 1. Psal. 109. 11. Neh. 5. 7, 10, 11. Deut. 24. 10. So the Law elsewhere forbiddeth exacting of debts upon our poor brethren, Deut. 15. 2, 3. Aynsw.
A lender of money upon covenant, for certain increase, intending and endevouring to make sure both principal and use, though the borrower should lose either the one or both. See Dr. … on Exod. 22. 25.
Vsurp]
To exercise jurisdiction unjustly, 1 Tim. 2. 12.
Vsury]
;;Biting (in the Hebrew tongue) because the gain which is taken for Money or Wares, in respect of lending, doth gnaw, bite, and wring him that giveth it; especially if he be a poor man, and bringeth home a bit or morsel from the rich man. Psal. 15 5. He that lendeth not his money upon usury. The word Usury is never used in good sense or part by the Scripture; where also no Usury is to be found but one, to wit, a biting and gnawing Usury; which is never … without hurt either to rich or poor; to private persons, or publick Weal.
;;Usury is any increase or vantage, for loan of money, or other things imposed or laid by the lender upon the borrower, only in consideration of the lending, Ezek. 18. 5, 6. Deut. 23. 19, 20.
;;Or more briefly thus: Usury is a certain gain above the principal, exacted upon Covenant for the use of money, or other things …. Exod. 22. 25. Thou shalt not impose usury upon him. Thus it is in the Hebrew Text.
Unto Usury these 5 things are necessarily required.
;;1. A principal, as wares, or summe of money.
;;2. Lending.
;;3. Gain.
;;4. A chief purpose by lending to increase our stock.
;;5. A covenant for that end. ;;As the very desire and expectation of gain, for len ding only, is mental and intentionable Usury: so the imposing, or by covenant before-hand, agreeing for increase above the principal, is of the nature of actual Usury.
;;In all these three Cases, there is no imposition of increase, that is, no fore-covenant, binding absolutely the borrower to pay again with the stock.
;;There are three cases wherein increase may be taken by a lender without danger of Usury.
;;1. When the borrower having by lawful means made some great gain by money freely lent, both by way of thankfulness, out of the voluntary motion of his own heart, returns something above the principal unto the lender, by whose means he had such a blessing.
;;2. When it may be duely and apparently proved, without pretence and collusion, that the borrower by holding back the money lent him, after the day agreed upon for payment, without the leave of the lender, doth hereby become a direct and effectual cause of hinderance to the lender, either by dammage arising to him, or by foregoing some commodity which he might well have made with his money, had it come home at the appointed time.
;;3. When the lender is content to hazzard the principal, and to bear part of the losse, if any fall to the borrower, without his own default. Here he may lawfully take part of the gain which cometh by good means; yea, he may justly make a Covenant and agreement for his share in such a gain.
U T.
Vthai]
Mine iniquity, or time, or frowardness, or an hour. The Son of …, 1 Chr. 9. 4. Of the Sons of Biguai, Ezra 8. 14.
Vtmost]
Furthermost, Gen. 49. 26. Numb. 11. 1. & 20. 16.
Vtter]
To reveal, Lev. 5. 1. Josh. 2. 14, 20. To sing, Judg. 5. 12. To speak, Job 8. 10. To declare, Psal. 106. 2. To exercise, or execute, Jer. 1. 16.
Vtter]
I will utter things which have been kept secret, &c. Mat. 13. 35. The word foreign must be rendred, I will pour out, as which signifies to send …, so as a fountain doth water, or a tree its juyce of moysture. Thus foreign, (which Psal. 19. 2. & 119. 171. & 145. 7. is rendred foreign) signifies scaturire or exundare, to pour forth water from within it, as here the foreign, what before was kept close within. Dr. Ham. Annot. f.
Vtter]
Totall or thorow destruction, 1 King. 20. 42. End, Nah. 1. 8.
Vtter]
Outward, Ezek. 10. 5.
Vtterance]
signifieth,
1. Ability to speak and expresse ones minde well, Act. 2. 4. 1 Cor. 1. 5. 2 Cor. 8. 7.
2. The matter to be uttered, Eph. 6. 19. Jer. 1. 9. Psal. 68. 12.
3. Liberty and boldness to utter the Word, Eph. 6. …. Col. 4. 3. 2 Tim. 1. 7, 8. All are promised by Christ unto his servants in the day of tryal, Luk. 21. 15.
Uttered, Psal. 66. 14. Heb. opened, marg.
Vttered]
Heb. 5. 11. hard to be uttered, or, to be expounded interpreted, to be fitted … the utterance or expression of them to your capacities. Leighs Annot.
…, Job 15. 5. Heb. teacheth, marg.
Vtterly]
Altogether, Exod. 17. 14. Deut. 2. 34. Judg. 1. 17.
Vtterly]
Psal. 119. 8. Very much, or unto vehemency, vehemently. Aynsw.
Vttermost]
Utmost, Exod. 26. 4. Farthest part, Numb. 20. 16. The very last, Mat. 5. 26.
Wrath is come upon them to the uttermost, 1 Thess. 2. 16. foreign untill the end, wrath is come upon them finally, so as it shall never be removed. Leghs Annot. or suddenly fallen upon. Annot. or hath come hastily upon them to the end. Dr. Ham. Par.
Able to save them to the uttermost, foreign, Heb. 7. 25. Surely, wholly, fully, perpetually, perfectly. Leigh Crit. Sac.
Vttermost]
Heb. 7 25. Able to save them to the uttermost, or evermore, that is, fully, perfectly, or to the end; so that no part of our salvation must be sought either in our selves, or in any other. The Original word signifieth all manner of perfection. Annot.
V U.
Vulture]
Lev. 11. 14. In Heb. here Daah, of flying, but in Deut. 14. 13. Roah, of seeing, for the Vulture espyeth and smelleth her prey from far, and flyeth with violence, being an heavy fowl; feedeth on …, and buildeth her nest on high rocks. Aynsw.
It's said that the Vulture conceiveth of the wind, none having at any time seen a male. It's said to draw blood from its thigh, whereof its young ones suck; on whom it bestoweth an hundred and twenty dayes, to bring them up. It preyeth not on any living thing. Having lived an hundred years, its bill becomes so hard and crooked that it cannot feed. It preyeth from noon till night, resteth from sun-rising till noon. It attendeth Armies, presaging death and dead corps. Sweet oyntments kill it. It preferreth stinking places where carion is, to the most pleasant and delicate meadows. It's an enemy unto Serpents, from the bitings whereof they are free, that carry a Vultures heart along with them. It's said to smell a carion of dead corps fifty miles off; on which it suddenly descendeth, but cannot easily (by reason of its heavy body) fly upward. Having fed, it carryeth the rest of the prey to its young ones. Its feathers being set on fire, make that the Serpents come out of their lurking places.
U Z.
Vz]
;;Was the Land where patient Job dwelt, Job 1. 1. There was also another Uz of Aram, Gen. 10. 23. Another Uz of Seir Edoms Countrey, Gen. 38. 28.
The land of Uz, Job 1. 1. was a part of the Countrey of Idumea, as Lam. 4. 21. so called from Uz the Son of Dishan, the Son of Seir, Gen. 36. 28. mentioned, Jer. 25. 10. Or, a part of Arabia bordering upon the land of Edom, as others conceive, because the place from whence Job's friends came, were thereabouts. Annot.
Aus in old pronouncing, whence Ausitae in Ptol. tab. 4. Broughton on Job.
It was upon the borders of the Sabeans, and of the Chal deans, and of the Arabians, those Eastern people, of whom it is generally received, that they were a people profane in their lives, and superstitious at least in their worship. In all, even in the worst places, God hath his servants. And it is a great honour and an high commendation to be good, and do good amongst those that are evill. And grace will preserve it self in the midst of the greatest opposition. Mr. Caryl's Expos. of Job 1. 1.
Vz]
Counsel, or wood; Syr. ….
Vz]
The Son of Aram, Gen. 10. 23. The Son of Dishan, Gen. 36. 28.
Vzai]
Then. The name of a man, Neh. 3. 25. The Father of Palal.
Uzal]
Wandring, … forward, or distilling from the head. Gen. 10. 27. The Son of Joktan.
Vzza]
Strength, or goat. The Son of Merari, 1 Chr. 6. 29. The Son of Ehud, 1 Chron. 8. 7. One smit to death for putting forth his hand to hold the Ark, 1 Chron. 13. 10. See 2 King. 21. 18. & Ezr. 2. 49. & Nehem. 7. 51.
Vzzah]
Strength, or a goat. The same with Uzza before mentioned, 2 Sam. 6. 7.
Vzzen-sherah]
An ear-lap of flesh, or an ear-lap remaining. A City, 1 Chron. 7. 24.
Vzzi]
Stong, my strength, or my goat. The Son of Bukki, 1 Chron. 6. 5. The Son of Tola, Ibid. 7. 2. See Nehem. 12. 19, 42.
Vzzi]
The Son of Bela, 1 Chr. 7. 7. The Son of Micri, 1 Chr. 9. 8. The Son of Bani, Neh. 11. 22. See Nehem. 12. 19, 42.
Vzziah]
The strength, or huck-goat of the Lord. One of David's Worthies, 1 Chr. 11. 44. The Son of …, Neh. 11. 4. The Son of Amaziah King of Judah, 2 Chr. 26. 1. called also Azariah, 2 King. 14. 21.
Vzziah]
The Son of Uriel, 1 Chr. 6. 24. The Father of Jehonathan, 1 Chr. 27. 25. Of the Sons of Harim, Ezr. 10. 21.
Vzziel]
The strength of God, or the buck-goat of God. The Son of Kohath, Exod. 6. 18. Of whom the family of the Uzzielites, Numb. 3. 27. The Son of Ishi, 1 Chr. 4. 42. The Son of Bela, 1 Chr. 7. 7. The Son of Heman, 1 Chr. 25. 4. Of the Sons of Jeduthun, 2 Chr. 29. 14. The Son of …, Neh. 3. 8.