A Complete Christian Dictionary, Dictionary · Part DU
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Due]
put for a rite, 1 Chr. 15. 13. Allotment and portion, …. 11. 23. By right belonging, Prov. 23. 27. 1 Cor. 7. 3. Debt, Mat. 18. 34. Worthy or deserved, Luk. 23. 41. Any way liable to pay, Rom. 13. 7. Being applyed to … and time, it's put for solomnity, or set time, Numb. 28. 2. Fit and convenient, Lev. 26. 4. Deut. 11. 14. Psal. 104. 27. Opportunity, Prov. 15. 23. Proper, Gal. 6. 9. 1 Pet. 5. 6. Appointed and …, Rom. 5. 6.
Due]
Prov. 3. 27. From them to whom it is due, Heb. the owners thereof, marg.
Dukes]
;;Governours and Leaders, but inferiour to Kings, Gen. 26. 15. The Hebrew word Alluph, is a chief leader to guide; in Greek …, a Ruler, or Governour: it signifieth also Dukedemes, vers. 30. as Kings are put for Kingdomes, Isa. 23. 15. Daniel 7. 17. 23.
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An instrument of musick, Daniel 3. 5, 10.
Dulcimer: Daniel 3. 5. or Singing, Chald. symphony, marg.
Dull]
Applyed to ears, importeth averseness, backwardness, unskilfulness, Mar. 13. 15. Act. 28. 27. Heb. 5. 11.
Dull of bearing]
Slow, that is, averse from taking pains, that you may be able to hear with understanding.
There is a … dulness in the people in hearing.
1. Some are dull in the Letter, so the high-way ground.
2. To the spiritual sense. … Annot. Heb. 5. 11. The Original word foreign in Heb. 6. 12. is rendred slothful.
Dumah]
Silence; or likeness. The … of …, Gen. 25. 14.
Also, A City, Josh. 15. 52. or …, Isa. 21. 11.
Dumb]
;;One that cannot speak for lack of natural …, Mat. 9. 32. Mar. 7. 32.
;;2. One that cannot speak and teach others, for lack of grace and knowledge. Isa. 56. 10. Their watch-men are all …, they have … knowledge.
;;3. One that will not speak, though he can, being quiet and silent under Gods hand. Psal. 39. 9. I was …, and opened not my mouth.
4. One that cannot speak for himself, or defend his own cause, Prov. 31. 8.
5. One made dumb by a divine extasie, Daniel 10. 15.
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Behold thou shalt he dumb, Luk. 1. 20. The Heb. foreign, as the Gr. foreign, signifies both a dumb man, and a deaf, and is wont to be rendred either by foreign, or by foreign, Mic. 7. 16. i. e. growing, or becoming deaf, for there the Context refers to the ears. In this place one of the significations of the Heb. seems to be put for the other, foreign, …, or dumb (if we believe Theophilact and the Ancients) for …, deaf, and so that which is added, foreign, and not able to speak, will be no …, but … him dumb also. For that he was not only dumb, but deaf, appears by his friends, who did not speak, but …, and make signes to him, vers. 62. And it is not probable that of the two things that befell him, one should be twice, and the other not once, seretold by the Angel. Dr. …. Annot. ….
… …]
;;A spitit which make … him dumb, whom he …, Mar. 9. 17, 25. A Metonymie of the cause.
Dung]
;;Gods enemies trod under foot as dung and mire. Psal. 83. 11. They became the dung of the earth. Mal. 2. 3.
;;2. All things, even the most precious and glorious, without Christ. Phil. 3. 8. I judge all Dung. See Doung.
Dungeon]
A prison or place for offenders, Gen. 40. 10. But often abused to afflict the innocent, Gen. 40. 15. Jer. 37. 16. It's put also for a low, distressed, and dejected condition, Lam. 3. 55.
Duageon: Exod. 12. 29. Hebrew, house of the pit, marg.
Duta]
Generation, or habitation. The name of a place, Dan. 3. 1.
Durable]
Stable, stedfast, constant, Pro. 8. 18. The word in his prime notion signifies old, 1 Chr. 4. 22. Psal. 6. 7. Also durable, such as will last long, as having a notion sometime of … only, not of decay, Job 21. 17. Annot. …. Isa. 23. 18.
Dure]
Matth. 13. 21. … for a while. Endureth for a time, as the word foreign, is rendred, Mat. 4. 17.
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See Dare. Job. 32. 6. Durst not. Heb. I feared, marg.
Dust]
;;A weak and vile creature. Gen. 18. 27. How shall I that an … dust speak to my Lord? Gen. 3. 19. Dust thou art.
;;2. A mean estate. Psal. 113. 7. He listeth up the … out of the dust.
;;3. Death, or the estate of the dead. Gen. 3. 19. To dust thow shalt return. As also mans body, Eccles. 12. 7.
;;4. That part of man which is made of dust; to wit, his body, Psal. 30. 9. It also signifieth innumerable, Gen. 28. 14. Gen. 13. 16. & 32. 12. Numb. 23. 10.
5. The earth, Job 28. 2. marg.
6. Frail man, Gen. 3. 19. Psal. 103. 14.
7. The grave, Job 17. 26. Psal. 22. 29.
8. Innumerable posterity, Numb. 23. 10. Gen. 28. 14. which cannot be nambred, Gen. 13. 16.
Dust of gold, Job 28. 6. or gold-oar, marg.
To shake off the dust of the feet]
;;To witness by this sign, how execrable and loathsome they are, which refuse and contemn the Gospel, the very dust is infected. with their sin. Mat. 10. 14. Shake off the dust of your feet.
To return to dust, Psal. 104. 29. is, To die and be buryed.
Dust put upon the head]
;;Deep heaviness and sorrow, in respect, either of some great sin, or of some great judgement. Josh. 7. 5. And they put dust upon their heads, Act. 13. 51.
Rev. 18. 19. And they cast dust on their heads. It was the manner of Mourners. See Josh. 7. 6. 1 Sam. 4. 12. Job 2. 12. Ezek. 27. 30. These mourned most, because they were least able to subsist, therefore likely to perish sooner by want of trading, then the Merchants that employed them. They cryed in the former verse, here weeping and wailing is added to shew the greatness of their sorrow, vers. 9, 15. Annot.
Duty]
put for, To dwell together, and lye with, Exod. 21. 10, Deut. 25. 5, 7. Due service, 2 Chr. 8. 14. Ezra 3. 14. That which we are bound to do, Luk. 17. 10. Rom. 15. 27.
As the duty of every day requireth, Heb. the matter of the … in his day, marg. … 3, 4.