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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia · 1915

Frame

fram:

(1) yetser (from root yatsar, "to knead," mold with the fingers):

"For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust" (Psalms 103:14).

(2) `erekh (from root `arakh, "to put in order," "to set in a row," "to arrange"):

"goodly frame" (Job 41:12, the King James Version "goodly proportion").

(3) `otsem "bony frame" "body":

"My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret" (Psalms 139:15), the King James Version "my substance," the King James Version margin "my strength, or, my body."

See also BONE.

(4) mibhneh, "building, frame" (Ezekiel 40:2, "frame of a city").

(5) nathan, "to give," "to direct":

"They will not frame their doings" (Hosea 5:4, the King James Version and the Revised Version, margin).

(6) sunarmologeo, "to fit or join closely together" (Ephesians 2:21).

(7) katartizo, "to fit out," "make fit," "adjust" (Hebrews 11:3).

H. L. E. Luering

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr, general editor (Chicago: Howard-Severance, 1915). Public domain. Text as published by biblestudytools.com. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: links to 1, 2, and 3 John that our source pointed at the Gospel of John corrected; our source’s section marks set as headings.