Bible Dictionary: Frame

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Splice.

2. (v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.

3. (v. t.) To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.

4. (v. t.) To cause; to bring about; to produce.

5. (v. t.) To support.

6. (v. t.) To provide with a frame, as a picture.

7. (v. i.) To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.

8. (v. i.) To proceed; to go.

9. (n.) Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.

10. (n.) The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.

11. (n.) A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which encloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched

12. (n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

13. (n.) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.

14. (n.) The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.

15. (n.) A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.

16. (n.) A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.

17. (n.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.

18. (n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.

19. (n.) Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frame of government.

20. (n.) Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.

21. (n.) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

FRAME

fram:

(1) yetser (from root yatsar, "to knead," mold with the fingers): "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust" (Psalm 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" (Psalm 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

Greek

2675. katartizo -- to complete, prepare
... 2), perfect (1), prepared (4), restore (1). fit, frame, mend, restore. From
kata and a derivative of artios; to complete thoroughly ...
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3146. mastigoo -- to scourge
... mastigoo Phonetic Spelling: (mas-tig-o'-o) Short Definition: I flog, scourge Definition:
I flog, scourge, the victim being strapped to a pole or frame; met: I ...
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2165. euphraino -- to cheer, make merry
... From eu and phren; to put (middle voice or passively, be) in a good frame of mind,
ie Rejoice -- fare, make glad, be (make) merry, rejoice. see GREEK eu. ...
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1760. enthumeomai -- to reflect on, to ponder
... 1760 (from 1722 , " a state or condition," intensifying 2372 , "passionate response") --
properly, a frame of mind, easily agitated or quickly moved by . ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8261. shaquph -- frame, casing
... 8260, 8261. shaquph or shaquph. 8262 . frame, casing. Transliteration: shaquph
or shaquph Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-koof') Short Definition: frames. ...
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3336. yetser -- a form, framing, purpose
... Word Origin from yatsar Definition a form, framing, purpose NASB Word Usage formed
(1), frame (1), handiwork (1), intent (4), intentions* (1), mind (1), what (1 ...
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6108. otsem -- might, bones
... 6107, 6108. otsem. 6109 . might, bones. Transliteration: otsem Phonetic
Spelling: (o'-tsem) Short Definition: frame. Word Origin ...
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4011. mibneh -- structure
... Word Origin from banah Definition structure NASB Word Usage structure (1). frame.
From banah; a building -- frame. see HEBREW banah. 4010, 4011. mibneh. 4012 ...
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3335. yatsar -- to form, fashion
... potter (9), potter's (7), potters (1). earthen, fashion, form, frame, maker,
potter, purpose. Probably identical with yatsar (through ...
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6775. tsamad -- to bind, join
... fasten, frame, join self. A primitive root; to link, ie Gird; figuratively, to serve,
(mentally) contrive -- fasten, frame, join (self). 6774, 6775. ...
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4500. manor -- a (weaver's) beam
... beam. From niyr; a yoke (properly, for plowing), ie The frame of a loom -- beam.
see HEBREW niyr. 4499, 4500. manor. 4501 . Strong's Numbers.
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7948. shelabbim -- joining pieces (of stands)
... ledge. From shalab; a spacer or raised interval, ie The stile in a frame or panel --
ledge. see HEBREW shalab. 7947, 7948. shelabbim. 7949 . Strong's Numbers
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3559. kun -- to be firm
... appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous) -- certain(-ty), confirm, direct,
faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain ...
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6187. erek -- an order, row, estimate
... Word Origin from arak Definition an order, row, estimate NASB Word Usage arrangement
(1), assessment (1), equal (1), frame (1), suit (1), valuation (25), value ...
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Library

October the Sixth He Knoweth Our Frame
... OCTOBER The Sixth HE KNOWETH OUR FRAME. PSALM ciii.13-22. "He knoweth our
frame." The Bible abounds in such gracious and tender words. ...
/.../my daily meditation for the circling year/october the sixth he knoweth.htm

If She be a Wall, we Will Build Upon it Bulwarks of Silver; if She ...
... CHAPTER VIII. 9. If she be a wall, we will build upon it bulwarks of silver;
if she be a door we will frame it with boards of cedar. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/9 if she be a.htm

God Revealed in his Works. 1 Great God! the Heavens' Well Ordered ...
... RELIGION OF NATURE. 168. " God revealed in his Works. 1 Great God! the heavens'
well ordered frame Declares the glory of thy name. 168. LM6l. Watts. ...
/.../adams/hymns for christian devotion/168 god revealed in.htm

First, I am to Consider what the Keeping of the Heart Supposes and ...
... which has set the heart right, by giving it a new spiritual inclination, for as
long as the heart it not set right by grace as to in habitual frame, no means ...
//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/on keeping the heart/first i am to consider.htm

Secondly, to Assign Some Reasons Why Christians must Make this the ...
... Most certainly, that man who is careless of the frame of his heart, is but a hypocrite
in his profession, however eminent he be in the externals of religion. ...
/.../flavel/on keeping the heart/secondly to assign some reasons.htm

How Should we Make Use of Christ, in Going to the Father, in ...
... in our approaching, and so we should approach him without fear and diffidence; and
that notwithstanding that we find not our souls in such a good frame as we ...
/.../brown/christ the way the truth and the life/chapter xxix how should we.htm

The Conquest of Babylon.
... The boats were made in the following manner: first a frame was built, of the shape
of the intended boat, broad and shallow, and with the stem and stern of the ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter viii the conquest of.htm

The Charge of Worshipping a Cross the Heathens Themselves Made ...
... The Charge of Worshipping a Cross The Heathens Themselves Made Much of Crosses in
Sacred Things; Nay, Their Very Idols Were Formed on a Crucial Frame. ...
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All the Characteristics of Our Bodies --Sex, Various Limbs, Etc. ...
... limbs; on the one hand saying that these ought to continue permanently pursuing
their labours and enjoyments, as appendages to the same corporeal frame; and on ...
/.../on the resurrection of the flesh/chapter lx all the characteristics of.htm

The Beauty and Excellency of this World Consists, not Only in the ...
... all the materials of nothing, but his wisdom is manifested in the ordering and
disposing so dissonant natures into one well agreeing and comely frame; so that ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/chapter i the beauty and.htm

Thesaurus

Frame (33 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To support. 6. (vt) To provide with a frame, as a picture. 7. (vi) To shape;
to arrange, as the organs of speech. 8. (vi) To proceed; to go. ...
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Yoke (79 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen
are joined at the heads or necks for working together. ...
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Wheel (20 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid,
or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave ...
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Doorposts (15 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 6:31 And for the entrance of the Sanctuary he made doors of olive-wood,
the door-posts within the frame having five angles. (See NAS RSV). ...
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Bier (3 Occurrences)
... The frame on which dead bodies were conveyed to the grave (Luke 7:14). ... 1. (n.)
A portable frame on which a coffin is taken to the grave. ...
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Curb (5 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming
a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that ...
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Stock (16 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a
plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock. ...
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Sill (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a
timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as ...
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Framing (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frame. 2. (n.) The act, process, or style of putting together
a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames. ...
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Wide (206 Occurrences)
... NAS NIV). Exodus 25:25 And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's
hand, with a gold edge to the frame. (BBE RSV NIV). Exodus ...
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Bible Concordance

Frame (33 Occurrences)

Exodus 25:25 And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.
(BBE RSV)

Exodus 25:27 The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table is to be lifted.
(BBE RSV)

Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:25 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:22 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:26 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:30 There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
(See RSV NIV)

Exodus 37:12 And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round.
(BBE RSV)

Exodus 37:14 The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to be lifted.
(BBE RSV)

Exodus 38:4 And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;
(BBE)

Numbers 4:10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
(WEB ASV BBE RSV NIV)

Numbers 4:12 "They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
(WEB ASV BBE RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 31:21 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore."
(WEB ASV)

Judges 12:6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
(KJV JPS ASV WBS)

1 Kings 6:31 And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel and door-posts were a fifth part of the wall.
(See JPS)

1 Kings 6:33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;
(See JPS)

1 Kings 7:5 And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.
(BBE JPS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:31 The mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.
(See NIV)

Job 17:7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
(See NIV)

Job 41:12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
(WEB ASV BBE NAS RSV)

Psalms 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
(Root in KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Psalms 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
(KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 139:15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 38:12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
(BBE)

Isaiah 58:11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Ezekiel 40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Hosea 5:4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
(KJV WBS)

Subtopics

Frame

Related Terms

Yoke (79 Occurrences)

Wheel (20 Occurrences)

Doorposts (15 Occurrences)

Bier (3 Occurrences)

Curb (5 Occurrences)

Stock (16 Occurrences)

Sill (1 Occurrence)

Framing (1 Occurrence)

Wide (206 Occurrences)