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Beam

Beam "a beam," is perhaps etymologically connected with the root dek--, seen in the word dechomai, "to receive," "beams" being received at their ends into walls or pieces of timber. The Lord used it metaphoric...

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Beam <1,,1385, dokos>

"a beam," is perhaps etymologically connected with the root dek--, seen in the word dechomai, "to receive," "beams" being received at their ends into walls or pieces of timber. The Lord used it metaphorically, in contrast to a mote, "of a great fault, or vice," Mat 1:7-5, Luk 1:6-42.

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