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Restless

Restless "unsettled, unstable, disorderly" (a, negative, kathistemi, "to set in order"), is translated "unstable" in Jam 1:8; "restless" in Jam 3:8, RV [in the latter, the AV "unruly" represents the word akata...

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Restless <1,,182, akatastatos>

"unsettled, unstable, disorderly" (a, negative, kathistemi, "to set in order"), is translated "unstable" in Jam 1:8; "restless" in Jam 3:8, RV [in the latter, the AV "unruly" represents the word akataschetos, signifying "that cannot be restrained" (a, negative, katecho, "to hold down, restrain"). In the Sept., Job 31:11.]. See UNRULY, UNSTABLE. In the Sept., Isa 54:11.

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