Fine

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FINE.—The verb ‘to fine’ (mod. ‘refine’) is used in Job_28:1 ‘Surely there is a vein for silver, and a place for gold where they fine it’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘which they refine’). ‘Fining’ occurs in Pro_17:3; Pro_27:21; and ‘finer’ in Pro_25:4 ‘a vessel for the finer’ (Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘refiner’). See Refiner.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


fı̄n (adj., from Latin finire, ?to finish?): Indicates superior quality. Only in a few instances does ?fine? represent a separate word: (1) ṭōbh, ?good,? qualifies gold (2Ch_3:5, 2Ch_3:8, ?fine gold?; compare Gen_2:12, ?good?); fine gold (Lam_4:1, the King James Version ?most fine gold,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?most pure gold,? literally, ?good fine gold?), copper (Ezr_8:27, the Revised Version (British and American) ?fine bright brass?); ṭabh, Aramaic (Dan_2:32, ?fine gold?). (2) pāz, ?refined? (Son_5:11, ?the most fine gold?). (3) ḥēlebh, ?fatness,? ?the best of any kind?; compare Gen_45:18; Deu_32:14, etc. (Psa_81:16, ?the finest of the wheat,? the Revised Version, margin Hebrew ?fat of wheat?). (4) sārı̄ḳ, ?fine combed? (Isa_19:9, ?fine flax,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?combed flax?).
In other places it expresses a quality of the substantive: kethem, ?fine gold? (Job_31:24; Dan_10:5, the Revised Version (British and American) ?pure gold?); pāz, used as a noun for refined gold (Job_28:17; Psa_19:10; Pro_8:19; Isa_13:12; Lam_4:2); ḥārūc, ?fine gold? (Pro_3:14; compare Psa_68:13, ?yellow gold?); ṣōleth, ?flour,? rendered ?fine flour,? rolled or crushed small (Lev_2:1, Lev_2:4, Lev_2:5, Lev_2:7, etc.); semı́dalis, ?the finest wheaten flour? (Rev_18:13); ḳemaḥ ṣōleth, ?fine meal? (Gen_18:6); ṣādhı̄n, ?linen garment? (Septuagint σινδον, sindō̇n, Pro_31:24 the King James Version; Isa_3:23); shēsh, ?white,? ?fine linen? (Gen_41:42; Exo_25:4, etc.); in Pro_31:22 the King James Version has ?silk?; shēshı̄ (Eze_16:13, ?fine flour?); 'ēṭūn, ?what is twisted or spun,? ?yarn? (Pro_7:16 the King James Version, ?fine linen of Egypt? the Revised Version (British and American) ?yarn of Egypt?); būc, ?fine white cloth,? ?cotton or linen,? ?fine linen? (1Ch_4:21; Eze_27:16, etc.; 2Ch_5:12, King James Version ?white,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?fine?); bússos, ?byssus,? ?linen? from būc Septuagint for which, 2Ch_2:14; 2Ch_3:14), deemed very fine and precious, worn only by the rich (Luk_16:19; Rev_18:12); bússinos, ?byssine? made of fine linen, Septuagint for būc (1 Ch 5:27) (Rev_18:16, ?clothed in fine linen,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?arrayed,? Rev_19:8, Rev_19:14); sindōn, ?fine linen? (Mk 5:46, ?He bought fine linen,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?a linen cloth?; compare Mar_14:51, Mar_14:52; Mat_27:59; Luk_23:53); it was used for wrapping the body at night, also for wrapping round dead bodies; sindōn is Septuagint for ṣādhı̄n (Jdg_14:12, Jdg_14:13; Pro_31:24); chalkolı́banon (Rev_1:15; Rev_2:18, the King James Version ?fine brass?).
The meaning of this word has been much discussed; chálkos is ?brass? in Greek (with many compounds), and libanos is the Septuagint for lebhōnāh, ?frankincense,? which word was probably derived from the root lābhan, ?to burn?; this would give glowing brass, ?as if they burned in a furnace?; in Dan_10:6 it is nehōsheth ḳālāl, the King James Version ?polished brass,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?burnished? (ḳālal is ?to glow?). Plumptre deemed it a hybrid word composed of the Greek chalkos, ?brass,? and the Hebrew lābhān, ?white,? a technical word, such as might be familiar to the Ephesians; the Revised Version (British and American) has ?burnished brass?; Weymouth, ?silver-bronze when it is white-hot in a furnace?; the whiteness being expressed by the second half of the Greek word. See Thayer's Lexicon (s.v.).
In Apocrypha we have ?fine linen,? bussinos (1 Esdras 3:6), ?fine bread?; the adjective katharós, separate (Judith 10:5, the Revised Version, margin ?pure bread?); ?fine flour? (Ecclesiasticus 35:2; 38:11); semı́dalis (Bel and the Dragon verse 3; 2 Macc 1:8, the Revised Version (British and American) ?meal offering?).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Fine
or mulct for damages (q.v.). In some instances, by the Mosaic law, the amount of a fine, or of an indemnification that was to be made, was determined by the person who had been injured; in other instances it was fixed by the judge, and in others was defined by the, law (Exo_21:19-36; Deu_22:19; Deu_22:29). Twofold, fourfold, and even fivefold restitution of things stolen, and restitution of property unjustly retained, with twenty percent over and above, was required. Thus, if a man killed a beast, he was to make it good, beast for beast. This ordinance, observes Michaelis (Laws of Moses, art. 160), appears only incidentally in Lev_24:18, among criminal laws. If an ox pushed or gored another man's servant to death, his owner was bound to pay for the servant thirty shekels of silver (Exo_21:32). In the case of one man's ox pushing or goring another's to death, it would have been a very intricate point to ascertain which of the two had been to blame for the quarrel, and therefore both owners were obliged to bear the loss. The living ox was sold, and the price, together with the dead one, equally divided between them (Exo_21:35). If, however, the ox had previously been notorious for pushing, and the owner had not taken care to confine him, this made a difference; for then, to the man whose ox had been pushed, he was obliged to give another, and the dead ox he got himself (Exo_21:36). If a- man dug a pit and did not cover it, or let an old pit belonging to him remain open, and another man's beast fell into it, the owner of the pit was obliged to pay for the beast, and had it for the payment (Exo_21:33-34). When a fire was kindled in the fields, and did any damage, he who kindled it was obliged to make the damage good (Exo_22:6). SEE PUNISHMENT.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
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