G. E. Post.
CAST as a subst. occurs Lk 22" ' a stone's c' {Po\r)) • as an adj. Jer 38"- " ' old c. clouts ' (ni;np [all]). The verb is freq., and is used in some obsol. meanings. 1. In its simplest sense = ' throw,' it is now archaic, having been displaced by 'throw ' itself, but is often found in AV, as Jn 8' ' let him first c. a stone at her ' ; 1 Mac 6°' ' engines and instruments to c. fire and stones, and pieces to c. darts, and slings ' — in such a case the verb has gone out of use with the instrument. 2. The ex- pression cast lots translates several Heb. words (see Lot) ; the practice is seen in Pr 10"' ' The lot is c. into the lap.' 3. To ' c. (=sow) seed ' is now mainly iig. Cf. Ec 11' ' c. tliy bread ujion the waters.' 4. C. was formerly used of animals, meanin" to give birth to, as Walton, Angler (16.53), i. 26, ' "There be divers fishes that cast their si)a\vrie on flags and stones.' But it was specially used of an untimely birth, as Job 21'° * their cow calvcth, and casteth not her calf,' and extended to fruit- trees, as Dt 28'"' ' thine olive shall c. his fruit ' ; Kev 6" ' as a fig-tree casteth her untimely tigs, when she is shaken by a mighty wind.' S. C. was extended to actions that involved some continuous eHbrt, as Zee 5' ' he c. it (RV ' her ') down into the midst of the epliah ; and he c. the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof; the erection of a pillar, (jn 31" ' Behold this heap and this jiillar which 1 have c. betwixt me and thee' (RV ' set'); and esp. an earthwork, as 2 S 20" ' tliey c. up a bank against the citj ' ; .ler 6' ' Hew ye down trees, and c. a mount against Jerusalem.'
The foil, phrases de.serve attention : Cast about is used in two senses, Mk 14" ' having a linen cloth c. about his naked body' (irepi/SdXXw) ; Jer 41''' 'So all the peo]ile . . . cast about and returned' (132; 'turned round'). Cf. Raleigh (1501), Last Fight Ilev. 19 ' Persuaded ... to cut his maine Eaile, and cast about.' Cast away is both lit. and
fig., as Mk lO** ' And he, casting away his gar- ment, rose ' (djTo^aXXu) ; Ro 11' ' Hath God c. away his people?' (ojtwWui, RV 'cast oil") ; II" 'if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world ' (aTTo'fioKTi) ; Lk 9^ ' if he . . . lose himself, or be c. awa3' ' (j'j/^iw, RV ' forfeit his own self '). Dillerent is 1 Co 9-'' ' lest . i . I myself should be a castaway ' (dSiicijiios, RV ' rejected.' The Gr. word occurs also Ro I'", 2 Co 13= «■', 2 Ti 3», Tit 1"", where EV gives always ' reprobate,' and He 6' AV, RV 'rejected.' See Sanday - Headlam on Ro 1-* : SoKifui^u) = 1. 'to test,' as 1 Co 3" ; 2. 'to approve after testing,' as Ro 12*2"; hence aobKi.iJ.os = ' rejected after testing,' ' reprobate '). Cast down — ( 1 ) lit. Mt 27° ' he c. down the pieces of silver'; Sir 19-'' 'Casting down his countenance, and making as if he heard them not' (RV ' bowing down his face') ; (2) tig. ' to defeat,' ' to humble, 2 Co 10° ' Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself; Rev 12'" 'the accuser of our brethren is c. down ' ; 2 Co 4" ' c. down, but not destroyed ' [KarajBdWu, as Rev 12" RV ' smitten down ') ; Job 6-' ' ye see my casting down, and are afraid ' (nnq R V ' a terror ') ; Neh 6" ' they were much c. down in their own eyes ' ; (3) ' c. down ' = ' dejected,' is rare, only Ps 42*- "• " 43' ' W^iy art thou c. down, O my soul?' (•nqiFi^B ' bowed down '). Cast forth is used in the obsol. and very rare sense of spreading roots, Hos 14° ' he sliall grow as the lily, and c. forth his roots as Lebanon" (njri 'strike'). Cast in — (l) = 'sow,' Is 2S^ ' c. in the principal wheat ' (RV ' put in the wheat in rows ) ; (2) in phrase ' c. in one's lot,' Pr 1'^ ' C. in thy lot among us' (Heb. lit. ' cause thy lot to fall among us); (3) 'cast in one's teeth,' Mt 27" ' The thieves also, wliich were crucified with him, c. the same in his teeth ' (Gr. uvfUifox airri^ [edd. airrii'] = ' reviled him,' RV ' c. upon him the same reproach.' It was Tindale that introduced ' cast in His tethe,' to which Cranmei added ' the same ' ; W3'clif has ' upbraiden Hym of the same thing'); (4) ' c. in one's mind' = ' ponder,' Lk 1'-' ' she . . . cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be ' [SiaXoyi^ofiai] : cf. 2 Mac 11" 'casting with himself what loss lie had had'; and Addison (1719), 'I have lately been casting in my thoughts the several unhajiiu- uesses of life.' Cast out, in many obvious senses, also (1) = vomit. Is 26'^ ' the earth shall c. out tlie dead' (RV 'c. forth'); cf. Ilollybush (1561), 'He tliat liath a drye cough and doth not caste out'; and Wyclif's tr. of 2 P 2-- ' The hound tumede agen to his castyng ' ; (2) ' to excommunicate ' or make an outcast, Jn 9*° ' Jesus heard that they had c. him out'; (3) 'to expose' children, Ac 7" ' they c. out their young children' (jroicii' iKderoi'). Cast upon : ' to make dependent on,' Ps 22'° ' I was c. upon thee from the womb.'