5. It is only in poetic parallelism that 'flood' is used of the sea : I's 24- —
' He bath founded it (the earth] upon the sew. And established it upon the floods ' ;
P393' '"-, Jon 2-' (all ndhAr) ; and Ex 15» (n^zlllm, of the waters of the Rod Sea). In Apocr., 2 Es 415.17. 19. ai (jlitctus, RV 'waves').
• So plainly in AV, since the marg. ref. is to Gn 7" : amd thi Or. is *«Tfli»Xv*-pt6f : but RV omits the ref., and prints 'flomi,' not 'F'lood'; and the recently discovered Ueb. text give* ' river' (Cowley and Neul>auer).
t This cancels the ' Parchment ' tr« ' Jeho\ah has seated him- self above the flood,* and its note, 'cither the deluge or tb« heavenly ocean already referred to in v.^.'
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FLOOR
FLUX
6. Finally, the word is thrice used metaphoric- ally : 2 S 2-2' = Ps 18* ' the floods of ungodly men made me afraid ' (Vi'i^a 'Snj, lit. ' streams of Belial ' ; KV 'floods of ungodliness'; see Selbie, Cheyne, and Ilommel in Expos. Times, viii. [1897] 360, 423, 472 ; and Baudissin, Cheyne, Jensen, ib. ix. 40, 91, 283, 332). Cf. Shaks. Timon of Athens, I. i. 42—
•You Bee this conference, thia ^eat flood of risitora.* Also 1 Mac 6" ' a flood of miser)/ ' (TroTajuij, RV Bimply 'a flood'). Cf. Milton, On Time, 13 — * And joy shall overtake us as a flood.'
J. Hastings. FLOOR. — The word ' floor ' is now most familiar as the part we tread on in a room ; but it once as readily suggested' the platform on which com was threshed. Hence in AV (after earlier VSS) ' floor ' stands as the tr" of pi gOren, fourteen times, which elsewhere is mostly tr'' ' threshing- floor.'
The Heb. word occurs altogether 36 times : it is tr<i ' thresh- Infr-floor' (1811 two sep. words) 19 times (On 6I110, Nu IS-M
l!,i7. 30 Ru 35, 1 S 231, 2 8 6' 24I8- »!• ", 1 Ch 139 2111- 18.21. 22 23,
2 Ch 31, Jer 61S3), and ' floor' 11 times (On SO'i, Dt LSH, Jg637, Ru 33- «■ ", Is 2110, Ho3 92 133, Ji 2»i, Mic 412). RV pves ' threshing-floor ' everywhere except Gn SOU, Is 2111', and Jl 22i, retaining * floor ' in these places Elsewhere g6ren is tr* ' barn- floor' 2K 6" (1611 'bam floor'; BV 'threshing-floor'), ' thrcshingplace' 2 S 2418 (1611 'threshing place,' RV 'thresh- ing-floor'); 'a void place' 1 K 22io=2 Ch 189 (RV 'an open place '), • bam ' Job 3912 (rv ' threshing-floor '), ' com ' Dt 16" ('after that thou hast gathered in thy com and thy wine,' RV 'after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy wine-press'), and in Hos9i [all] the fuller phrase hoi- gomdth ddgdn is tpl ' cornfloor ' (1611 ' com floor ').
The only other OT word is tix 'iddar, which occurs onlv Dn 2" and is tr'' ' threshing floor ' (o:!!^"!!!*, EV 'summer threshing-floors'). In NT aXwi- occurs only Mt 3'-, Lk 3" and is tr'' 'floor,' RV 'threshing-floor.' In Apocr. area is tr'' 'floor' 2Es 4=12 (so RV), 4*'-'» (RV 'threshing- floor '). See Agriculture.
For the floor of a room see HOUSE.
J. HAi5TINGS.
FLOTE. — The timber for the temple, being cut in Lebanon, was conveyed by sea to Joppa in flotes : 1 K 5" (niini, RV 'rafts'), 2 Ch 2'« (nnrpn). The logs themselves would form the raft ; hence in 1 Es 5" it is said that for the building of the second temple the timber was brought to the haven of Joppa, not ' by rafts ' ( AV, as if crxe5(ais), but 'ire rafts' (RV, cf. LXX ax^Sia.s). In 1 K S'' LXX reads axeilas, in 2 Ch 2i« axeilais.
AV 1611 .spells 'flotes' at each occurrence. Modem editions give ' flotes ' in 2 Ch 2^^ * and 1 Es 5", but ' floats ' 1 K 5«. Scrivener restores ' flotes,' and is followed in Camb. Bible for Schools and Colleges.
FLOOR See Food.
FLOURISH. — Two stages may be marked in the nse of the verb to flourish : 1. To flower, blossom, said (a) literally or (6) metaphorically, as (a) Lyte (1578), Dodoens, II. xx. 117, 'It beginneth to floure at the toppe of the stalke, and so goeth florishing downewarde.' So in AV Ec 12' 'the almond tree shall flourish' (['.xj;, RV 'shall blossom'); Ca 6" 7" of the vine (rn^, RV ' bud ' ; cf. Chaucer, Par- tonnes Tale, § 43, Student's ed. 697, 'To smelle the sote savour of the vyne whanne it florissheth ') ; Is 17" ' in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish' (-n-ipn, RV 'thou makest thy seed to blossom'); Ps 90' of the grass i]"T., Del, Cheyne 'blossoms'). (6) Metaphorically of persons or things : Ps 103" ' As for man, his days are as
* Why was.^o(c« left in 2 Ch? Because less read, and reck- oned o( liss cons.'quence ? So in the Heb. Bible some explain the presence of Esh-baal, 1 Ch 8^3 93», when the name was thanged in 2 S into Ishboiheth.
grass : as a flower of the field so he flourisheth (("»' [3 ■■nyfi r'V?, lit. ' as tlie flower of the field so h« floweretli ' : so Ps 72'" 92' 132i«, all zuz [in Hiph.], which means to bring forth flowers, and is tf* 'blossom 'in Is 27° as well as [in Qal] Ezk 7'°); Sir 39" ' flouri.sh as a lily ' (ivOfiaaTe iySos ; RV ' put forth flowers'). 2. lo shoot up quickly, or grow vigorously, again said literally of plants and metaphorically of persons and things. Thus Ezk 17-'' in the Wyclifite version of 1388 is ' Y made the drie tree to brynge forth boowis,' but the earlier version has ' Y made the drye tree for to florisshe,' which is retained in AV. In this sense are all the remaining instances of the word, the Heb. being some part of n"!?, or (in Ps 92''') the adj. \:in (Aram. Jiyn Dn 4'') ; tiie Greek di'afldXXcii', Sir V' ll'-a 461^ 49i», Ph 4'" ; and the ha.t. forcre, 2 Es 6'^.