J. Hastings.
FRAME.— To ' frame ' (from Old Eng. framian, to profit, succeed) is primarily to make good pro- gress, to prosper, as Melville, Diary, p. 272, ' The Bischope haid lurked a yeir or twa fyk a tod in his holl, as his custom was when things framed nocht with him.' Then it is used in a neutral sense, to get on well or LU as the case may be, as Rutherford, Letters, No. xxxii., ' But let us, how- ever matters frame, cast over the atlairs of the bride upon the Bridegroom.' And then come the various transitive meanings of preparing, fitting for use. In AV the verb is used with a direct object, except once with a foil, infinitive.
1. To contrive, to manage, Jg 12* • he could not frame to pronounce it right' (is tsiJ" |'?;, lit. ' fix to speak so,' perhaps ' fix the mind,' i.e. catch the slight difierence in the pronunciation).
• Its occurrences In LXX are Lv 28 621, Jg 953 195, 1 s S01«, 2 s 1121. 22, Ezk 1319 ; where EV give ' piece,' except Jg !•• ' morsel ' (of bread), and Ezk 1319 ' handful ' (of barley).
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Cf. licfurn from Pnrnass. IV. v. 62 (2nd pt.), ' SchoUers must frame to liue at a low sayle.'
2. To direct, Hos 5* ' They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God ' (5:b: n'?, lit. as AVm ' they will not give ' ; RV as AVm. ' Their doings will not sutler thera to turn unto their God, with AV text in marg.). Cf. Rutherford, Letters, No. clxxxvii., ' Frame yourself for Christ, and gloom not upon his Cross : Ps 145-' (L. M.), Stem, and Hopk. —
• Therefore my mouth and lips I'll frame To speak the praises of the Lord.'
3. To form. Is 29" ' Shall the thing framed say of him that framed it. He had no understanding ? ' (iis'^ -i,?N ix- ; Amer. RV ' formed ') ; and in RV, Jot 10* 'Thine hands have framed me and fasliioned me ' (-jiai-y ; AV ' made me'). So Ps lOG", Stem, and Hopk. —
' Upon the hill of Horeb they &n idol^calf did (lame * ; and Shaks. Merch. of Venice, I. L 51 —
• Nature hath framed Strang fellows in her time.'
4. To fit together, make, Eph 2^ ' all the build- ing fitly framed together ' {crmapiioXoyoviiivrj) ; He II' ' the worlds were framed by the word of God ' (rarTjpricrfloi) ; and in RV, Epli 4" 'all tlie body fitly framed and knit together * {(Twap^oKoyoOtievov). Cf. Spenser, FQ u. ii. 30—
* And, thinking of those branches green to frame A girlond for her dainty forehead fit, He pluckt a bough ; out of whose rift there came Smal drops of gory bloud, that triclded down the same.'
6. To devise, Ps 50" ' thy tongue frameth deceit ' (Tpsn) ; 94* ' which frameth mischief ' (-Cf) ; Jer 18" ' Behold, I frame evil against you ' (■DfV) ; and in Amer. RV, Dt 31»' ' I know their imagination which they frame ' (■"iV'y, lit. ' do,' EV ' go about '). So Barclay (1514), Cyt. (Percy Soc.)23—
* Than frame they fraudes men slyly to begyle * ; and Ps 10', Stem, and Hopk. —
' In these devices they have framed Let them be taken sure.*
6. To express, embody, 2 Mac 15" 'speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story ' (t6 t^s KoracDcei^j rov \byov ; RV ' the fashioning of the language '). AV is a modifi- cation of the Geneva tr", ' the setting out of the matter,' and may be illustrated from Milton, PL T. 460—
• Hifl wary speech Tbne to tb' empyreal minister he framed.'
As a tubst. ' frame ' occurs twice in AV, and means something constructed. 1. The structure of the body, Ps 103" ' he knoweth our frame ; he remembereth that we are dust ' (""!>:). To this RV adds Ps 139" ' My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret' {"•i'J, AV 'my substance,' AVm ' or, strength ; or, body ') ; and Amer. RV, Job 41" 'his [leviathan '.s] goodly frame ' Cis?!' pn, EV ' his comely proportion ). So frequently in Paraphrases in Verse (1775), as 57* —
• With sympathetic feelings touch'd He luiows our feeble frame ' ; and 51''—
* We know, that when the soul uncloath'd Shall from this body Hie, Twit] animate a purer frame With life that cannot die.'
2. The structure of a city, Ezk 40* ' a very high mountain, by which was as tlie frame of a city ' (Ty-nj2C?, Davidson, ' a building of a city, that is, a city-like or citadel like building').
3. 'RV adds Nu 4'»- ", a frame Jit ted together for carrying tilings upon (did, AV ' bar ').
J. Hastings. FRANKINCENSE (njh^ Ubh£nAh, MiSafot, X./Sai--
wris). — LebhAnih is erroneously tr'' in some places in AV ' incense ' (Is 43-° 60«, Jer 6=" etc. In RV it is correctly rendered /ranA-iTK-en^e). Incense, how- ever, is the proper rendering of another word .TiiDp klturdh. Tliis substance was compounded of f. and other aromatic gums, and seasoned with salt (Ex 30*^'"), ot sweet, i.e. not so seasoned (Ex 25', Lv 16"). AU incense not so made was a strange incense, and could not be otl'ered (Ex 30*, cf. 'strange fire ' Lv 10').