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Frog

Sin & Judgment • Both
A frog is an amphibious animal mentioned chiefly in the plague God sent upon Egypt. In Revelation, frogs symbolize unclean spirits proceeding from the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.

FRONTIER

Places & Geography • Old Testament
A frontier is a boundary or outer limit. The biblical word occurs in Ezekiel in the plural, with the sense of borders or surrounding quarters.

Frontlets

Jewish Life & Customs • Old Testament
Frontlets were signs worn on the forehead, based on commands to keep God’s words continually before the people. In later Jewish practice the term referred especially to phylacteries containing written passages of the Law.

Frontlets, Or Phylacteries

Jewish Life & Customs • Both
Phylacteries, or frontlets, were small leather cases containing passages from the Law and worn on the arm or forehead. Jesus criticized the Pharisees for enlarging these displays as part of their outward religious pretension.

Frost

Agriculture & Daily Life • Old Testament
Frost is frozen moisture forming a white covering on the ground and vegetation, especially on cold nights in elevated regions. Scripture presents frost and hoarfrost as signs of God’s power and as part of the hardships of life in the land.

Fruit

Christian Life • Both
Fruit may mean the produce of fields, vineyards, and trees, as well as children or offspring. Figuratively, it can describe the results of conduct, praise, righteousness, and the gracious character produced by the Holy Spirit.

Frying-pan

Agriculture & Daily Life • Old Testament
A frying-pan was a vessel used in preparing food or offerings. The biblical term may refer more broadly to a shallow pan or pot used for cooking meat or meal.

Fuel

Agriculture & Daily Life • Both
Fuel was any combustible material used to feed a fire, including wood, charcoal, thorns, dried plants, and animal dung. Scripture uses such materials in descriptions of household needs, cooking, and judgment by fire.

Fugitive

Government & Society • Old Testament
A fugitive is one who flees from danger, bondage, punishment, or military defeat, or who wanders without settled rest. The term is applied to fugitives, refugees, deserters, and those escaping oppression.

FULFIL

Scripture • Both
To fulfill means to fill up, complete, accomplish, carry out, or bring to its intended realization. The New Testament often uses it for the completion of prophetic Scripture in Christ.

Fuller

Agriculture & Daily Life • Both
A fuller cleansed, bleached, and prepared cloth, using water and alkaline substances such as soap or plant ash. Fullers worked outside cities because the process required space and could produce offensive odors.

Fuller’s field

Places & Geography • Old Testament
The Fuller’s Field was an area near Jerusalem, beside a highway and near the upper pool, where fullers washed and dried cloth. It is mentioned in accounts of Assyrian threats against the city.
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