Fuller’s soap
Fuller’s soap was an alkaline cleansing substance used to wash and whiten cloth. It was made from materials such as plant ash and served as an image of thorough cleansing and purification.
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Fullers Field, The
The Fuller’s Field was a place near Jerusalem where cloth workers carried out their trade. It lay close enough to the city walls for people there to hear messages spoken from the field.
FULLNESS
Fullness means that which fills, completeness, or the total measure of something. In the New Testament it especially describes the fullness of God dwelling in Christ and the blessings believers receive through Him.
Fulness
“Fulness” may describe the appointed time when God sent the Messiah, the abundant grace found in Christ, and the complete divine nature dwelling in Him. It may also describe the church as the fulness of Christ, His body under His headship.
Funeral
Funeral customs in the Bible centered on washing, wrapping, and burying the dead, usually on the day of death. Burial was regarded as an important duty, and a meal was often held afterward.
Funerals
Funerals in biblical times included customary acts of mourning and the burial of the dead. See also Burial and Sepulchres.
Furlong
A furlong, or stadion, was an ancient Greek measure of distance equal to about 607 English feet, somewhat shorter than the modern English furlong.
Furnace
A furnace was used for baking, smelting, refining, or burning materials. Scripture also uses the furnace figuratively for severe affliction, punishment, and the final judgment of the impenitent.
FURNITURE
Furniture may mean household goods, vessels, equipment, or sacred furnishings. The tabernacle’s furniture included the altar, laver, table, lampstand, incense altar, ark, and mercy-seat.
Furrow
A furrow is an opening or ridge in ground made by a plough. Biblical writers use furrows in descriptions of cultivated fields and sometimes as figures of suffering or oppression.
Fury
When attributed to God, fury is figurative language for His righteous anger expressed in afflictive judgments. The term may also refer to violent anger or revenge.
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