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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Mist:

('edh; achlus, homichie): Mist is caused by particles of water vapor filling the air until it is only partially transparent. Mist and haze produce much the same effect, the one being due to moisture in the atmosphere and the other to dust particles. Mist or fog is not common on the plains of Palestine and Syria at sea-level, but is of almost daily occurrence in the mountain valleys, coming up at night and disappearing with the morning sun (The Wisdom of Solomon 2:4). It is nothing else than a cloud touching the land. In the account of creation, "there went up a mist from the earth," giving a description of the warm humid atmosphere of the carboniferous ages which agrees remarkably with the teaching of modern science (Ge 2:6). The word is used figuratively in Ac 13:11 to describe the shutting out of light. Those who bring confusion and uncertainty are compared to "mists driven by a storm" (2Pe 2:17).

Written by Alfred H. Joy

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g887 Greek: achlus

Mist:

"a mist," especially a dimness of the eyes, is used in Act 13:11. "In the single place of its NT use it attests the accuracy in the selection of words, and not least of medical words, which 'the beloved physician' so often displays. For him it expresses the mist of darkness... which fell on the sorcerer Elymas, being the outward and visible sign of the inward spiritual darkness which would be his portion for a while in punishment for his resistance to the truth" (Trench, Syn., c).

2 Strong's Number: g3658 Greek: homichle

Mist:

"a mist" (not so thick as nephos and nephele, "a cloud"), occurs in 2Pe 2:17 (1st part), RV, "mists;" some mss. have nephelai, "clouds" (AV).

3 Strong's Number: g2217 Greek: zophos

Mist:

is rendered "mist" in the AV of 2Pe 2:17 (2nd part), RV, "blackness;" "murkiness" would be a suitable rendering. For this and other synonymous terms see BLACKNESS, DARKNESS.

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