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FORGET; FORGETFUL for-get', for-get'-ful (shakhach; epilanthanomai): "Forget" is to fail to hold in mind, and the forgetfulness may be either innocent or blameworthy. In the Old Testament the word is most frequently used as translation of shakhach in a blameworthy sense: to forget the covenant, the law, Yahweh their God (Dt 4:9,23,11; 6:12; Jdg 3:7; 1 Sam 12:9; Ps 44:20, etc.). In an innocent or neutral, sometimes good, sense it is used in Gen 27:45; Dt 24:19; Job 9:27; 11:16; 24:20; Ps 102:4, etc. It is also used of God forgetting or not seeming to care (Ps 9:12; 10:11,12; 13:1; 42:9; 77:9; Isa 49:15, etc.). To "forget" sometimes means to forsake (Ps 45:10; 74:19, etc.). In the New Testament epilanthanomai is used of simple forgetting (Mt 16:5; Mk 8:14, etc.; in Lk 12:6 the sense of care is implied); Phil 3:13, "forgetting the things which are behind," has the force of leaving behind. "Forgetful" in Jas 1:25 is epilesmone, the Revised Version (British and American) "a hearer that forgetteth." "Forgetfulness" Ps 88:12, "the land of forgetfulness," is a synonym for Sheol, where all forget and are forgotten. the Revised Version (British and American) has "forget not" for "be ignorant of" (2 Pet 3:8; similarly 3:5). W. L. Walker |
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'FORGET; FORGETFUL'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.
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