Lectionary Calendar
Friday, October 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Nurse
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Anciently a position of honour; so Deborah ("seen"), Genesis 24:59; Genesis 35:8; Ruth 4:16. (See DEBORAH.) Figuratively; Moses was "as a nursing father bearing the sucking child" (Numbers 11:12). So Isaiah 49:23. So Paul, "we were gentle" (so the Alexandrinus manuscript and the Ephraemi Rescriptus (C), epioi , but the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus 'infants,' neepioi ) among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her own (Greek) children" (1 Thessalonians 2:7).
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Nurse'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/n/nurse.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Nurse'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/n/nurse.html. 1949.
