Fine
Fine
or mulct for damages (q.v.). In some instances, by the Mosaic law, the amount of a fine, or of an indemnification that was to be made, was determined by the person who had been injured; in other instances it was fixed by the judge, and in others was defined by the, law (Exo 21:19-36; Deu 22:19; Deu 22:29). Twofold, fourfold, and even fivefold restitution of things stolen, and restitution of property unjustly retained, with twenty percent over and above, was required. Thus, if a man killed a beast, he was to make it good, beast for beast. This ordinance, observes Michaelis (Laws of Moses, art. 160), appears only incidentally in Lev 24:18, among criminal laws. If an ox pushed or gored another man’s servant to death, his owner was bound to pay for the servant thirty shekels of silver (Exo 21:32). In the case of one man’s ox pushing or goring another’s to death, it would have been a very intricate point to ascertain which of the two had been to blame for the quarrel, and therefore both owners were obliged to bear the loss. The living ox was sold, and the price, together with the dead one, equally divided between them (Exo 21:35). If, however, the ox had previously been notorious for pushing, and the owner had not taken care to confine him, this made a difference; for then, to the man whose ox had been pushed, he was obliged to give another, and the dead ox he got himself (Exo 21:36). If a- man dug a pit and did not cover it, or let an old pit belonging to him remain open, and another man’s beast fell into it, the owner of the pit was obliged to pay for the beast, and had it for the payment (Exo 21:33-34). When a fire was kindled in the fields, and did any damage, he who kindled it was obliged to make the damage good (Exo 22:6). SEE PUNISHMENT.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Fine
FINE.The verb to fine (mod. refine) is used in Job 28:1 Surely there is a vein for silver, and a place for gold where they fine it (RV [Note: Revised Version.] which they refine). Fining occurs in Pro 17:3; Pro 27:21; and finer in Pro 25:4 a vessel for the finer (Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] refiner). See Refiner.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Fine
fn (adj., from Latin finire, to finish): Indicates superior quality. Only in a few instances does fine represent a separate word: (1) tobh, good, qualifies gold (2Ch 3:5, 2Ch 3:8, fine gold; compare Gen 2:12, good); fine gold (Lam 4:1, the King James Version most fine gold, the Revised Version (British and American) most pure gold, literally, good fine gold), copper (Ezr 8:27, the Revised Version (British and American) fine bright brass); tabh, Aramaic (Dan 2:32, fine gold). (2) paz, refined (Son 5:11, the most fine gold). (3) helebh, fatness, the best of any kind; compare Gen 45:18; Deu 32:14, etc. (Psa 81:16, the finest of the wheat, the Revised Version, margin Hebrew fat of wheat). (4) sark, fine combed (Isa 19:9, fine flax, the Revised Version (British and American) combed flax).
In other places it expresses a quality of the substantive: kethem, fine gold (Job 31:24; Dan 10:5, the Revised Version (British and American) pure gold); paz, used as a noun for refined gold (Job 28:17; Psa 19:10; Pro 8:19; Isa 13:12; Lam 4:2); haruc, fine gold (Pro 3:14; compare Psa 68:13, yellow gold); soleth, flour, rendered fine flour, rolled or crushed small (Lev 2:1, Lev 2:4, Lev 2:5, Lev 2:7, etc.); semdalis, the finest wheaten flour (Rev 18:13); kemah soleth, fine meal (Gen 18:6); sadhn, linen garment (Septuagint , sindon, Pro 31:24 the King James Version; Isa 3:23); shesh, white, fine linen (Gen 41:42; Exo 25:4, etc.); in Pro 31:22 the King James Version has silk; shesh (Eze 16:13, fine flour); ‘etun, what is twisted or spun, yarn (Pro 7:16 the King James Version, fine linen of Egypt the Revised Version (British and American) yarn of Egypt); buc, fine white cloth, cotton or linen, fine linen (1Ch 4:21; Eze 27:16, etc.; 2Ch 5:12, King James Version white, the Revised Version (British and American) fine); bussos, byssus, linen from buc Septuagint for which, 2Ch 2:14; 2Ch 3:14), deemed very fine and precious, worn only by the rich (Luk 16:19; Rev 18:12); bussinos, byssine made of fine linen, Septuagint for buc (1 Ch 5:27) (Rev 18:16, clothed in fine linen, the Revised Version (British and American) arrayed, Rev 19:8, Rev 19:14); sindon, fine linen (Mk 5:46, He bought fine linen, the Revised Version (British and American) a linen cloth; compare Mar 14:51, Mar 14:52; Mat 27:59; Luk 23:53); it was used for wrapping the body at night, also for wrapping round dead bodies; sindon is Septuagint for sadhn (Jdg 14:12, Jdg 14:13; Pro 31:24); chalkolbanon (Rev 1:15; Rev 2:18, the King James Version fine brass).
The meaning of this word has been much discussed; chalkos is brass in Greek (with many compounds), and libanos is the Septuagint for lebhonah, frankincense, which word was probably derived from the root labhan, to burn; this would give glowing brass, as if they burned in a furnace; in Dan 10:6 it is nehosheth kalal, the King James Version polished brass, the Revised Version (British and American) burnished (kalal is to glow). Plumptre deemed it a hybrid word composed of the Greek chalkos, brass, and the Hebrew labhan, white, a technical word, such as might be familiar to the Ephesians; the Revised Version (British and American) has burnished brass; Weymouth, silver-bronze when it is white-hot in a furnace; the whiteness being expressed by the second half of the Greek word. See Thayer’s Lexicon (s.v.).
In Apocrypha we have fine linen, bussinos (1 Esdras 3:6), fine bread; the adjective katharos, separate (Judith 10:5, the Revised Version, margin pure bread); fine flour (Ecclesiasticus 35:2; 38:11); semdalis (Bel and the Dragon verse 3; 2 Macc 1:8, the Revised Version (British and American) meal offering).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Fine
A penalty
Exo 22:1; Exo 22:4; Exo 22:7-9; Lev 5:15-16; Lev 6:5-6; Pro 6:30-31 Damages
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Fine
* For FINE see BRASS, No. 4, FLOUR, GOODLY, Note, LINEN