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UNCERTAIN; UNCERTAINTY

un-sur'-tin,un-sur'-tin-ti: Adjective adelos, 2 Macc 7:34; 1 Corinthians 14:8; adverb adelos, 1 Corinthians 9:26; noun adelotes, 1 Timothy 6:17; adelos means "not clear," and so "uncertain." Also the King James Version The Wisdom of Solomon 9:14 for episphales, "unsteady," the Revised Version (British and American) "prone to fall."

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Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.