Ecclesiastes 7:6), animal excrements (Ezekiel 4:12-15; 15:4, 6; 21:32).
Wood or charcoal is much used still in all the towns of Syria and Egypt. It
is largely brought from the region of Hebron to Jerusalem. (See COAL.)
- FUGITIVE Genesis 4:12, 14, a rover or wanderer (Hebrews n’a); Judges
12:4, a refugee, one who has escaped (Hebrews palit); 2 Kings 25:11, a
deserter, one who has fallen away to the enemy (Hebrews nophel); Ezekiel
17:21, one who has broken away in flight (Hebrews mibrah); Isaiah 15:5;
43:14, a breaker away, a fugitive (Hebrews beriah), one who flees away. - FULLER The word “full” is from the Anglo-Saxon fullian, meaning “to
whiten.” To full is to press or scour cloth in a mill. This art is one of great
antiquity. Mention is made of “fuller’s soap” (Malachi 3:2), and of “the
fuller’s field” (2 Kings 18:17). At his transfiguration our Lord’s rainment is
said to have been white “so as no fuller on earth could white them” (Mark
9:3). En-rogel (q.v.), meaning literally “foot-fountain,” has been interpreted
as the “fuller’s fountain,” because there the fullers trod the cloth with their
feet. - FULLER’S FIELD a spot near Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 36:2; 7:3),
on the side of the highway west of the city, not far distant from the
“upper pool” at the head of the valley of Hinnom. Here the fullers pursued
their occupation. - FULLER’S SOAP (Hebrews borith mekabbeshim, i.e., “alkali of those
treading cloth”). Mention is made (Proverbs 25:20; Jeremiah 2:22) of nitre
and also (Malachi 3:2) of soap (Hebrews borith) used by the fuller in his
operations. Nitre is found in Syria, and vegetable alkali was obtained from
the ashes of certain plants. (See SOAP.) - FULNESS (1.) Of time (Galatians 4:4), the time appointed by God, and
foretold by the prophets, when Messiah should appear. (2.) Of Christ
(John 1:16), the superabundance of grace with which he was filled. (3.) Of
the Godhead bodily dwelling in Christ (Colossians 2:9), i.e., the whole
nature and attributes of God are in Christ. (4.) Ephesians 1:23, the church
as the fulness of Christ, i.e., the church makes Christ a complete and
perfect head. - FUNERAL Burying was among the Jews the only mode of disposing of
corpses (Genesis 23:19; 25:9; 35:8, 9, etc.).