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Autumn
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
an adjective signifying autumnal (from phthinoporon, "late autumn," from phthino, "to waste away," or "wane," and opora, "autumn"), is used in Jude 1:12 , where unfruitful and worthless men are figuratively described as trees such as they are at the close of "autumn," fruitless and leafless (AV, "trees whose fruit withereth").
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Autumn'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​a/autumn.html. 1940.