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Fact

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Lit. "a deed." The word occurs only in the heading of the chapter, 2 Ki 10 the King James Version, "Jehu excuseth the fact by the prophecy of Elijah," and in 2 Macc 4:36, with reference to the murder of Onias, "certain of the Greeks that abhorred the fact (the deed) also" (summisoponēroúntōn , literally, "hating wickedness together with (others)," the Revised Version (British and American) "the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness.»
Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Fact'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​isb/​f/fact.html. 1915.