jep´ard , jep´ar - 501 : The Eng, word referred originally to a game where the chances were even (from OFr. jeu parti ); transferred thence to designate any great risk. In the New Testament, represented by the Greek verb kinduneúō ( Luke 8:23; 1 Corinthians 15:30 ). In the Old Testament (Judges 5:18 ) for a Hebrew idiom, "despise the soul," i.e. they placed a small value upon their lives (Vulgate "offered their souls to death"); for elliptical expression, "went with their lives," in 2 Samuel 23:17 m.
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