Foam

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Foam - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(Hos. 10:7), the rendering of ketseph, which properly means twigs or splinters (as rendered in the LXX. and marg. R.V.). The expression in Hosea may therefore be read, "as a chip on the face of the water," denoting the helplessness of the piece of wood as compared with the irresistable current.

Foam - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

FOAM, n. [L. fumo, to smoke, to foam.]

Froth; spume; the substance which is formed on the surface of liquors by fermentation or violent agitation, consisting of bubbles.

FOAM, v.i.

1. To froth; to gather foam. The billows foam. A horse foams at the mouth when violently heated.

2. To be in a rage; to be violently agitated.

He foameth and gnasheth with his teeth. Mark 9.

FOAM, v.t. To throw out with rage or violence; with out.

Foaming out their own shame. Jude 13.

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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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