Supple
Bible Usage:
- supple used once.
- Bible Reference: Ezekiel 16:4
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H4935 Used 1 time
SUP'PLE, adjective
1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as supple joints; supple fingers.
2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate.
If punishment--makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.
3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning.
4. That makes plaint; as supple government.
SUP'PLE, verb transitive To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.
1. To make compliant.
A mother persisting till she had suppled the will of her daughter.
SUP'PLE, verb intransitive To become soft and pliant; as stones suppled into softness.
SUP'PLED, participle passive Made soft and plaint; made compliant.
SUP'PLEMENT, noun [Latin supplementum, suppleo; sub and pleo, to fill.]
1. Literally, a supply; hence, an addition to any thing by which its defects are supplied, and it is made more full and complete. The word is particularly used of an addition to a book or paper.
2. Store; supply. [Not in use.]
3. In trigonometry, the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees or a semicircle.
SUPPLEMENT'AL
SUPPLEMENT'ARY, adjective Additional; added to supply what is wanted; as a supplemental law or bill.
SUP'PLENESS, noun [from supple.] Pliancy; pliableness; flexibility; the quality of being easily bent; as the suppleness of the joints.
1. Readiness of compliance; the quality of easily yielding; facility; as the suppleness of the will.
SUP'PLETORY, adjective [from Latin suppleo, to supply.] Supplying deficiencies; as a suppletory oath.
SUP'PLETORY, noun That which is to supply what is wanted.