Distraction
Bible Usage:
- distraction used once.
- Bible Reference: 1 Corinthians 7:35
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: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G563 Used 1 time
DISTRACTION, noun [Latin]
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
2. Confusion from a multiplicity of objects crowding on the mind and calling the attention different ways; perturbation of mind; perplexity; as, the family was in a state of distraction [See 1 Corinthians 7:35]
3. Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as political distractions.
Never was known a night of such distraction
4. Madness; a state of disordered reason; franticness; furiousness. [We usually apply this word to a state of derangement which produces raving and violence in the patient.]
5. Folly in the extreme, or amounting to insanity.
On the supposition of the truth of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, irreligion is nothing better than distraction