

deadline if you said they’d have it by 10:00-ish.
#WORDISH DEFINITION FREE#
Why express yourself fully or commit when you can have an out? –ish is your free pass. By freely adding-ish you’re not bound by specifics. So what’s the big deal? For starters, it’s frankly non-committal. Maybe it’s lilac, but maybe it’s aubergine… so it’s purple-ish. Why say approximately or almost or somewhat when you can simply add –ish to any word or number? Anyone can use it as an extension to a word to allow room for interpretation. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary makes -ish official with this definition: Revelation 21:2: And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.It’s official: The suffix - ish has replaced words such as around, almost, approximately, about, and somewhat. Revelation 19:7: Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.”Įphesians 1:4: For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.Įphesians 5:25-27: Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that she would be holy and blameless. Revelation 22:17: The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.Ģ Corinthians 11:2: For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy for I betrothed you to one husband so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. Luke 5:34: And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? Matthew 9:15 : And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. John 3:29: He who has the bride is the bridegroom but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. As a young man marries a young woman, so will your Builder marry you as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. But you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah for the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married.

Isaiah 62:4-5 : No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

All who ate of it incurred guilt disaster came upon them, declares the Lord.” Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel. Israel was holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest. Jeremiah 2:2-4: The word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. Jeremiah 31:32 : Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. Hosea 2:19: And I will betroth you to me forever. Isaiah 54:5 : For your Maker is your husband-the Lord Almighty is his name-the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer he is called the God of all the earth.
