| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life. 2. (n.) That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune. 3. (n.) That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort. 4. (n.) Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune. 5. (n.) To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. 6. (n.) To provide with a fortune. 7. (n.) To presage; to tell the fortune of. 8. (v. i.) To fall out; to happen. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia FORTUNE for'-tun (Gad): A god of Good Luck, possibly the Hyades.
See ASTROLOGY, 10. |  | Multi-Version Concordance Fortune (7 Occurrences) Acts 16:16 It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. (WEB WEY NAS NIV) Genesis 30:11 And Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name Gad. (See JPS RSV NIV) Job 31:25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; (See NIV) Job 42:10 And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before. (See JPS NAS RSV) Isaiah 65:11 "But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 17:11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, 'Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool. (See NAS) Zephaniah 2:7 And the coast hath been for the remnant of the house of Judah, By them they have pleasure, In houses of Ashkelon at even they lie down, For inspect them doth Jehovah their God, And He hath turned back 'to' their captivity. (See NAS RSV NIV) |
