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Anciently a position of honour; so Deborah ("seen"), ; ; . (See DEBORAH.) Figuratively; Moses was "as a nursing father bearing the sucking child" (). So . So Paul, "we were gentle" (so the Alexandrinus manuscript and the Ephraemi Rescriptus (C), epioi, but the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus 'infants,' neepioi) among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her own (Greek) children" ().