James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Trance

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Trance


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TRANCE.—A condition in which the mental powers are partly or wholly unresponsive to external impressions while dominated by subjective excitement, or left fres to contemplate mysteries incapable of apprehension by the usual rational processes. The word occurs in EV [Note: English Version.] only in Num_24:4; Num_24:15 [but cf. RV [Note: Revised Version.] ], Act_10:10; Act_11:5; Act_22:17. See, further, artt. Dreams, Vision.

H. L. Willett.