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for-get´, for-get´ful (ש××›×—, shaÌ„khahÌ£; ἐπιλανθαÌνομαι, epilanthaÌnomai): “Forget†is to fail to hold in mind, and the forgetfulness may be either innocent or blameworthy. In the Old Testament the word is most frequently used as translation of shaÌ„khahÌ£ in a blameworthy sense: to forget the covenant, the law, Yahweh their God (, , ; ; ; ; , etc.). In an innocent or neutral, sometimes good, sense it is used in ; ; ; ; ; , etc. It is also used of God forgetting or not seeming to care (; , ; ; ; ; , etc.). To “forget†sometimes means to forsake (; , etc.).
In the New Testament epilanthanomai is used of simple forgetting (; , etc.; in the sense of care is implied); , “forgetting the things which are behind,†has the force of leaving behind. “Forgetful†in is epileÌ„smoneÌ„Ì, the Revised Version (British and American) “a hearer that forgetteth.†“Forgetfulness†, “the land of forgetfulness,†is a synonym for Sheol, where all forget and are forgotten. the Revised Version (British and American) has “forget not†for “be ignorant of†(; similarly ).