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58- Fable
- Fair Havens
- Fairs
- Fallow Deer
- Famine
- Fan
- Farthing
- Fasts
- Fat
- Father
- Fathom
- Feasts
- Felix
- Fenced cities
- Ferret
- Festivals
- Festus, Porcius
- Fetters
- Field
- Fig, Fig Tree
- Fir
- Fire
- Firepan
- Firkin
- Firmament
- Firstborn
- Firstfruits
- Fish
- Fitches
- Flag
- Flagon
- Flax
- Flea
- Flesh
- Flint
- Flood
- Floor
- Flour
- Flute
- Flux, Bloody
- Fly, Flies
- Food
- Footman
- Forehead
- Forest
- Fortifications
- Fortunatus
- Fountain
- Fowl
- Fox
- Frankincense
- Frog
- Frontlets, Or Phylacteries
- Fuller
- Fullers Field, The
- Funerals
- Furlong
- Furnace
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Fable
Open directlySmith's Bible Dictionary · 1863
A fable is a narrative in which being irrational, and sometimes inanimate, are, for the purpose of moral instruction, feigned to act and speak with human interests and passions.—Encyc. Brit. The fable differs from the parable in that—