My gorgeous BFF beat me to writing about this word somehow... So here is her take! Thanks !!!
WHIT
The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an
iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative
sentence. "Samuel told him every whit." --1 Sam. iii. 18.
"Every whit as great." --South.
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So shall I no whit be behind in duty. --Shak.
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It does not me a whit displease. --Cowley.
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The expression "If God can use a donkey then surely he can use me" is
something I heard often growing up. You may ask how I can associate this
memory with the word "whit". The answer is quit simple. God can use any
flicker or fragment I think I am if I allow him to do it by whit.
Another meaning of the word "whit" is whole or complete. This comes from the
Greek word "holos" and is used in the New Testament twice in John 7:23
and John 13:10. So if I allow God to use me wholly he will take a
little nut shell and use it to change lives.
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