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eks-trem', eks-trem'-i-ti We have the adjective "extreme" in /APC 2Esdras 5:14, "extreme fear," the Revised Version (British and American) "trembling"; in /APC Wisdom 12:27, "extreme (terma) damnation," the Revised Version (British and American) "the last end of condemnation"; in /APC 2Macc 7:42, "extreme (huperballousas) tortures," the Revised Version (British and American) "exceeding barbarities"; in Ecclesiasticus 42:8 it is used as an adverb, "the extreme aged" (eschatogeros), the Revised Version (British and American) "of extreme old age." Extremity: pash; Septuagint paraptoma, occurs only in Job 35:15 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "arrogance," and akme in /APC 2Macc 1:7.