Over the years of using your Accordance Bible on my computer, I have often run across the abbreviation, “prim.” I had thought it must mean “primary,” as a way of denoting basic words that are not formed from other words. The idea of “primitive” also occurred to me, but seemed foreign to my understanding of that word (“crude” or “undeveloped”). 

Even in the “Abbreviations” section of your Dictionary, I find this under “prim.”: “primary, primitive”! This seemed to indicate that you were taking no chances as to which it was! 

This morning I was consulting Matthew Poole's “Commentary on the Holy Bible,” on Hebrews 12:15. I found this: “Looking diligently: episkopountes notes a very strict and severe inspecting themselves; its primitive, skopein, signifieth such a looking at a thing as those who, in shooting, aim at the mark;”

 To complete my investigation, I looked up the word “primitive” in my on-line “Oxford American Dictionary.” There I found:

• Linguistics denoting a word, base, or root from which another is historically derived.

• Linguistics denoting an irreducible form.

 So it seems we may believe, with good reason, that “primitive” is the word which “aims at the mark” in your Lexicon!

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