Genesis 21:1-34
visited <06485> [visited.]
Sarah ...... said ....... Sarah ..... promised <08283 0559 01696> [Sarah as.]
pregnant <02029> [conceived.]
appointed time <04150> [at the set.]
God <0430> [God.]
laugh <06712> [to laugh.]
Sarah most likely remembered the circumstance mentioned in ch. 18:12; and also the name Isaac, which implies laughter.
laugh <06711> [will laugh.]
would <04448> [Who.]
birth <03205> [for I.]
weaned ............. weaned <01580> [A.M. 2111. B.C. 1893. and was.]
feast <04960> [feast.]
Sarah <08283> [Sarah.]
Egyptian <04713> [Egyptian.]
mocking <06711> [mocking.]
Banish <01644> [Cast out.]
The word rendered "cast out," signifies also to divorce. See Le 21:7. In this latter sense, it may be understood here.
heir <03423> [heir.]
because <0182> [because.]
<08085> [hearken.]
Isaac <03327> [in Isaac.]
Early <07925> [A.M. 2112. B.C. 1892. rose up.]
took <03947> [took.]
child <03206> [child.]
Or, youth, (see ver. 12, 20,) as Ishmael was now 16 or 17 years of age.
sent <07971> [sent.]
wandering aimlessly <08582> [wandered.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba.]
So called when Moses wrote; but not before Abraham's covenant with Abimelech, ver. 31. Such instances of the figure prolepsis are not infrequent in the Pentateuch.
water <04325> [the water.]
shoved ... child <07993 03206> [and she cast the child.]
Or, "and she sent the lad," to screen him from the intensity of the heat.
watch <07200> [Let.]
<05375> [lift.]
heard ............................ heard <08085> [heard.]
angel <04397> [the angel.]
Hagar ........... Hagar <01904> [What.]
afraid <03372> [fear.]
make <07760> [I will.]
God <0430> [God.]
<07235> [an archer.]
wilderness <04057> [in the.]
wife <0802> [a wife.]
Abimelech <040> [A.M. 2118. B.C. 1886. Abimelech.]
God <0430> [God.]
swear <07650> [swear.]
deceive ... my children or my <08266 05209> [that thou wilt not deal falsely with me. Heb. if thou shalt lie unto me. I have.]
lodged a complaint <03198> [reproved.]
concerning <0182> [because.]
Wells of water were of great consequence in those hot countries, especially where the flocks were numerous; because water was scarce, and digging to find it was attended with the expense of much time and labour.
servants <05650> [servants.]
know <03045> [I wot.]
"Wot," though used for the present, is the past tense of the almost obsolete word "to wit," from the Saxon {witan,} to know.
took <03947> [took.]
made <03772> [made.]
proof <05713> [a witness.]
named <07121> [called.]
[Beer-sheba. i.e., The well of the oath, or the well of the seven: alluding to the seven ewe lambs. The verb rendered "to swear" is derived from the word translated seven.]
.# 14 26:23 Jos 15:28 Jud 20:1 2Sa 17:11 1Ki 4:25
Philistines <06430> [the Philistines.]
tamarisk tree <0815> [grove. or, tree.]
The original word {eshel,} has been variously translated a grove, a plantation, an orchard, a cultivated field, and an oak; but it may denote a kind of tamarisk, as it is rendered by Gesenius, the same with the Arabic {athl.}
Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba.]
worshiped <07121> [called.]
Lord <08034> [on the name.]
Dr. Shuckford justly contends, that the expression rendered, "he called on the name," signifies "he invoked in the name."
eternal <05769> [everlasting.]
Genesis 8:14
From this, it appears, that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year, or 365 days; for he entered it on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the 600th year of his life, and continued in it till the 27th day of the 2nd month, in the 601st year of his life, as we see above.
Ezra 4:1
enemies <06862> [the adversaries.]
These were the Samaritans, the descendants of the various nations with which the kings of Assyria had peopled Israel, when they had carried the original inhabitants captive.
exiles <01473 01121> [children of the captivity. Heb. sons of the transportation.]
Ezra 4:4
discourage <07503> [weakened.]
<0926> [troubled.]
Ezra 4:7
Artaxerxes .............. Artaxerxes <0783> [A.M. 3482. B.C. 522. Artaxerxes.]
This Artaxerxes was one of the Magi, who usurped the throne after the death of Cambyses, for seven months, feigning himself to be Smerdis, brother of Cambyses: he is called Oropoestus by Justin, Smerdis by Herodotus, Mardus by AEschylus, and Sphendatates by Ctesias.
Bishlam <01312> [Bishlam. or, in peace. companions. Heb. societies.]
Aramaic ..... Aramaic <0762> [the Syrian tongue.]
That is, probably, both the language and character were Syrian or Chaldaic; and therefore, from the 8th verse of this chapter, to ch. 7:27, the original is not Hebrew, but Chaldee, in those parts which consist of letters, decrees, etc., originally written in that language.
Ezra 5:3
Tattenai <08674> [Tatnai.]
Tatnai was governor of the provinces which belonged to the Persian empire west of the Euphrates, comprehending Syria, Arabia Deserta, Phoenicia, and Samaria. He seems to have been a mild and judicious man, and to have acted with great prudence and caution, and without any passion or prejudice.
Who gave <04479 07761> [Who hath commanded you.]
Jeremiah 50:17-18
scattered <06340> [a scattered.]
lions <0738> [the lions.]
First <07223> [first.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [this.]
punish ............ punished <06485> [as I.]
Daniel 12:7
raised <07311> [he held.]
lives <02416> [liveth.]
time times ..... time <04150> [that it.]
time times ..... time <04150> [a time.]
That is, 1,260 years, to be reckoned from the time the "saints were delivered into the hand" of "the little horn."
half <02677> [an half. or, a part. and when.]
holy <06944> [the holy.]
Habakkuk 3:14
heads <07218> [the head.]
storm <05590> [they.]
storm <05590> [came out. Heb. were tempestuous.]
shout with joy <05951> [their.]
