2 Kings 6:25-29
food supply ran out <07458 01419> [a great famine.]
donkey's head <07218 02543> [an ass's head.]
If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount to about 2Å“. 9s.; which was a great price for so mean a part of this unclean animal.
<01686> [dove's dung.]
This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of {pulse,} or {vetches,} which the Arabs still call pigeon's dung. "They never," says Dr. Shaw, (Travels, p. 140), "constitute a dish by themselves, but are strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe,} and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name {leblebby;}" and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.
Help .... master <03467 0113> [Help, my lord.]
Lord <03068> [If the Lord, etc. or, Let not the Lord save thee. whence.]
answered .... said <0559> [What aileth thee.]
Hand .... son .......... son <01121 05414> [Give thy son.]
next <0312> [next. Heb. other. she hath hid.]
Jeremiah 14:1-6
spoke .... about <01697> [A.M. 3399. B.C. 605. The word.]
This discourse is supposed to have been delivered after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. The Hebrew {batzaroth,} rendered dearth, signifies restraint, that is, "when the heaven is shut up that there is no rain;" which Houbigant thinks happened early in the reign of Zedekiah.
drought <01226> [the dearth. Heb. the words of the dearths, or restraints.]
mourning <056> [mourneth.]
cities <08179> [the gates.]
sorrow <06937> [they.]
Cries of distress <06682> [the cry.]
leading men <0117> [their nobles.]
cisterns <01356> [pits.]
Disappointed <0954> [they were.]
bury <02645> [covered.]
ground <0127> [the ground.]
farmers <0406> [the plowmen.]
Wild donkeys <06501> [the wild.]
pant <07602> [they.]
They sucked in the air, for want of water, to cool their internal heat.
eyes <05869> [their.]
Lamentations 4:3-10
<08577> [sea monsters. or, sea calves. the daughter.]
ostriches <03283> [like.]
tongue <03956> [tongue.]
children <05768> [the young.]
feasted <0398> [that did.]
grew up <0539> [brought.]
amid <02263> [embrace.]
punishment .... people ... that <01323 02403 05771> [punishment of the iniquity of the daughter. or, iniquity of the daughter, etc.]
punishment ...... that <05771 02403> [the punishment.]
consecrated ones <05139> [Nazarites.]
brighter <02141> [purer.]
hair <01508> [their polishing.]
{Gizrathom,} rendered by Dr. Blayney, "their veining," from {gazar,} to divide, intersect, as the blue veins do the surface of the body. This is approved by Dr. A. Clarke, who remarks, "Milk will most certainly well apply to the whiteness of the skin; the beautiful ruby to the ruddiness of the flesh; and the sapphire, in its clear, transcendent purple, to the veins in a fine complexion."
appearance <08389> [visage.]
darker ... soot <07815 02821> [blacker than a coal. Heb. darker than blackness.]
Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, "duskier than the dawn;" {shachar} signifying "the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished."
recognized <05234> [they.]
skin <05785> [their skin.]
those .......... food <01992 08570> [for.]
waste away <02100> [pine away. Heb. flow out.]
hands <03027> [hands.]
tenderhearted <07362> [pitiful.]
destroyed <07667> [in.]
