Genesis 8:1-22
God remembered .................. God <02142 0430> [God remembered.]
domestic animals <0929> [the cattle.]
wind <07307> [a wind.]
fountains <04599> [fountains.]
rain <01653> [the rain.]
steadily <01980> [continually. Heb. in going and returning. hundred.]
ark <08392> [the ark.]
seventh month <02320 07637> [seventh month.]
That is, of the year, not of the deluge.
Ararat <0780> [Ararat.]
Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia, as it is rendered elsewhere, in which there is a great chain of mountains, like the Alps or the Pyrenees, upon the highest part of which, called by some, "The Finger Mountain," the ark is supposed to have rested.
on receding <02637 01980> [decreased continually. Heb. were in going and decreasing. the tenth.]
opened ... window <06605 02474> [opened the window.]
raven <06158> [a raven.]
flying back ... forth <03318 07725> [went forth to and fro. Heb. in going forth and returning.]
dove <03123> [a dove.]
find <04672> [found.]
returned <07725> [and she.]
brought <0935> [pulled her. Heb. caused her to come.]
waited <02342> [stayed.]
seven <07651> [seven.]
olive <02132> [an olive.]
waited <03176> [And he.]
seven <07651> [seven.]
six <08337> [A.M. 1657. B.C. 2347. six.]
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.
Bring out <03318> [Bring.]
increase <08317> [breed.]
groups <04940> [kinds. Heb. families.]
built <01129> [builded.]
clean animal ... clean <0929 02889> [clean beast.]
burnt offerings <05930> [burnt.]
smelled <07306> [smelled.]
soothing aroma <07381 05207> [sweet savour. Heb. savour of rest. curse.]
humankind ..... inclination .... minds <0120 03336> [for. or, though. the imagination.]
again ....................... again <03254> [neither.]
done <06213> [as I.]
earth continues to exist ............. day <0776 03117> [While the earth remaineth. Heb. as yet all the days of the earth.]
planting time <02233> [seed-time.]
Most of the European nations divide the year into four distinct parts, called quarters or seasons; but there are six divisions in the text, which obtained in Palestine among the Hebrews, and exist among the Arabs to the present day. According to this gracious promise, the heavenly bodies have preserved their courses, the seasons their successions, and the earth its increase for the use of man.
continues to exist ............. day <03117> [day.]
Genesis 35:1-15
Bethel <01008> [Beth-el.]
fled <01272> [when thou.]
household <01004> [unto his.]
foreign <05236> [strange.]
Purify <02891> [clean.]
responded <06030> [who answered.]
wherever <01870> [was with.]
rings <05141> [ear-rings.]
These rings were not worn as mere ornaments, but for superstitious purposes; perhaps as amulets or charms, first consecrated to some false god, or formed under some constellation, and stamped with magical characters. Maimonides mentions rings and jewels of this kind, with the image of the sun, moon, etc., impressed upon them; and Augustine describes them (Epist. 73,) as used for this execrable purpose.
buried ..... oak <02934 0424> [hid them.]
oak <0424> [the oak.]
Luz <03870> [Luz.]
built <01129> [built.]
<0416> [El-beth-el. i.e., the god of Beth-el.]
Rebekah's <07259> [Rebekah's.]
oak <0437> [under an oak.]
Oak of Weeping <0439> [Allon-bachuth. i.e., the oak of weeping.]
sovereign God <07706 0410> [God Almighty.]
nation ...... nations <01471> [a nation.]
land ..................... land <0776> [the land.]
gave ........ give ...... descendants I will ... give <05414 02233> [to.]
Bethel <01008> [Bethel.]
Genesis 35:2
household <01004> [unto his.]
foreign <05236> [strange.]
Purify <02891> [clean.]
Genesis 28:17-18
afraid ...... awesome <03372> [he was.]
house <01004> [the house.]
Early <07925> [rose up.]
took <03947> [and took.]
The practice of setting up stones as a memorial by travellers still exists in Persia, and other parts of the East.
placed ...... set <07760> [set it.]
poured <03332> [poured.]
Psalms 137:7
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
Edomites <01121> [the children.]
[Rase it. Heb. make bare.]
Jeremiah 49:7-22
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
wisdom ...................... wisdom <02451> [Is wisdom.]
Teman <08487> [Teman.]
flee <05127> [Flee.]
Turn <06437> [turn back. or, they are turned back. dwell.]
Dedan <01719> [Dedan.]
bring .......... decided <0935> [for.]
grape pickers <01219> [grape-gatherers.]
needed <01767> [till they have enough. Heb. their sufficiency.]
Esau's <06215> [I have made.]
hiding places <04565> [his secret.]
children <02233> [his seed.]
[he is not.]
orphans <03490> [thy fatherless.]
widows <0490> [let thy.]
deserve <04941> [they whose.]
solemnly swear <07650> [I have.]
Bozrah <01224> [Bozrah.]
object of horror <08047> [a desolation.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
messenger <06735> [an ambassador.]
Gather <06908> [Gather.]
terror <08606> [terribleness.]
home <07931> [dwellest.]
nest <07064> [though.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
pass by <05674> [every.]
hiss out their scorn <08319> [shall hiss.]
destroyed <04114> [in the.]
<0376> [no man.]
coming up <05927> [he shall come.]
thick undergrowth <01347> [the swelling.]
call ... to account <03259> [who is like.]
call ... to account <03259> [appoint me the time. or, convent me in judgment.]
ruler <07462> [that shepherd.]
what <06098> [the counsel.]
Teman <08487> [Teman.]
little ones ........... land <06810 05116> [Surely.]
The prophet having given the name of the shepherd to the generals of the army, pursues the same metaphor, calling the common soldiers, "the least of the flock;" who shall have strength and courage enough to the defeat the Idumean forces.
land <05116> [make.]
earth <0776> [earth.]
[Red sea. Heb. Weedy sea.]
soar up <05927> [he shall.]
Bozrah <01224> [Bozrah.]
soldiers ....... fearful <03820 01368> [the heart of the.]
