Jeremiah 12:13
sow <02232> [sown.]
work until .... exhausted <02470> [put.]
sow ......... work until .... exhausted ........... disappointed <02232 02470 0954> [they. or, ye.]
Jeremiah 41:8
kill ............................... kill <04191> [Slay.]
hidden <04301> [treasures.]
These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.
