Psalms 80:8-13
vine <01612> [a vine.]
drove <01644> [thou hast cast.]
This most elegant allegory, which is every where well supported, is frequently employed by sacred writers: see the Parallel Passages.
cleared <06437> [preparedst.]
root <08328> [to take.]
filled <04390> [and it.]
highest cedars <0730 0410> [goodly cedars. Heb. cedars of God.]
break down <06555> [broken.]
boars <02386> [The boar.]
This wild boar, {chazir,} is the parent stock of our domestic hog. He is much smaller, but stronger, and more undaunted, colour, an iron grey inclining to black; snout, longer than that of the common breed: ears comparatively short; tusks, very formidable; and habits, fierce and savage. He is particularly destructive to corn-fields and vineyards.
Isaiah 5:1-4
sing <07891> [Now.]
love ........... love <03039> [well-beloved.]
vineyard ...... vineyard <03754> [touching.]
fertile hill <07161 01121> [a very fruitful hill. Heb. the horn of the son of oil.]
built a hedge ...... stones <05823 05619> [fenced it. or, made a wall about it.]
planted <05193> [planted.]
vine <08321> [the choicest vine.]
{Sorek,} in Arabic, {sharik,} certainly denotes an excellent vine; but some with Bp. Lowth, retain it as a proper name. Sorek was a valley lying between Askelon and Gaza, so called from the excellence of its vines.
built <01129> [and built.]
constructed <02672> [made. Heb. hewed. a winepress.]
waited for <06960> [he looked.]
sour ones <0891> [wild grapes.]
decide <08199> [judge.]
Jeremiah 2:21
planted <05193> [Yet I.]
best <0571> [wholly.]
produces rotten foul-smelling grapes <05494> [into the degenerate.]
Matthew 21:19-20
fig tree .............................. fig tree <4808> [fig-tree. Gr. one fig-tree. and found]
will there be <1096> [Let.]
fig tree .............................. fig tree <4808> [the fig-tree.]
How <4459> [How.]
Mark 11:12-14
next day <1887> [on.]
he was hungry <3983> [he was.]
After noticing <1492> [seeing.]
a fig tree <4808> [a fig-tree.]
The fig-tree, [suke <\\See definition 4808\\>,] is a genus of the polygamia triaecia class of plants, seldom rising above twelve feet, but sending off from the bottom many spreading branches. The leaves are of a dark green colour, nearly a span long, smooth, and irregularly divided into from three to five deep rounded lobes; and the fruit grows on short and thick stalks, of a purplish colour, and contains a soft, sweet, and fragrant pulp, intermixed with numerous small seeds.
<686> [haply.]
he could find ........... he found <2147> [he found.]
for <1063> [for.]
Dr. Campbell observes, that the declaration, "for the time of [ripe, Ed.] figs was not yet," is not the reason why our Lord did not find any fruit on the tree, because the fig is of that class of vegetables in which the fruit is formed in its immature state before the leaves are seen. But as the fruit is of a pulpy nature, the broad, thick leaves come out in profusion to protect it from the rays of the sun during the time it is ripening. If the words, "for the time," etc. however, are read as a parenthesis, they then become a reason why Jesus Christ should look for fruit, because the season for gathering not having fully come, it would remove all suspicion that the fruit had been gathered: while the presence of the leaves incontestably proved the advance of the tree to the state in which fruit is found.
<3367> [No.]
