COMPLAINED. Hebrew were as complainers, Psalms 78:19. In this word another inverted _nun_ (, _n),_ to mark the fact of the People's turning back in their hearts. See note on Numbers 10:35. IT DISPLEASED THE LORD. Hebrew "was evil in the ears of Jehovah". Some codices, with Targum of Onkelos, The Ta... [ Continue Reading ]
HE CALLED: i.e. Moses called. THE PLACE. that place. TABERAH. Hebrew "burning".... [ Continue Reading ]
MULTITUDE. camp followers. See Exodus 12:38. FELL. LUSTING. Hebrew Figure of speech _Polyptoton,_ App-6. = "lusted. lusting", emphatic for lusted exceedingly. Psalms 106:14; Psalms 78:18. CHILDREN. sons. WHO SHALL GIVE? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FISH. Six items given of Egypt's food: seven of Canaan's, in Deuteronomy 8:8. See App-10. FREELY. gratuitously. AND. Note Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ in this verse (App-6), to emphasize the six items. See Numbers 11:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR SOUL IS. Hebrew. _nephesh =_ we [are]. App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
MANNA. Compare John 6:31; 1 Corinthians 10:3. COLOUR. Hebrew "eye", put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for that which it distinguishes. Exodus 16:14; Exodus 16:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEW FELL. Manna between the two dews, compare Exodus 16:13; Exodus 16:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. DOOR. entrance. MOSES ALSO WAS DISPLEASED. it was evil in Moses' eyes, as in Numbers 11:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, &C. Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BOSOM. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. AS. even as.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHENCE, &C. Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS. the burden is. The _Ellipsis_ to be supplied according to App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY WRETCHEDNESS. Should be "thy evil", evil being put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6. One of the eighteen emendations of the Sopherim. See App-33. WRETCHEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ See App-44, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for punishment due, see above.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID. See note on Numbers 3:40. TO BE. "that [they] be". TABERNACLE. tent. Hebrew. _ohel_. App-40.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE OF. withdraw. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach,_ spirit, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the gifts and manifestations of the Holy Spirit. Compare 1 Corinthians 12:4. See App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
SANCTIFY. separate. See note on "holy". Exodus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOR. Figure of speech _Paradiastole,_ App-6, for emphasis.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOLE MONTH. a month of days.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEM. Some codices have. reading called _Sever_ (App-34), which reads "unto you".... [ Continue Reading ]
IS... ? &C. Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for power exercised by it.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE. Some codices, with The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel and Vulgate, read "Israel". TABERNACLE. Hebrew. _'ohel,_ tent. See App-40.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1. DID NOT CEASE. So the Vulgate; but Hebrew =. "did not add" (so Septuagint and Syriac), i.e. did not add any more, or again, after that day. Compare Exodus 11:6; Deuteronomy 5:22.Job 38:11; 1 Samuel 19:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'ish_ or _'enosh._ App-14. THEM. the seventy. WRITTEN. enrolled. See note on Exodus 17:14. WENT NOT OUT. Compare 1 Samuel 10:22. IN THE CAMP. Compare Psalms 139:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
A. Hebrew the, viz. the young man, to be described later.... [ Continue Reading ]
ENVIEST THOU... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Art thou jealous for me? WOULD GOD. "God" should be in italics. Figure of speech _Eonismos._ App-6. PUT HIS SPIRIT. This is the definition of. true prophet. Compare Numbers 11:17, and Numbers 12:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. FALL. Compare Psalms 78:27; Psalms 78:28. A DAY'S JOURNEY. See App-51. CUBITS. See App-51. HIGH UPON. Hebrew. "above"; i.e. "[flying] above", so that they could be easily caught. It does not say "deep".... [ Continue Reading ]
HOMERS. See Leviticus 27:16, and App-51.... [ Continue Reading ]
FLESH. Compare Psalms 78:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH. Hebrew graves of lust.... [ Continue Reading ]