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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 17:19 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
2Sa 17:19 |
Strong Concordance |
And the woman [0802] took [03947] and spread [06566] a covering [04539] over the well's [0875] mouth [06440], and spread [07849] ground corn [07383] thereon; and the thing [01697] was not known [03045]. |
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King James |
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
A covering - Hebrew "the covering," perhaps "the hanging" or "awning" at the door of the house, as the word seems to mean when spoken of the tabernacle.
Ground corn - Or "peeled barley," which she spread out as if for the purpose of drying it in the sun. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
And the man's wife spread a covering (המּסך, the covering which she had close at hand) over the well (over the opening into the cistern), and scattered groats (ריפות, peeled barley: Pro 27:22) upon it, so that nothing was noticed. The Vulgate explanation is a very good one: "quasi siccans ptisanas" (as if drying peeled barley). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Spread corn - Under pretence of drying it by the sun: which shews it was summer - time. |
22 Though thou shouldest bray [03806] a fool [0191] in a mortar [04388] among [08432] wheat [07383] with a pestle [05940], yet will not his foolishness [0200] depart [05493] from him.