Exo 8:2, 16:24, 1Ki 21:23-24, 2Ki 9:26, 34-37, Psa 107:40, Isa 23:9 | TSK | STEP | refuse. frogs.The Hebrew {tzephardêim} is evidently the same with the Arabic {zafda,} Chaldaic {oordeânaya,} and Syriac {oordeai,} all of which denote frogs, as almost all interpreters, both ancient and modern, agree to render it; Bochart conceives, from {tzifa,} a bank, and {radâ,} mud, because of delighting in muddy and marshy places.

Exodus 8:2

refuse.

frogs.The Hebrew {tzephardêim} is evidently the same with the Arabic {zafda,} Chaldaic {oordeânaya,} and Syriac {oordeai,} all of which denote frogs, as almost all interpreters, both ancient and modern, agree to render it; Bochart conceives, from {tzifa,} a bank, and {radâ,} mud, because of delighting in muddy and marshy places.

Ps 78:45; 105:30; Re 16:13,14

Exodus 16:24

20,33

1 Kings 21:23-24

Jezebel.

25; 2Ki 9:10,30-37

the dogs.Shocking as this must appear to minds that have been humanized by the kindly influence of Christianity, we still find similar instances in the accounts of modern travellers. Mr. Bruce says, that when at Gondar, "the bodies of those killed by the sword were hewn to pieces and scattered about the streets, being denied burial. I was miserable, and almost driven to despair, at seeing my hunting dogs, twice let loose by the carelessness of my servants, bringing into the court-yard the heads and arms of slaughtered men, and which I could no way prevent, but by the destruction of the dogs themselves."

wall. or, ditch.

that dieth.

14:11; 16:4; Isa 14:19; Jer 15:3; Eze 32:4,5; 39:18-20; Re 19:18