Gen 19:11, 2Ki 6:18-20, Jer 20:4-6, Luk 3:19-20, 6:10, Joh 18:6 | TSK | STEP | with blindness.The word {sanverim,} rendered "blindness," and which occurs only here, and in 2 Ki 6:18, is supposed to denote dazzlings, deceptions, or confusions of sight from excessive light; being derived by Schultens, who is followed by Parkhurst, from the Arabic {sana,} to pour forth, diffuse, and nor, light. Dr. Geddes, to the same purpose, thinks it is compounded of the Arabic {sana,} which signifies a flash, and or, light. The Targums, in both places where it occurs, render it by eruptions, or flashes of light, or as Mercer, in Robertson, explains the Chaldee word, irradiations. that they.

Genesis 19:11

with blindness.The word {sanverim,} rendered "blindness," and which occurs only here, and in 2 Ki 6:18, is supposed to denote dazzlings, deceptions, or confusions of sight from excessive light; being derived by Schultens, who is followed by Parkhurst, from the Arabic {sana,} to pour forth, diffuse, and nor, light. Dr. Geddes, to the same purpose, thinks it is compounded of the Arabic {sana,} which signifies a flash, and or, light. The Targums, in both places where it occurs, render it by eruptions, or flashes of light, or as Mercer, in Robertson, explains the Chaldee word, irradiations.

2Ki 6:18; Ac 13:11

that they.

Ec 10:15; Isa 57:10; Jer 2:36

2 Kings 6:18-20

Smite this people.Confound their sight, so that they may not know what they see; and so mistake one place for another. The word {sanverim,} rendered blindness, occurs only here and in Ge 19:11, on which see the Note.

De 28:28; Job 5:14; Zec 12:4; Joh 9:39; 12:40; Ac 13:11; Ro 11:7

follow me. Heb. come ye after me.

Mt 16:24; Mr 8:34; Lu 9:23

I will bring.

2Sa 16:18,19; Lu 24:16

open the eyes.

17; Lu 24:31

opened.

Jud 20:40-42; Lu 16:23