Gen 31:34, 1Sa 30:17, Est 8:10, 14 | TSK | STEP | had taken. furniture.The word, {car,} rendered "furniture," properly denotes "a large round pannier," placed one on each side of a camel, for a person, especially women, to ride in. It is a hamper, like a cradle, having a back, head, and sides, like a great chair. Moryson describes them as "two long chairs like cradles, covered with red cloth, to hang on the two sides of the camel." Hanway calls them {kedgavays,} which "are a kind of covered chairs, which the Persians hang over their camels in the manner of {panniers,} and are big enough for one person to sit in." Thevenot, who calls then {counes,} says that they lay over them a cover, which keeps then both from the rain and sun; and Maillet describes them as covered cages, hanging on each side of a camel. The late Editor of Calmet has furnished a correct delineation of these cars, as seen on one side of a camel, copied from Dalton's Prints of Egyptian Figures. searched. Heb. felt.

Genesis 31:34

had taken.

furniture.The word, {car,} rendered "furniture," properly denotes "a large round pannier," placed one on each side of a camel, for a person, especially women, to ride in. It is a hamper, like a cradle, having a back, head, and sides, like a great chair. Moryson describes them as "two long chairs like cradles, covered with red cloth, to hang on the two sides of the camel." Hanway calls them {kedgavays,} which "are a kind of covered chairs, which the Persians hang over their camels in the manner of {panniers,} and are big enough for one person to sit in." Thevenot, who calls then {counes,} says that they lay over them a cover, which keeps then both from the rain and sun; and Maillet describes them as covered cages, hanging on each side of a camel. The late Editor of Calmet has furnished a correct delineation of these cars, as seen on one side of a camel, copied from Dalton's Prints of Egyptian Figures.

searched. Heb. felt.

1 Samuel 30:17

the next day. Heb. their morrow. and there.

11:11; Jud 4:16; 1Ki 20:29,30; Ps 18:42

Esther 8:10

in the king.

1Ki 21:8; Ec 8:4; Da 4:1

by posts.

3:13; 2Ch 30:6; Job 9:25; Jer 51:21

mules.{Rechesh,} in Syriac, {rechesha,} probably denotes a swift horse.

camels.{Achashteranim,} from the Persian {akhash,} large, and {aster,} a mule, probably, as Bochart supposes, denotes a large mule.

young dromedaries.{Beney harammachim,} "the sons of mares," as the word {ramakat} denotes in Arabic; probably an expletive of the preceeding word.

Isa 60:6; 66:20; Jer 2:23

Esther 8:14

being hastened.

1Sa 21:8; Ec 9:10

Shushan.

1:2; 2:3; 3:15; Ne 1:1; Da 8:2