Genesis 41:48
34-36; 47:21Exodus 1:11
to afflict.3:7; 5:15; Ge 15:13; Nu 20:15; De 26:6burdens.2:11; 5:4,5; Ps 68:13; 81:6; 105:13Raamses.Ge 47:11; Pr 27:42 Chronicles 26:10
digged many wells. or, cut out many cisterns.Ge 26:18-21he had much.2Ki 3:4; 1Ch 27:26-31Carmel. or, fruitful fields.2Ki 19:23; Isa 29:17husbandry. Heb.ground.Jeremiah 41:8
Slay.Job 2:4; Ps 49:6-8; Pr 13:8; Mt 6:25; 16:26; Mr 8:36,37; Php 3:7-9treasures.These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.
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