Judg 13:5, 16:17, 19, 1Sa 1:11, Lam 4:7-8, 1Cor 11:10-15 | TSK | STEP

a man child. Heb. seed of men. I will give.Samuel, as a descendent of Levi, was the Lord's property, from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite.

there.

Nu 6:5; Jud 13:5

Lamentations 4:7-8

Nazarites.

Nu 6:2-21; Jud 13:5,7; 16:17; Am 2:11,12; Lu 1:15

purer.

1Sa 16:12; Ps 51:7; 144:12; So 5:10; Da 1:15

their polishing.{Gizrathom,} rendered by Dr. Blayney, "their veining," from {gazar,} to divide, intersect, as the blue veins do the surface of the body. This is approved by Dr. A. Clarke, who remarks, "Milk will most certainly well apply to the whiteness of the skin; the beautiful ruby to the ruddiness of the flesh; and the sapphire, in its clear, transcendent purple, to the veins in a fine complexion."

visage.

5:10; Job 30:17-19,30; Joe 2:6; Na 2:10

blacker than a coal. Heb. darker than blackness.Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, "duskier than the dawn;" {shachar} signifying "the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished."

they.

1,2; Ru 1:19,20; Job 2:12; Isa 52:14

their skin.

Job 19:20; 33:21; Ps 32:4; 38:3; 102:3-5,11; 119:83

1 Corinthians 11:10-15

power.That is, a covering in sign that she is under the power of her husband. [Exousia ,] appears here to be used for the sign or token of being under power or authority, that is, a veil, as Theophylact, (Ecumenius, and Photius) explain; and so one MS. of the Vulgate, the Sixtine edition, and some copies of the Itala, have {velamen.}

Ge 20:16; 24:64,65

because.

Ec 5:6; Mt 18:10; Heb 1:14

7:10-14; 12:12-22; Ga 3:28

but.

8:6; Pr 16:4; Ro 11:36; Heb 1:2,3

10:15; Lu 12:57; Joh 7:24

if.

2Sa 14:26

it is.

14:35

covering. or, veil.