Gen 37:25-28, 42:21-22, 49:22, Est 3:15, Rom 12:15, 1Cor 12:26 | TSK | STEP | they sat. Ishmeelites. Gilead. spicery.{Nechoth,} is rendered by the LXX. "incense;" Syriac, "resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;" Acquila, "storax;" which is followed by Bochart. This drug is abundant in Syria, and here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly pleasant fragrance. balm{Tzeri,} which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the ancients have generally interpreted it resin. myrrh.{Lot,} is probably, as Junius, De Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus contend, the same as the Arabic {ladan}, Greek [ladanon,] and Latin {ladanum}.

Genesis 37:25-28

they sat.

Ishmeelites.

28,36; 16:11,12; 25:1-4,16-18; 31:23; Ps 83:6

Gilead.

spicery.{Nechoth,} is rendered by the LXX. "incense;" Syriac, "resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;" Acquila, "storax;" which is followed by Bochart. This drug is abundant in Syria, and here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly pleasant fragrance.

balm{Tzeri,} which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the ancients have generally interpreted it resin.

myrrh.{Lot,} is probably, as Junius, De Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus contend, the same as the Arabic {ladan}, Greek [ladanon,] and Latin {ladanum}.

What profit.

25:32; Ps 30:9; Jer 41:8; Mt 16:26; Ro 6:21

conceal.

20; 4:10; De 17:8; 2Sa 1:16; Job 16:18; Eze 24:7

sell him.

22; Ex 21:16,21; Ne 5:8; Mt 16:26; 26:15; 1Ti 1:10; Re 18:13

let not.

1Sa 18:17; 2Sa 11:14-17; 12:9

he is our.

29:14; 42:21

were content. Heb. hearkened.