Gen 38:16-18, Deu 23:17-18, Hos 2:12, Joe 3:3, Mic 1:7, Luk 15:30 | TSK | STEP

Genesis 38:16-18

Go to.

2Sa 13:11

What wilt.

De 23:18; Eze 16:33; Mt 26:15; 1Ti 6:10

I will.

Eze 16:33

a kid. Heb. a kid of the goats. Wilt thou.

20,24,25; Pr 20:16; Lu 16:8

Thy signet.{Chothem,} or {chothemeth,} as in ver. 25, is properly a ring-seal, with which impressions were made to ascertain property, etc. From Jer 22:24, we find that it was worn on the hand; though it might also have been suspended from the neck by a ribband, as the Arabs still wear it.

25,26; Jer 22:24; Lu 15:22

bracelets.{Pathil,} from {pathal,} to twist, wreathe, may denote either a wreath for the arm or neck, a twisted collar, or bracelet. In the former sense the LXX. render it by [ormiskon,] and Aquila and Symmachus by [strepton;] and in the latter sense, the Vulgate renders it by {armillam.} It may have been a collar by which the signet was suspended; though its being used in the plural seems to favour the opinion of its being a bracelet.

gave it her.

25,26; Ho 4:11

Deuteronomy 23:17-18

There shall be, etc.The prohibition in the text, like many others, has no direct application to practices that were common among the Israelites at that time; but was intended to guard them against the enormities which were practised among the surrounding nations.

22:21,29; Le 19:29; Pr 2:16

whore. or, sodomitess.

Ro 1:26

sodomite.

Ge 19:4,5; Jud 19:22; 1Ki 14:24; 15:12; 22:46; 2Ki 23:7; Ro 1:27,28

1Co 6:9; 1Ti 1:10

hire.

Eze 16:33

dog.

Ps 22:16; Pr 26:11; Isa 56:10,11; Mt 7:6; Php 3:2; 2Pe 2:22

Re 22:15

any vow.