Gen 38:16-18, Ezr 9:1-2 | 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