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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 13-18
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the Peacocks?
That the Hebrew word here used, signifies a Peacock, is clear in all those Lexicographers that I have met with. Another word is used (1 Kings 10.22.) which yet Buxtorfius saith is by some rendered Parrots, and they are often brought in ships from far Countries. This I desire the Reader to take notice of, that there is a wonderful variety and difference of opinion among Interpreters, about the proper names of Animals, Plants and Gems; and therefore no wonder if some render the word Chasidah in the following part of this verse, which is usually taken for a Stork, the Ostrich; and others, the word Renanim at the beginning of it, Ostriches, which we and almost all others, render Peacocks.
That the Hebrew word here used, signifies a Peacock, is clear in all those Lexicographers that I have met with. Another word is used (1 Kings 10.22.) which yet Buxtorfius saith is by some rendred Parrats, and they are often brought in ships from far Countries. This I desire the Reader to take notice of, that there is a wonderful variety and difference of opinion among Interpreters, about the proper names of Animals, Plants and Gemms; and therefore no wonder if some render the word Chasidah in the following part of this verse, which is usually taken for a Storke, the Ostrich; and others, the word Renanim at the beginning of it, Ostriches, which we and almost all others, render Peacocks.
The Peacock is described only by his wings in the former part of the 13th verse, Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the Peacock.