Hebrew Word Studies (6 words)
17;Genesis 9:9,12 + often Following a participle as its subject (to express mostly either a true present or the futurum instans [immanent future])Genesis 18:17הַמְכַסֶּה אֲנִיAmos I hidingfrom Abraham 17;Genesis 9:9,12 + often Following a participle as its subject (to express mostly either a true present or the futurum instans [immanent future])Genesis 18:17הַמְכַסֶּה אֲנִיAmos I hidingfrom Abraham
- ships (semantic_range)
- fleet (semantic_range)
9moth(aswaster, consumer); —׳עabsolute,Hosea 5:12(""רָקָכ),Isaiah 50:9;Isaiah 51:8; in similePsalm 39:12;כְּבֶגֶד אֲכָלוֺ עָשׁJob 13:28; symbol of fragilityJob 4:19. —Job 27:10read probablyעַכָּבִישׁq 9moth(aswaster, consumer); —׳עabsolute,Hosea 5:12(""רָקָכ),Isaiah 50:9;Isaiah 51:8; in similePsalm 39:12;כְּבֶגֶד אֲכָלוֺ עָשׁJob 13:28; symbol of fragilityJob 4:19. —Job 27:10read probablyעַכָּבִישׁq
52 connected withהִפְרָה, Hiph`il ofפרה, compareפראHiph`ilHosea 13:15).12nd son of JosephGenesis 41:52;Genesis 46:20; reckoned among sons of Jacob, blessed by him, and given preference over ManassehGe 52 connected withהִפְרָה, Hiph`il ofפרה, compareפראHiph`ilHosea 13:15).12nd son of JosephGenesis 41:52;Genesis 46:20; reckoned among sons of Jacob, blessed by him, and given preference over ManassehGe
- Ephraim (semantic_range)
12(""עָשׁ), compareJob 13:28(""id.); elsewhere of decay of bones,caries(in figurative),׳בְּעַצְמ׳רHabakkuk 3:16;Proverbs 12:4, construct׳רְקֵב עַצְמProverbs 14:30.Topical LexiconOverviewThe Hebrew nou 12(""עָשׁ), compareJob 13:28(""id.); elsewhere of decay of bones,caries(in figurative),׳בְּעַצְמ׳רHabakkuk 3:16;Proverbs 12:4, construct׳רְקֵב עַצְמProverbs 14:30.Topical LexiconOverviewThe Hebrew nou
- rottenness (semantic_range)
12house(Phoenicianבת, MIבת, suffixביתה, Arabic, Aramaicבַּיְתָא,Assyrianbîtu, COTGloss, Sabeanבית,בת,fortressDHMZMG 1883, 387;templeHal257DHMZMG 1876, 697, EthiopicPalmyrene inבת עלמא,בת מקברתאsepulch 12house(Phoenicianבת, MIבת, suffixביתה, Arabic, Aramaicבַּיְתָא,Assyrianbîtu, COTGloss, Sabeanבית,בת,fortressDHMZMG 1883, 387;templeHal257DHMZMG 1876, 697, EthiopicPalmyrene inבת עלמא,בת מקברתאsepulch
- lodge (semantic_range)
- pass the night (semantic_range)
35;Genesis 49:8(q. v. below) as if derived from Hoph`al ofידה=praised, object of praise(onהcompare Hiph`ilאֲהוֺדֶ֑נּוּPsalm 28:7,יְהוֺדֶהNehemiah 11:17), but this dubious; relation toיְהֻד, II.יְהוּדִ 35;Genesis 49:8(q. v. below) as if derived from Hoph`al ofידה=praised, object of praise(onהcompare Hiph`ilאֲהוֺדֶ֑נּוּPsalm 28:7,יְהוֺדֶהNehemiah 11:17), but this dubious; relation toיְהֻד, II.יְהוּדִ
- Judah (semantic_range)
- son of Jacob and Leah (semantic_range)
- tribe (semantic_range)
- nation (semantic_range)
- land of Judah (semantic_range)
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth,.... Which eats garments, penetrates into them, feeds on them privately, secretly, without any noise, and gradually and slowly consumes them; but
at last utterly, that they are of no use and profit: this may signify the various things which befell the ten tribes in the reigns of Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah, which secretly and gradually weakened them; and the utter consumption of them in the times of Hoshea by Shalmaneser: and to the house of Judah as rottenness; as rottenness in the bones, Pro 12:4 ; which can never be got out or cured; or as a worm that eats into wood, as Jarchi interprets it; and gets into the very heart of a tree, and eats it out: thus the Lord threatens the house of Judah, or the two tribes, with a gradual, yet thorough, ruin and destruction.