Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 51:20

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20. head of all . . . streets — ( Lamentations 2:19 ; Lamentations 4:1 ). wild bull —rather, "oryx" [JEROME], or gazelle [GESENIUS], or wild goat [BOCHART]; commonly in the East taken in a net, of a wide sweep, into which the beasts were hunted together. The streets of cities in the East often have gates, which are closed at night; a person wishing to escape would be stopped by them and caught, as a wild animal in a net. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-21" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-isa-51-006

절 (explains)

bible-text/isa-51-20

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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