* a covering.
36:19 Nu 4:5 Ps 27:5 121:4,5 Isa 4:6 25:4
* rams' skins dyed red.
{Oroth ailim meoddamim,} literally, the skins of red rams.
It is a fact, attested by many respectable travellers, that
in the Levant, sheep are often met with having red or violet
coloured fleeces. Almost all ancient writers speak of the
same thing.
25:5 35:7,23 39:34 Nu 4:10 Eze 16:10
* badgers' skins.
{Oroth techashim,} which nearly all the ancient versions have
taken to be the name of a colour, though they differ very
much with regard to the particular colour intended: the LXX.,
Vulgate, and Coptic, have skins dyed of a violet colour; the
Syriac, azure; and the Arabic, black; and Bochart contends
for the hysginus, a very deep blue. It may, however, denote
an animal; for Dr. Geddes remarks, had the sacred writer
meant to express only a variety of colour, he would hardly
have repeated {┴oth,} skins, after {meoddamim,} red, in ch.
25:5.
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