* cast lots.
Nu 26:55 33:54 Jos 18:10,11 1Sa 14:41,42 Pr 16:33 Eze 48:29
Jon 1:7 Ac 1:23-26
* scape goat. Heb. Azazel, that is, the goat-gone-away.
The Hebrew [ ] has been supposed by some to be the
name of a place, either a mountain or cliff, to which the goat
was led. But no place of that name has ever been pointed out,
except a mountain near Sinai, which was too distant for the
goat to be conducted there from Jerusalem. Other learned men
think it was the name of the devil, who was worshipped by the
heathen in the form of a goat. But Bp. Patrick justly objects
to this opinion; for it is difficult to conceive, that when
the other goat was offered to God, this should be sent among
demons. The more probable opinion seems to be, that it was
name given to the goat itself, on account of his being let go;
from {aiz,} a goat, and {azal,} to depart. So LXX.
[[FNgreek]apopompaov[Fn],] and Vulgate {emissarius,} sent away; Aquila
and Symmachus [[FNgreek]tragov apercomenov[Fn],] or [[FNgreek]apolelumenov[Fn]:]
the goat going away, or dismissed.
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