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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Mark 1:6

and John was clothed with camel's-hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and was eating locusts and wild honey;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Camel;   John;   Leather;   Locust;   Scofield Reference Index - Inspiration;   Miracles;   Repentance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Honey;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elijah;   John the Baptist;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Camel;   Girdle;   Kings, the Books of;   Locust;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Camel's Hair;   Confession;   Honey;   Insects;   John;   Leather;   Locust;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Ordinances;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Camel;   Dress;   Food;   Honey;   Jesus Christ;   John the Baptist;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Animals;   Benedictus;   Camel, Camel's Hair;   Common Life;   Dress (2);   Food;   Honey;   John the Baptist;   Locust;   Locust ;   Sackcloth;   Wealth (2);   Winter ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Girdle;   Leather;   New Testament;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camel;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Locust;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Camel;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Camel's Hair;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - John, the Baptize;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Camel;   Camel's Hair;   Hair;   Honey;   Husks;   Locust;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Camel;   Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;   Pharisees;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
King James Version (1611)
And Iohn was clothed with camels haire, and with a girdle of a skin about his loines: and he did eat locusts and wilde honie,
King James Version
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
English Standard Version
Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
New American Standard Bible
John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.
New Century Version
John wore clothes made from camel's hair, had a leather belt around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey.
Amplified Bible
John wore clothing made of camel's hair and had a [wide] leather band around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.
Legacy Standard Bible
And John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and was eating locusts and wild honey.
Berean Standard Bible
John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Contemporary English Version
John wore clothes made of camel's hair. He had a leather strap around his waist and ate grasshoppers and wild honey.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yochanan wore clothes of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist; he ate locusts and wild honey.
Darby Translation
And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.
Easy-to-Read Version
John wore clothes made from camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe Iohn was clothed wt camels heare, and with a girdle of a skinne about his loynes: and he did eate Locusts and wilde hony,
George Lamsa Translation
John wore a dress of camel''s hair, with a girdle of leather fastened around his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Good News Translation
John wore clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Lexham English Bible
And John was dressed in camel's hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
Literal Translation
And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loin, and eating locusts and wild honey.
American Standard Version
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.
Bible in Basic English
And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
Hebrew Names Version
Yochanan was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.
International Standard Version
Now John was dressed in camel's hair withand
">[fn] a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.Leviticus 11:22; Matthew 3:4;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But Juchanon himself was clothed with a garment of the hair of camels, and engirded with a belt of leather upon his loins; and his food was locusts and wilderness honey.
Murdock Translation
And this John was clad in raiment of camels' hair; and was girded with a cincture of skin about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iohn was clothed with Camelles heere, and with a girdle of a skynne about his loynes: and he did eate locustes and wylde hony.
English Revised Version
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.
World English Bible
John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And John was clothed with camels hair, and with a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey,
Weymouth's New Testament
As for John, his garment was of camel's hair, and he wore a loincloth of leather; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Joon was clothid with heeris of camels, and a girdil of skyn was about hise leendis; and he ete hony soukis, and wilde hony, and prechide,
Update Bible Version
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and [had] a leather girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.
Webster's Bible Translation
And John was clothed with camels hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey;
New English Translation
John wore a garment made of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
New King James Version
Now John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
New Living Translation
His clothes were woven from coarse camel hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist. For food he ate locusts and wild honey.
New Life Bible
John wore clothes made of hair from camels. He had a leather belt around him. His food was locusts and wild honey.
New Revised Standard
Now John was clothed with camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And John was clothed camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.
Revised Standard Version
Now John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iohn was clothed with cammylles heer and with a gerdyll of a skyn a bout hys loynes. And he dyd eate locustes and wylde hony
Young's Literal Translation
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ihon was clothed with Camels heer, and with a lethron gerdell aboute his loynes, and ate locustes and wylde hony,
Mace New Testament (1729)
now John was clothed with camels hair, with a leathern girdle about his waist: and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Simplified Cowboy Version
John was a different sort of fellow. He wore a vest of camel hair with a stout leather belt holding his jeans up. He didn't waste no time with fancy vittles, but just ate locusts and wild honey.

Contextual Overview

1 Beginning of the glad-message of Jesus Christ. 2 According as it is written in Isaiah the prophet - Lo! I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way, - 3 A voice of one crying aloud - In the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight, be making his paths. 4 John the Immerser came, in the wilderness, proclaiming an immersion of repentance for remission of sins; 5 and there were going out unto him all the Judaea country and all they of Jerusalem, and were being immersed by him in the Jordan river, openly confessing their sins; 6 and John was clothed with camel's-hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and was eating locusts and wild honey; 7 and he proclaimed, saying - He that is mightier than I cometh after me, of whom I am not worthy to stoop and unloose the strap of his sandals: 8 I, have immersed you, with water, - He, will immerse you, with the Holy Spirit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

clothed: 2 Kings 1:8, Zechariah 13:4, Matthew 3:4

eat: Leviticus 11:22

Reciprocal: Luke 7:33 - came

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
and God called the light, day, but the darkness, called he, night. So it was evening - and it was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a means of dividing, between waters and waters,
Genesis 1:7
And God made the expanse, and it divided between the waters that were under the expanse and the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, heavens. So it was evening - and it was morning, a, second day.
Genesis 1:11
And God said - Let the land put-forth vegetation-herb yielding seed, fruit-tree, bearing fruit, after its kind, whose seed is within it on the land. And it was so,
Genesis 1:12
And the land brought-forth vegetation - herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, whose seed is within it, after its kind, And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13
So it was evening - and it was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said - Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night, - and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Genesis 1:20
And God said - Let the waters swarm with an abundance of living soul, and, birds, shall fly over the earth, over the face of the expanse of the heavens.
Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, - Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let, the birds, multiply in the land.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And John was clothed with camel's hair,.... This is a description of John by his clothes; :-, to which may be added, that it was usual for penitents, and men of austere lives, and of the first class for holiness and religion, to live in deserts, to fare hard, and wear coarse apparel. Mention is made of one man, who is called, נתן דצוציתא f, because he had on a garment of goat's hair, which cut his flesh, that so it might atone for him, for he was a penitent:

and with a girdle or skin about his loins; a leathern one, as in Matthew 3:4, not a golden one, such as the high priest wore, though the g Jews call John an high priest: he was indeed of the priestly race: his father was a priest, but he did not wear a priestly girdle, nor any of the priest's garments;

and he ate locusts and wild honey. The Ethiopic version renders it, "honey of earth bees": in Ethiopia was a sort of bees, little bigger than flies, and without a sting, which had their hives in the earth, where they produced honey of a white colour, very pleasant and wholesome; and this is thought, by the Ethiopians, to be the honey which John ate h; but then there must have been the same in Judea, which does not appear. Moreover, in the land of Judea, there was תמרים

דבש של, "the honey of palm trees"; and it is said i, that it is the best honey; and therefore the Scripture calls, honey of the palm trees, honey; and the palm trees which grow in the plains and valleys, abound most with it; wherefore there was much of this about Jericho, the city of palm trees: there was also דבש של תאינים, "honey of figs"; which in some places was in great plenty:

"R. Jacob ben Dosthai says k, it is three miles from Lud to Ono (see Ezra 2:33) one time I walked before break of day, and I went up to my ankles in honey of figs.''

Dr. Lightfoot thinks, this was the honey the evangelist speaks of, and John ate of. I have observed on Matthew 3:4 that with the Jews, the honey of bees was lawful to eat l though the bees themselves were not. So Jonathan ben Uzziel paraphrases, Leviticus 11:20,

"Let the species of bees be an abomination to you, but the honey of bees may be eaten;''

they being reckoned among reptiles that fly: and it may be further observed, that according to them, the honey of wasps and hornets was lawful to be eaten, as well as the honey of bees m and this may be truly called, as here, wild honey; for which they give these reasons n, because it is not of the substance of their bodies, but they gather it from herbs; and because in the same manner as bees, they take it into their bodies, but do not produce it from them; though some of the doctors dissent, and think it not lawful o.

f T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 56. 2. Vid. Buxtorf. not. in Sepher Cosri, p. 156, 157. g Gauz. Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 25. 2. h Ludolph. Lex. Ethiop. p. 447. i Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Biccurim, c. 1. sect. 10. k T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 111. 2. l Vid. Piske Tosephot Becorot, art. 13. m Misn. Macshirin, c. 6. sect. 4. T. Bab. Becorot, fol. 7. 2. n Maimon. Hilch. Maacalot Asurot, c. 3. sect. 3. Ib. & Bartenora in Misn. Macshirin, ibid. o In Piske Tosephot Becorot, art. 13. Maggid Misna in Maimon. Hilch. Maacolot ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 3:3, Matthew 3:5-6, Matthew 3:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Mark 1:6. John was clothed, &c.] Matthew 3:4; Matthew 3:4.


 
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