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Clementine Latin Vulgate
Judices 9:37
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Rursumque Gaal ait: Ecce populus de umbilico terr descendit, et unus cuneus venit per viam qu respicit quercum.
Rursumque Gaal ait: "Ecce populus de Umbilico terrae descendit, et unus cuneus venit per viam Quercus Augurum".
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
middle: Heb. navel
Meonenim: or, the regarders of the times, Deuteronomy 18:14
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 38:12 - midst
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Gaal spake again, and said,.... Looking towards the mountains, and taking another view of what he before saw, for further satisfaction:
see, there come people down by the middle of the land; either in the valley between the two mountains; or rather those he first saw on the top of the mountains were now come down about the middle of them, called in the Hebrew text the navel, from the prominence of the mountains thereabout, or because the navel is in the middle of the body, as this part of them was the middle on which he saw them. R. Isaiah interprets it, between the two cities:
and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim; of which we read nowhere else. Montanus renders it, "the oak of Meonenim"; or of the soothsayers; oaks being had in great esteem with idolaters for their oracles and divinations; and perhaps this was a place, whether an oak or, a plain, where such persons used to meet to make their divinations.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The plain of Meonenim - Translate “the oak of the soothsayers” (see the margin). Some well-known oak, so called, but which is not mentioned elsewhere.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 37. By the plain of Meonenim. — Some translate, by the way of the oaks, or oaken groves; others, by the way of the magicians, or regarders of the times, as in our margin. Probably it was a place in which augurs and soothsayers dwelt.
