Habakkuk 1:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

angle. hook.

drag. a fish-net. Occurs only here (verses: Habakkuk 1:15; Habakkuk 1:16) and in Isaiah 19:8. Greek. sagene. See App-122. Italian seine sagena, whence (with. different vowel) the Greek verb sageneuo = to sweep [a country] clear.

Habakkuk 1:15

15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag:f therefore they rejoice and are glad.