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Numbers 30:1 open_in_new
heads. rulers or princes.
children. sons.
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Numbers 30:2 open_in_new
vow. vow. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6). make. solemn promise.
soul. Hebrew. nephesh (App-13), used in this chapter twelve times for the whole (responsible) person.
break. Hebrew profane.
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Numbers 30:3 open_in_new
and. or.
bind... a bond. Figure of speech Polyptoton. make. solemn bond.
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Numbers 30:4 open_in_new
shall stand. abideth firm. Compare Genesis 23:17; Genesis 23:20; Psalms 19:7; Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 40:8; Jeremiah 44:29.
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Numbers 30:7 open_in_new
her. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "all her", as in Numbers 30:4.
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Numbers 30:9 open_in_new
divorced. Hebrew "put away [from her husband]". Compare Leviticus 21:7.
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Numbers 30:12 open_in_new
hath utterly made them void. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6). Hebrew "a making void he hath made them void". Figure of speech well represented by the word "utterly". See note on Genesis 26:28.
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Numbers 30:14 open_in_new
altogether, &c. Hebrew "a holding his peace, he held his peace". Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), well translated by "altogether".
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Numbers 30:15 open_in_new
iniquity. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the punishment occasioned by it. Hebrew. 'avah. App-44.