Difference between revisions of "Bosses"
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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34624" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34624" /> == | ||
<p> The projecting center of a shield. Job 15:26; "he (the rebel) runneth upon Him (God), even on (rather with) his neck (i.e. the rebel's haughtily uplifted neck, Psalms 75:5); upon (rather with) the thick bosses of his (the rebel's, not God's) bucklers." The rebel and his fellows, as it were, join shield to shield as a compact covering against the Almighty's darts. What suicidal folly! for "the shields of the earth belong unto God" (Psalms 47:9). The invading godless [[Gog]] and Magog's shields [[Israel]] shall "set on fire" (Ezekiel 39:9). </p> | <p> The projecting center of a shield. Job 15:26; "he (the rebel) runneth upon Him (God), even on (rather with) his neck (i.e. the rebel's haughtily uplifted neck, Psalms 75:5); upon (rather with) the thick bosses of his (the rebel's, not God's) bucklers." The rebel and his fellows, as it were, join shield to shield as a compact covering against the Almighty's darts. What suicidal folly! for "the shields of the earth belong unto God" ( Psalms 47:9). The invading godless [[Gog]] and Magog's shields [[Israel]] shall "set on fire" ( Ezekiel 39:9). </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15647" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15647" /> == | ||
<p> The thickest and strongest parts, the projecting points, of a shield. Job 15:26 . </p> | <p> The thickest and strongest parts, the projecting points, of a shield. Job 15:26 . </p> | ||
== Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_80315" /> == | == Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_80315" /> == | ||
<p> the thickest and strongest parts of a buckler, Job 15:20 . </p> | <p> the thickest and strongest parts of a buckler, Job 15:20 . </p> | ||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30655" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30655" /> == | ||
Job 15:26 | Job 15:26 | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_94833" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_94833" /> == | ||
Revision as of 15:55, 12 October 2021
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
The projecting center of a shield. Job 15:26; "he (the rebel) runneth upon Him (God), even on (rather with) his neck (i.e. the rebel's haughtily uplifted neck, Psalms 75:5); upon (rather with) the thick bosses of his (the rebel's, not God's) bucklers." The rebel and his fellows, as it were, join shield to shield as a compact covering against the Almighty's darts. What suicidal folly! for "the shields of the earth belong unto God" ( Psalms 47:9). The invading godless Gog and Magog's shields Israel shall "set on fire" ( Ezekiel 39:9).
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [2]
The thickest and strongest parts, the projecting points, of a shield. Job 15:26 .
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary [3]
the thickest and strongest parts of a buckler, Job 15:20 .
Easton's Bible Dictionary [4]
Job 15:26
Webster's Dictionary [5]
(pl.) of Boss
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [6]
Bosses, the thickest and strongest parts, the prominent points of a buckler [ARMS, ARMOR].
