Broth
King James Dictionary [1]
BROTH, n. brauth.
1. Liquor in which flesh is boiled and macerated,usually with rice and herbs, or some ingredient to give it a better relish.
2. In America, the word is often applied to foaming water, and especially to a mixture of snow and water in the highways which is called snow-broth.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [2]
Isaiah 65:4 (b) This term is used to describe the evil mixture of lust and pleasure which Israel was enjoying in her rebellion against the Lord.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
broth ( מרק , mārāḳ ): Equivalent to our "soup." When Gideon ( Judges 6:19 ) made ready a kid, "the flesh he put in a basket," but, it is added, "he put the broth in a pot"; and he is told by the angel to "pour out the broth" ( Judges 6:20 ). Isaiah ( Isaiah 65:4 ) makes Yahweh speak of rebellious Israel as "a people that provoke me to my face continually sacrificing in gardens," and adds in description "that eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels" ( mārāḳ pārāḳ ). See Food .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
מָרָק, marak', soup, Judges 6:19-20; פָּרָק, parak', fragments of bread over which broth is poured, Isaiah 65:4. (See Eating).
