Golden City
Morrish Bible Dictionary [1]
"The golden city ceased," Isaiah 14:4 is better translated, as in the margin, "the exactress of gold ceased!" Babylon, which had heaped up gold by its conquests, was overcome.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
( מִדְהֵבָה Madhebah'; Sept. ( Ἐπισπουδαστής ,Vulg. Tributum ), a term applied as an epithet of Babylon ( Isaiah 14:4), and occurring nowhere else. Some derive it from the Aramoean דְּהִב , Gold, as a verb-form (in the Hip. part. fem.) = gold-making, i.e., exactress of gold, a not inapt emblem of the impe rial mart (parallel hemistich נֹגֵשׁ , Grinding); or else a heap or Treasury of gold ( מ pref. formative of place). So Gesenius prefers with hesitation (Thes. Heb. page 322 b), after Kimchi, Aben-Ezra, etc. Others (so F Ü rst, Heb. Lex. s.v.), following the Targums, Sept., Aquilla, Syriac, asnd Arab. of Sadias, prefer to read מִרְהֵבָה , in the sense of Oppression, from רָהִב rahab', to scare (compare Isaiah 3:5, where רהב occurs in parallelism with נגשׁ (See Babylon).
