Stack Shock

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Stack Shock [1]

Shock, Stack . In   Judges 15:5 the former, and in   Exodus 22:5 the latter, is in Av [Note: Authorized Version.] the rendering of the same word Rv [Note: Revised Version.] uniformly ‘shocks,’ which in both places is opposed to the ‘standing corn’ or ‘standing grain’ (so Amer. Rv [Note: Revised Version.] for ‘corn’ throughout). The former, at least, is misleading, since the Hebrews did not set up their sheaves in shocks ( Scoticé ‘stooks’), but piled them in heaps for conveyance to the threshing-floor (Agriculture, § 3 ). So in the beautiful figure,   Job 5:25 , render ‘like as a heap of corn cometh up (to the threshing-floor) in its season.’

A. R. S. Kennedy.

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