Topic
Cottage
4 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 27:18Easton
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
- Isaiah 1:8Easton
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
- Isaiah 24:20Easton
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
- Zephaniah 2:6Easton
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 5 references
(1.) A booth in a vineyard (Isa. 1:8); a temporary shed covered with leaves or straw to shelter the watchman that kept the garden. These were slight fabrics, and were removed when no longer needed, or were left to be blown down in winter (Job 27:18).
(2.) A lodging-place (rendered “lodge” in Isa. 1:8); a slighter structure than the “booth,” as the cucumber patch is more temporary than a vineyard (Isa. 24:20). It denotes a frail structure of boughs supported on a few poles, which is still in use in the East, or a hammock suspended between trees, in which the watchman was accustomed to sleep during summer.
(3.) In Zeph. 2:6 it is the rendering of the Hebrew keroth, which some suppose to denote rather “pits” (R.V. marg., “caves”) or “wells of water,” such as shepherds would sink.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
kot'-aj.
See HOUSE.
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.