Topic
Gravel
5 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Proverbs 20:17ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- 2 Kings 13:17ISBE
And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD’s deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
- Psalms 64:7ISBE
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
- Psalms 77:17ISBE
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
- Lamentations 3:16ISBE
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
grav'-el (chatsats, from root chatsats, "to divide." Kindred roots have the meaning of "to cut," "to hew," "to sharpen," hence chets, "arrow" (2Ki 13:17; Ps 64:7 and often); compare Arabic chacca, "to fall to the lot of," chiccah, "portion"): In Pr 20:17, we have:
"Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man;
But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel."
And in La 3:16:
"He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he
hath covered me with ashes."
The only other occurrence of the word is in Ps 77:17, where it is the equivalent of chets, "arrow" (see supra):
"The clouds poured out water;
The skies sent out a sound:
Thine arrows also went abroad."
Pr 20:17 and La 3:16 both suggest the frequent occurrence of grit in the coarse bread, the source of the grit being not necessarily the grindstone, but possibly even small stones originally mingled with the wheat and never properly separated from it.
Alfred Ely Day
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 1 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → FIGURATIVE Pr 20:17
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.