Topic
Hedge
18 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Proverbs 15:19ISBE · Nave Of thorns
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
- Isaiah 5:5ISBE · Nave A fence
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
- Micah 7:4ISBE · Nave A fence
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
- Mark 12:1ISBE · Nave A fence
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
- Luke 14:23ISBE · Nave People lived in
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
- 1 Chronicles 4:23ISBE
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
- Job 1:10Nave A fence
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
- Psalms 89:40ISBE
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
- Proverbs 24:31Smith
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
- Isaiah 7:19ISBE
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
- Jeremiah 49:3Nave A fence
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
- Lamentations 3:7Nave A fence
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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- Ezekiel 13:5 Nave A fence
- Ezekiel 22:30 Nave A fence
- Ezekiel 42:10 Smith
- Hosea 2:6 Nave A fence
- Matthew 21:33 ISBE
- Ephesians 2:14 ISBE
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 2 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 10 references
hej:
(1) mecukhah, "a thorn hedge," only in Mic 7:4.; mesukkah, "a hedge" (Isa 5:5); mesukhath chadheq, "a hedge of thorns" (Pr 15:19).
(2) gadher, and geherah, translated "hedges" in the Revised Version (British and American) only in Ps 89:40, elsewhere "fence." GEDERAH (which see) in the Revised Version margin is translated "hedges" (1Ch 4:23).
(3) na`atsuts, "thorn-hedges" (Isa 7:19).
(4) phragmos, translated "hedge" (Mt 21:33; Mr 12:1; Lu 14:23); "partition" in Eph 2:14, which is its literal meaning. In the Septuagint it is the usual equivalent of the above Hebrew words.
Loose stone walls without mortar are the usual "fences" around fields in Palestine, and this is what gadher and gedherah signify in most passages. Hedges made of cut thorn branches or thorny bushes are very common in the plains and particularly in the Jordan valley.
E. W. G. Masterman
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); 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.