Gen 19:11, 2Ki 6:18-20, Luk 4:30, 24:31, Joh 5:13, 10:39-40, 11:54 | TSK | STEP | with blindness.The word {sanverim,} rendered "blindness," and which occurs only here, and in 2 Ki 6:18, is supposed to denote dazzlings, deceptions, or confusions of sight from excessive light; being derived by Schultens, who is followed by Parkhurst, from the Arabic {sana,} to pour forth, diffuse, and nor, light. Dr. Geddes, to the same purpose, thinks it is compounded of the Arabic {sana,} which signifies a flash, and or, light. The Targums, in both places where it occurs, render it by eruptions, or flashes of light, or as Mercer, in Robertson, explains the Chaldee word, irradiations. that they.

Genesis 19:11

with blindness.The word {sanverim,} rendered "blindness," and which occurs only here, and in 2 Ki 6:18, is supposed to denote dazzlings, deceptions, or confusions of sight from excessive light; being derived by Schultens, who is followed by Parkhurst, from the Arabic {sana,} to pour forth, diffuse, and nor, light. Dr. Geddes, to the same purpose, thinks it is compounded of the Arabic {sana,} which signifies a flash, and or, light. The Targums, in both places where it occurs, render it by eruptions, or flashes of light, or as Mercer, in Robertson, explains the Chaldee word, irradiations.

2Ki 6:18; Ac 13:11

that they.

Ec 10:15; Isa 57:10; Jer 2:36

2 Kings 6:18-20

Smite this people.Confound their sight, so that they may not know what they see; and so mistake one place for another. The word {sanverim,} rendered blindness, occurs only here and in Ge 19:11, on which see the Note.

De 28:28; Job 5:14; Zec 12:4; Joh 9:39; 12:40; Ac 13:11; Ro 11:7

follow me. Heb. come ye after me.

Mt 16:24; Mr 8:34; Lu 9:23

I will bring.

2Sa 16:18,19; Lu 24:16

open the eyes.

17; Lu 24:31

opened.

Jud 20:40-42; Lu 16:23

Luke 4:30

Joh 8:59; 10:39; 18:6,7; Ac 12:18

Luke 24:31

their eyes.

16; Joh 20:13-16

vanished out of their sight. or, ceased to be seen of them.

4:30; Joh 8:59

John 5:13

he that.

14:9

had.

8:59; Lu 4:30; 24:31

a multitude being. or, from the multitude that was.

John 10:39-40

31; 7:30,44; 8:59; Lu 4:29,30

the place.

1:28; 3:26

there.

7:1; 11:54

John 11:54

walked.

4:1-3; 7:1; 10:40; 18:20

went.

7:4,10,13

Ephraim.Ephraim appears to be the same city which is called Ephrain, 2 Ch 13:19 (where see the Note), and Ephron, Jos 15:9, which was situated eight miles north of Jerusalem, near Bethel, and apparently between that city and Jericho. Accordingly we find that a desert, or wilderness, extended from Jericho to Bethel (Jos 16:1), called the wilderness of Bethaven (Jos 18:12), in which Joshua and the Israelites slew the inhabitants of Ai. (Jos 8:24.)

2Sa 13:23; 2Ch 13:19