Reference: Cage
Easton
(Heb. kelub', Jer 5:27, marg. "coop;" rendered "basket" in Am 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after being caught. In Re 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek phulake, properly a prison or place of confinement.
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Fausets
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Hastings
Birds were taken to market in a cage or coop of wicker work (Jer 5:27); a similar cage might hold a decoy-bird in fowling (Sir 11:30). One of Ashurbanipal's hunting scenes shows a cage of strong wooden bars from which a lion is being let loose (cf. Eze 19:8 RV). In Re 18:2 render, with RV, 'hold' or 'prison' for AV 'cage.'
A. R. S. Kennedy.
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Morish
It is said symbolically that as a cage or trap is full of birds, so the houses of the Jews were full of deceit. Jer 5:27. 'A cage of every unclean and hateful bird,' is a character of mystical Babylon. Re 18:2. The word here is ??????, often translated 'prison.'
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Smith
Cage.
The term so rendered in
is more properly a trap in which decoy birds were placed. In
the (Greek term means a prison.