5 occurrences in 5 dictionaries

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

(Jer 5:27), rather "a trap" with decoy birds in it. In Re 18:2 a prison, guardhouse. (See BIRD.)

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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

Jer 5:27

is more properly a trap in which decoy birds were placed. In

Re 18:2

the (Greek term means a prison.

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