Reference: Cheek
Easton
Smiting on the cheek was accounted a grievous injury and insult (Job 16:10; La 3:30; Mic 5:1). The admonition (Lu 6:29), "Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other," means simply, "Resist not evil" (Mt 5:39; 1Pe 2:19-23). Ps 3:7 = that God had deprived his enemies of the power of doing him injury.
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They gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together against me.
Arise, O Jehovah; save me, my God, for thou didst strike all mine enemies upon the cheek; thou didst break the teeth of the unjust.
He will give the cheek to him striking him: he will be filled with reproach.
Now thou shalt crowd thyself together, O daughter of a troop: besieging there against us; with a rod they will strike the judge of Israel upon the cheek.
But I say to you not to resist evil: but whosoever shall smite thee with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn to him also the other.
To him striking thee upon the cheek hold also near the other; and from him taking away thy garments, and thou shouldest not retrench thy coat.
Hastings
The seat of health and beauty (Song 1:10; 5:13). To be smitten on the cheek was the climax of insult and violence. That the command in Mt 5:39 is not to be interpreted literally is shown by Christ's own protest in Joh 18:23.
C. W. Emmet
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Thy cheeks were beautiful with with rows, thy neck with strings of pearls.
His cheeks as beds of spices, towers of aromatic herbs: his lips lilies, dropping overflowing myrrh.
But I say to you not to resist evil: but whosoever shall smite thee with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn to him also the other.
Jesus answered him, If I spake badly, testify of evil: and if well, why strikest thou me?