Reference: Hedge
Fausets
geder and mesukah. It was customary to surround vineyards with a wall of loose stones or mud, often crowned with thorns to keep off wild beasts; so Israel fenced by God (Ps 80:12; Mt 21:33). The haunt of serpents (Ec 10:8; "whoso breaketh an hedge a serpent shall bite him," i.e., maliciously pulling down his neighbour's hedge wall he brings on himself his own punishment; De 19:14; Am 5:19), and of locusts in cold weather (Na 3:17), "which camp in the hedges in the cold day (the cold taking away their power of flight), but when the sun ariseth ... fleeaway;" so the Assyrian hosts shall suddenly disappear, not leaving a trace behind.
Maundrell describes the walls round the gardens of Damascus, they are built of great pieces of earth hardened in the sun, placed on one another in two rows, making a cheap, expeditious, and in that dry country a durable wall. Isaiah (Isa 5:5) distinguishes the "hedge" (mesukah) and the "wall" (geder); the prickly tangled "hedge" being an additional fence (Mic 7:4). Pr 15:19, "the way of the slothful is as an hedge of thorns"; it seems to lain as if a hedge of thorns were in his way (Pr 20:4; 22:13; 26:13), whereas all is clear to the willing. The narrow path between the hedges of vineyards is distinct from the "highways" (Lu 14:23; Nu 22:24).
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Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.
"You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!"
The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!"
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.
The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold-- when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.
"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
Hastings
(1) mes
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You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
Smith
Hedge.
The Hebrew words thus rendered denote simply that which surrounds or encloses, whether it be a stone wall, geder,
or a fence of other materials. The stone walls which surround the sheepfolds of modern Palestine are frequently crowned with sharp thorns.
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and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers