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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But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Hastings
(1) mes
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Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them 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, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.