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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 31:39 - 31:39
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measuring-line - (Eze 40:8; Zec 2:1).
Gareb - from a Hebrew root, “to scrape”; Syriac, “leprosy”; the locality outside of the city, to which lepers were removed.
Goath - from a root, “to toil,” referring to the toilsome ascent there: outside of the city of David, towards the southwest, as Gareb was northwest [Junius].