James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Calves Of The Lips

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Calves Of The Lips


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CALVES OF THE LIPS.—Hos_14:2 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘so will we render the calves of our lips’; RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘… [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips’), an obscure passage. A very slight change of the MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] yields the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] and Syr. rendering ‘the fruit of our lips.’