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SHOCK, STACK.—In Jdg_15:5 the former, and in Exo_22:5 the latter, is in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] the rendering of the same word—RV [Note: Revised Version.] uniformly ‘shocks,’—which in both places is opposed to the ‘standing corn’ or ‘standing grain’ (so Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] for ‘corn’ throughout). The former, at least, is misleading, since the Hebrews did not set up their sheaves in shocks (Scoticé ‘stooks’), but piled them in heaps for conveyance to the threshing-floor (Agriculture, § 3). So in the beautiful figure, Job_5:25, render ‘like as a heap of corn cometh up (to the threshing-floor) in its season.’
A. R. S. Kennedy.