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BESOM (lit. ‘sweeper’) occurs only fig. Isa_14:23, ‘I will sweep it [Babylon] with the sweeper of destruction.’ One such besom of twigs the writer remembers having seen in the museum of Egyptian antiquities in Cairo.
A. R. S. Kennedy.