International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Daub

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Daub


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dôb: “To daub” always has the meaning “to cover,” “to smear with” in the Scriptures. Ezekiel compares the flatteries of the false prophec to a slight wall covered with whitewash (literally, “spittle”). See ; . in “daubed it with slime and with pitch” (Hebrew ותּחמרה, wattaḥmerāh, denominative of המר, ḥēmār, “bitumen” or “asphalt”), “to daub” has the same meaning as in the Ezekiel passage.