Genesis 19:11
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| Overview - Genesis 19 | |
| 1 | Lot entertains two angels. |
| 4 | The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness. |
| 12 | Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law. |
| 15 | He is directed to flee with his family to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar. |
| 24 | Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. |
| 26 | Lot's wife becomes a pillar of salt. |
| 29 | Lot dwells in a cave. |
| 31 | The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon. |
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Genesis 19:11 (King James Version)
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
- with blindness
- The word {sanverim,} rendered "blindness," and which occurs only here, and in 2 ; Ki 6:18 is supposed to denote dazzlings, deceptions, or confusions of sight from excessive light; being derived by Schultens, who is followed by Parkhurst, from the Arabic {sana,} to pour forth, diffuse, and nor, light
- Dr. Geddes, to the same purpose, thinks it is compounded of the Arabic {sana,} which signifies a flash, and or, light. The Targums, in both places where it occurs, render it by eruptions, or flashes of light, or as Mercer, in Robertson, explains the Chaldee word, irradiations.
- 2 Kings 6:18 ; Acts 13:11
- that they
- Ecclesiastes 10:15 ; Isaiah 57:10 ; Jeremiah 2:36