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Lapidoth, Lappidoth
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lap'-i-doth (enlightened; lamps, flames, torches)
RELATED: Barak, Deborah |
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
torches. Deborah is called "the wife of Lapidoth" ( Judges
4:4 ). Some have rendered the expression "a woman of a fiery spirit," under the
supposition that Lapidoth is not a proper name, a woman of a torch-like spirit.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
enlightened; lamps
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(torches), The inhabitants of Laodicea. ( Colossians
4:16 ; Revelation 3:14 )
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
lap'-i-doth, -doth (lappidhoth, "flames," "torches";
the King James Version, Lapidoth):
Deborah's husband (Judges 4:4). The Hebrew name is a feminine plural like Jeremoth
(1 Chronicles 7:8), Naboth (1 Kings 21:1). The plural is probably intensive. Jewish
interpreters have identified Lappidoth ("flames") with Barak ("lightning"). Some
have taken the words rendered "wife of Lappidoth" ('esheth lappidhoth) as a description
of Deborah, and have translated them, "woman of lights," i.e. maker of wicks for
the sanctuary; or "woman of flames," referring to her prophetic zeal. These explanations
are more interesting than probable.
John A. Lees
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