- swarms:
- or, a mixture of noisome beasts, etc. The word arov is rendered κυνομυια, kunomuia, the dog-fly, by the LXX (who are followed by the learned Bochart), which must have been particularly hateful to the Egyptians, because they held dogs in the highest veneration, under which form they worshipped Anubis. "He sentª° divers sorts of fliesª among them, which devouredª° them; and frogs,ª which destroyedª° them." {Psa 78:45} + "He spake,ª° and there cameª° divers sorts of flies,ª [and] liceª in all¹ their coasts.ª" {Psa 105:31} + "And it shall come to pass¹ in that¹ day,ª [that] the LORDª shall hissª° for the flyª that¹ [is] in the uttermost partª of the riversª of Egypt,ª and for the beeª that¹ [is] in the landª of Assyria.ª" {Isa 7:18}
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