• 1. עדלם ‛ ǎdûllâm, Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה chı̂yrâh, Chirah, “nobility?”

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Zarah. —Hebrew, the rising, especially of the sun. There is in the name an allusion to the red streak placed (upon the ch…

And afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet
thread upon his hand
By which…

This chapter gives an account of Judah and his family, and it is such an account that it seems a wonder that of all Jacob's sons, our Lord would sp…