Teks -- Judges 9:37 (NET)

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center of the land. A unit is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.”

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Clarke: Jdg 9:37 - By the plain of Meonenim

By the plain of Meonenim - Some translate, by the way of the oaks, or oaken groves; others, by the way of the magicians, or regarders of the times, as in our margin. Probably it was a place in which augurs and soothsayers dwelt.

TSK: Jdg 9:37 - middle // Meonenim

middle : Heb. navel

Meonenim : or, the regarders of the times, Deu 18:14

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Poole: Jdg 9:37 - By the middle of the land

By the middle of the land Heb. by the navel of the land . So he calls either, first, The middle of it, as the middle part of Greece and of Sicily are called the navel of them by the Roman writers, because the navel is in the midst of man’ s body; or, secondly, The higher part of it, called the mountains , Jud 9:36 , and here the navel , because it was raised above the other ground, as the navel is above the rest of the body.

Haydock: Jdg 9:37 - Midst // Oak

Midst. Hebrew Tabur, here signifies "a little hill, or the navel," which title is given to places which are elevated and in the centre of the country, Ezechiel xxxviii. 12. (Josephus, Jewish Wars iii. 2.) Varro mentions the lake of Cutilia, as the navel of Italy. The wood of Enna and Etolia are styled the navel of Sicily and of Greece, by Cicero and Livy. (Bonfrere; Calmet) ---

Oak, which is probably mentioned, ver. 6. (Menochius) ---

Hebrew, "another company comes by the oak or plain of Mehonenim," which may signify, "of the augurs." Septuagint, "of those who make observations," apobleponton. (Calmet)

Gill: Jdg 9:37 - And Gaal spake again, and said // see, there come people down by the middle of the land // and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim

And Gaal spake again, and said,.... Looking towards the mountains, and taking another view of what he before saw, for further satisfaction:

see, there come people down by the middle of the land; either in the valley between the two mountains; or rather those he first saw on the top of the mountains were now come down about the middle of them, called in the Hebrew text the navel, from the prominence of the mountains thereabout, or because the navel is in the middle of the body, as this part of them was the middle on which he saw them. R. Isaiah interprets it, between the two cities:

and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim; of which we read nowhere else. Montanus renders it, "the oak of Meonenim"; or of the soothsayers; oaks being had in great esteem with idolaters for their oracles and divinations; and perhaps this was a place, whether an oak or, a plain, where such persons used to meet to make their divinations.