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Job 42:14

Job 42:14

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And he called the name of the first, Jemima. The name "Jemima" is probably derived from yom ( יוֹם), "day," and means "Fair as the day." And the name of the second, Kezia. "Kezia" (rather, "Keziah") was the Hebrew name of the spice which the Greeks and Romans called "cassia," a spice closely allied to cinnamon, and much esteemed in the East (see Herod; 3.

110). And the name of the third, Keren-happuch; literally, horn of stibium—stibium being the dye (antimony) with which Oriental women have from a remote antiquity been in the habit of anointing the upper and lower eyelids in order to give lustre to the eye.

The three names, according to Oriental notions, implied either sweetness or beauty.

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