[534] LXX. kindled, בָּעְרַוּ. So Vollers, Z.A.T.W., III. 250.
[535] Lit. lurking.
[536] Massoretic Text with different vowels reads their baker. LXX. Εφραιμ!
[537] See below, Chap. [XXII].
[539] Numb. xxiii. 9 b; Josh. ii. 8.
[540] Deut. xxxiii. 27.
[541] Deut. xxxiii. 18, 19.
[542] יִתְבֹּלֵל from בלל. In Phœn. בלל seems to have been used as in Israel of the sacrificial mingling of oil and flour (cf. Robertson Smith, Religion of Semites, I. 203); in Arabic ball is to weaken a strong liquid with water, while balbal is to be confused, disordered. The Syriac balal is to mix. Some have taken Hosea's יתבלל as if from בליל (Isa. xxx. 24; Job vi. 5), usually understood as a mixed crop of wheat and inferior vegetables for fodder; but there is reason to believe בליל means rather fresh corn. The derivation from בלה to grow old, does not seem probable.
[543] xii. 8.