| 释义 |
> as lemmasthe calves of our lips in calf, with calf (said of the cow): pregnant. golden calf: the idol set up by Aaron, and the similar images set up by Jeroboam; sometimes proverbially with reference to the ‘worship’ of wealth. ‘ the calves of our lips’ (a doubtful translation of a difficult Hebrew passage, in Hos. xiv. 2 where the Septuagint and Peschito have ‘fruit’) is occasionally quoted in the sense of ‘an offering of praise’.< |