Golden City
Golden City
( madhebah’; Sept. (,Vulg. tributum), a term applied as an epithet of Babylon (Isa 14:4), and occurring nowhere else. Some derive it from the Aramoean , gold, as a verb-form (in the Hip. part. fem.) = gold-making, i.e., exactress of gold, a not inapt emblem of the impe rial mart (parallel hemistich , grinding); or else a heap or treasury of gold ( pref. formative of place). So Gesenius prefers with hesitation (Thes. Heb. page 322 b), after Kimchi, Aben-Ezra, etc. Others (so Frst, Heb. Lex. s.v.), following the Targums, Sept., Aquilla, Syriac, asnd Arab. of Sadias, prefer to read , in the sense of oppression, from rahab’, to scare (compare Isa 3:5, where occurs in parallelism with SEE BABYLON.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Golden, City
gold’n: The translation golden city (Isa 14:4) is an attempt to render the received text (, madhhebhah), but can hardly be justified. Almost all the ancient versions read (, marhebhah), a word which connotes unrest and insolence, fitting the context well.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Golden City
“The golden city ceased,” Isa 14:4 is better translated, as in the margin, “the exactress of gold ceased!” Babylon, which had heaped up gold by its conquests, was overcome.