Gravel
Gravel
(, chatsats’, something broken off small; gravel-stone, Pro 20:17; Lam 3:16. In Psalm lxxvii. 7, , “thine arrows,” is regarded by Fulrst as a reduplicative form from ; in Isa 48:19, , erroneously “the gravel thereof,” is undoubtedly the same as in preceding, and stands elliptically for “[the issue of] its bowels,” sc. the sea’s, i.e., the fish that spawn so numerously), comminuted rock, coarser than sand, but smaller than stones, forming a large part of what is known geologically as “drift” or diluvium over the surface of the earth. SEE LAND.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Gravel
gravel (, hacac, from root , hacac, to divide. Kindred roots have the meaning of to cut, to hew, to sharpen, hence , hec, arrow (2Ki 13:17; Psa 64:7 and often); compare Arabic hassa, to fall to the lot of, hissah, portion): In Pro 20:17, we have:
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man;
But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
And in Lam 3:16 :
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
The only other occurrence of the word is in Psa 77:17, where it is the equivalent of hec, arrow (see supra):
The clouds poured out water;
The skies sent out a sound:
Thine arrows also went abroad.
Pro 20:17 and Lam 3:16 both suggest the frequent occurrence of grit in the coarse bread, the source of the grit being not necessarily the grindstone, but possibly even small stones originally mingled with the wheat and never properly separated from it.