North
NORTH
See EAST. The Babylonians and Assyrians are represented as coming from “the north,” because they invaded Israel by a northern route in order to avoid the desert, Jer 1:14 46:6,24 Zep 2:13 . “Fair weather,” says Job, or golden weather, “cometh out of the north,” Job 37:22 . This is as true in Syria and Arabia now as it was three thousand years ago. A traveler there remarks, “Our friends, who have been long residents, informed us that we should have fair weather for our start on the morrow, as the wind was from the north.””… And so we have found it come to pass that the clouds of a golden hue always followed upon a north wind, and indicated a clear day; and as in the times of the Savior, we could always say when it was evening, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,'” Mat 16:2 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
North
is the rendering which the A.V. gives in Job 37:9, for the Hebrew nezarim’, ; properly, as the margin reads, scattering winds, i.e. winds which scatter the clouds, and bring clear, cold weather. (The Sept. has , the Vulg. arcturus.) But Aben-Ezra and Michaelis understand Mezarim to mean a constellation, and the same as Mazzaroth (q.v.).
The Hebrews considered the cardinal points of the heavens in reference to a man whose face was turned towards the east, the north was consequently on his left hand (Gen 13:14; Jos 15:10; Jdg 21:19; Jer 1:13); hence the left hand designates the north (Gen 14:15; Job 23:9). They also regarded what lay to the north as higher, and what lay to the south as lower; hence they who traveled from south to north were said to go up (Gen 45:25; Hos 8:9; Act 18:3; Act 19:1), while they who went from north to south were said to go down (Gen 12:10; Gen 26:2; Gen 38:1; 1Sa 30:15-16; 1Sa 25:1; 1Sa 26:2).
Elsewhere, the word north in our version stands for the Hebrew tsaphon’,
, which is used in several senses:
1. It denotes a particular quarter of the heavens; thus, Fair weather cometh out of the north (Job 37:22); literally, gold cometh, which our version, with the best critical authorities, understands figuratively, as meaning the golden splendor (of the firmament, i.e. fair weather) (comp. Zec 4:12, goldcolored oil). The Sept. gives the cloud having the lustre of gold, which perhaps corresponds with the , the gilded mether, or sky, of an old Greek tragedian, quoted by Grotius. The same Hebrew word is used poetically for the whole heaven in the following passage: He stretcheth out the north (literally the concealed, dark place) (like , in Homer, Odys. 3:335; , Pindar, Nemae. 4:112) over the empty place (Job 26:7; Sept. ). Hence the meaning probably is that the north wind clears the sky of clouds; which agrees with the fact in Palestine, to which Solomon thus alludes, The north wind driveth away rain (Pro 25:23). Homer styles it , producing clear weather (Il. 15:171; Od. v. 296). Josephus calls it , that wind which most produces clear weather (Ant. 15:9, 6); and Hesychius, , or auspicious; and see the remarkable rendering of the Sept. in Pro 27:16. The word occurs also in the same sense in the following passages: The wind turneth about to the north (Ecc 1:6); A whirlwind out of the north (Eze 1:4).
2. It means a quarter of the earth (Psa 107:3; Isa 43:6; Eze 20:47; Eze 32:1;. comp. Luk 13:29).
3. It occurs in the sense of a northern aspect or direction, etc.; thus, looking north (1Ki 7:25; 1Ch 9:24; Num 34:7); on the north side (Psa 48:2; Eze 8:14; Eze 40:44; comp. Rev 21:13).
4. It is used as the conventional name for certain countries, irrespectively of their true geographical situation, viz. Babylonia, Chaldaea, Assyria, and Media, which are constantly represented as being to the north of Judaea, though some of them lay rather to the east of Palestine. Thus Assyria is called the north (Zep 2:13), and Babylonia (Jer 1:14; Jer 46:6; Jer 46:10; Jer 46:20; Jer 46:24; Eze 26:7; Jdt 16:4). The origin of this use of the word is supposed to be found in the fact that the kings of most of these countries, avoiding the deserts, used to invade Judaea chiefly on the north side, by way of Damascus and Syria. Thus also the kings of the north that were near may mean the kings of Syria, and those that are afar off the Hyrcanians and Bactrians, etc., who are reckoned by Xenophon among the peoples that were subjected or oppressed by the king of Babylon, and perhaps others besides of the neighboring nations that were compelled to submit to the Babylonian yoke (Jer 25:26). By the princes of the north (Eze 32:30) some understand the Tyrians and their allies (Eze 26:16), joined here with the Zidonians, their neighbors. The families of the north (Jer 1:15) are inferior kings, who were allies or tributaries to the Babylonian empire (Jer 34:1; Jeremiah 1, 41; Jer 2:27). The families of the north (Jer 25:9) may mean a still inferior class of people, or nations dependent on Babylon. But the king of the north is the king of Syria; opposed to the king of the south, i.e. Egypt (Dan 11:6-15; Dan 11:40). 5. The Hebrew word is applied to the north wind. In Pro 27:16, the impossibility of concealing the qualities of a contentious wife is compared to an attempt to bind the north wind. The invocation of Solomon (Son 4:16), Awake, oh north, and come, thou south, blow upon my garden that the spices may flow out, and which has occasioned much perplexity to illustrators, seems well explained by Rosenmller, as simply alluding to the effect of winds from opposite quarters in dispersing the fragrance of aromatic shrubs (Son 4:13-14) far and wide in all directions. A fine description of the effects of the north wind, in winter, occurs in Sir 43:20, which truly agrees with the horrifer Boreas of Ovid (Met. 1:65), and in which reference is made to the coincident effects of the north wind and of fire (v. 21; comp. v. 3, 4), like the Borese penetrabile frigus adurit of Virgil (Georg. 1:93); or Milton’s description,
The parching air Burns fierce, and cold performs the effects of fire. Paradise Lost, 2:595.
Josephus states that the north wind in the neighbori hood of Joppa was called by those who sailed there , the black north wind, and certainly his description of its effects, on one occasion, off that coast is appalling (War, 3:9, 3). SEE NOTUS.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
North
The Shemite, in speaking of the quarters of the heavens and of the earth, suppose his face turned towards the east, so that the east is before him, the west behind, the south on the right hand, and the north on the left. Hence the words which signify east, west, north, and south, signify also that which is before, behind, on the right hand, and on the left. The Hebrew word, translated north, occurs in the five following senses:
1.It denotes a particular quarter of the heavens: thus, ‘fair weather cometh out of the north’ (Job 37:22; see also Ecc 1:6, and Eze 1:4).
2.It means a quarter of the earth (Psa 107:3; Isa 43:6; Eze 20:47; Eze 32:30; comp. Luk 13:29).
3.It occurs in the sense of a northern aspect or direction, etc.; thus, ‘looking north’ (1Ki 7:25; 1Ch 9:24; Num 34:7); on ‘the north side’ (Psa 48:2; Eze 8:14; Eze 40:44; comp. Rev 21:13).
4.It seems used as the conventional name for certain countries, irrespectively of their true geographical situation, namely, Babylonia, Chaldea, Assyria, and Media, which are constantly represented as being to the north of Judea, though some of them lay rather to the east of Palestine. Thus Assyria is called the north (Zep 2:13), and Babylonia (Jer 1:14; Jer 46:6; Jer 46:10; Jer 46:20; Jer 46:24; Eze 26:7; Jdt 16:4).
5.The Hebrew word is applied to the north wind; see Pro 25:23 and Son 4:16.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
North
1. mezarim, lit. ‘the scattering’: regarding the north wind as scattering the clouds and bringing severe cold. Elihu said the cold came out of the north. The word occurs only in Job 37:9.
2. tsaphon, ‘hidden, dark.’ The ancients regarded the north as the region of gloom and darkness. This is the word commonly translated ‘north’ in the O.T. Job 37:9, etc.
3. , north. Luk 13:29; Rev 21:13.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
NORTH
Job 26:7; Job 37:9; Job 37:22; Isa 43:6; Luk 13:29
Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible
North
primarily Boreas, the North Wind, came to denote the “north” (cp. “Borealis”), Luk 13:29; Rev 21:13.
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
North
Job 26:7 (c) There are many ideas about this expression. It is probably best to believe that it represents the great and unknown power of the unseen GOD. (See also Psa 48:2; Isa 14:13). Let us remember that Satan endeavored to occupy GOD’s throne, and that was his great sin.