BANNER, ENSIGN, STANDARD.That the Hebrews, like the Egyptians (Wilkinson, Anc. Egyp. [1878] I. 195, illust.), Assyrians, and other ancient nations, possessed military ensigns is a safe inference from Num 2:2, but not from the mention of the standard-bearer in Isa 10:18 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , which is to be rendered as RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] . Nothing certain, however, is known regarding them. In the former passage a distinction seems to be madefor another view see Grays Com. in loc.between the ensigns (lit. signs, cf. Psa 74:4 where the reference is probably to the standards of Antiochus army) of the fathers houses, and the standards (the banner of Son 2:4; cf. Son 6:4; cf. Son 6:10) of the four great divisions of the Hebrew tribes in the wilderness, according to the artificial theory of the priestly writer.<\/p>\n
Equally uncertain is the relation of these to the ns, which was a wooden pole (Num 21:8 f. AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] standard cf. the parallelism with mast Isa 30:17 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ), set up on an eminence as a signal for the mustering of the troops. This word is of frequent occurrence both in the original sense and in the figurative sense of a rallying point, in the prophetic announcements of the future (Isa 5:26; Isa 11:10, Jer 4:21 and often). The rendering alternates between ensign and banner.<\/p>\n
A. R. S. Kennedy.<\/p>\n
Banner, Ensign, Standard BANNER, ENSIGN, STANDARD.That the Hebrews, like the Egyptians (Wilkinson, Anc. Egyp. [1878] I. 195, illust.), Assyrians, and other ancient nations, possessed military ensigns is a safe inference from Num 2:2, but not from the mention of the standard-bearer in Isa 10:18 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , which is to be rendered as … Continue reading “Banner, Ensign, Standard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}