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Tears

The prayer of David, “Put my tears into thy bottle,” is unintelligible without an acquaintance with ancient customs. “This passage,” says Burder, “seems to intimate that the custom of putting tears into the ampullæ, or urnal lachrymales, so well known among the Romans, was more anciently in use among the eastern nations, and particularly the Hebrews. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H1832
Hebrew
דִּמְעָה

Strong’s and original-language information

H1832

דִּמְעָה

Glosses: tears

Indexed occurrences: 22

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Complete dictionary entries

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

TEARS

The prayer of David, “Put my tears into thy bottle,” is unintelligible without an acquaintance with ancient customs. “This passage,” says Burder, “seems to intimate that the custom of putting tears into the ampullæ, or urnal lachrymales, so well known among the Romans, was more anciently in use among the eastern nations, and particularly the Hebrews. These urns were of different materials, some of glass, some of earth;

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

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