flinty
adjective
In Jewish tradition
It describes the stony rock from which God gave Israel oil.
Interpretation. Moses' song uses it to show God's care: even the hardest place gave food. Tradition reads it as a wonder of God's gifts in the land.
Meaning
Hard like flint stone. tree →
Examples
- He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he did eat the fruitage of the field; and He made him to suck honey out of the crag, and oil out of the flinty rock; (Torah DEU.32.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots. (Writings JOB.28.9, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
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