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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(hollow). Bird-trap (
Jer. 5:27
27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. (Jeremiah 5:27)
);
prison
(
Rev. 18:2
2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (Revelation 18:2)
).
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It is said symbolically that as a
cage
or trap is full of
birds
, so
the
houses of the Jews were full of deceit (
Jer. 5:27
27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. (Jeremiah 5:27)
). “A cage of every
unclean
and hateful
bird
,” is a character a mystical
Babylon
(
Rev. 18:2
2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (Revelation 18:2)
).
The word
here is θυλακή,
often
translated “
prison
.”
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