Egg in Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Heb. beytsah, "whiteness"). Eggs deserted (Isa. 10:14), of
a
bird (Deut. 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:14), the
cockatrice (Isa.
59:5). In Luke 11:12, an egg is contrasted with a
scorpion,
which is said to be very like an egg in its
appearance, so much
so as to be with difficulty at times distinguished
from it. In
Job 6:6 ("the white of an egg") the word for egg
(hallamuth')
occurs nowhere else. It has been translated
"purslain" (R.V.
marg.), and the whole phrase "purslain-broth", i.e.,
broth made
of that herb, proverbial for its insipidity; and
hence an
insipid discourse. Job applies this expression to
the speech of
Eliphaz as being insipid and dull. But the common
rendering,
"the white of an egg", may be satisfactorily
maintained.
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