Isaiah (Major Prophet, Old Testament) · Prophetic poetry / Messianic
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God gathers the dispersed of Judah from the four kanaph (wings/corners/extremities) of the earth.
kanaph means wing/edge; its four-fold use is a compass-direction merism throughout the Hebrew Bible.
Four literal corners of an earth-plane from which exiles are gathered.
Idiom for 'from every direction' — the same imagery is used in Ezek 7:2 and Rev 7:1 to mean the whole earth.
Wing; edge; corner; extremity — often used of the four extremities of the earth.
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