| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. 2. (n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. 3. (n.) The neck or throat 4. (n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia CRAG krag (shen (1 Samuel 7:12; 1 Samuel 14:4 Job 39:28 the King James Version and the English Revised Version)): In a mountainous country composed of sedimentary rocks, like the cretaceous rocks of Palestine, cliffs are formed on a slope where hard strata are underlaid by softer strata. The soft strata wear away more rapidly, undermining the hard strata above them, which for a time project, but finally break off by vertical joint planes, the fragments rolling down to form the talus slope at the foot of the cliff. As the breaking off of the undermined hard strata proceeds irregularly, there are left projecting crags, sometimes at the top of the cliff, and sometimes lower down. Two such crags (shen ha-cela`, "sharp rock," the Revised Version (British and American) "rocky crag"), which were given particular names, Bozez and Seneh, marked the scene of the exploit of Jonathan described in 1 Samuel 14. Conder failed to identify the crags, and it has been proposed to alter the text rather extensively to make it read: "wall of rock" instead of "crag" (Encyclopedia Biblica, under the word "Michmash"). Such rocks form safe resting-places for birds of prey, as it is said of the eagle in Job 39:28 English Revised Version: "She dwelleth on the rock and hath her lodging there, Upon the crag of the rock, and the stronghold." Alfred Ely Day |  | Multi-Version Concordance Crag (5 Occurrences) Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock; (DBY JPS NIV) 1 Samuel 14:4 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV) 1 Samuel 14:5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV) Job 39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. (KJV JPS WBS NAS RSV NIV) Psalms 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. (See NIV) |
