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Kol
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or (Heb. id. קוֹע , Sept. ῾Υχουέ v. r. Κούθ, Κουδέ, Λούδ; Vulg. principes), a word that occurs but once, in the prophetic denunciations of punishment to the Jewish people from the various nations whose idolatries they had adopted: " The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses" (Ezekiel 23:23). The Sept., Symmachus, Theodotion, Targums, Peshito, and Engl. Vers., followed by many interpreters, regard it as a proper name of some province or place in the Babylonian empire; but none such has been found, and the evident paronomasia with the preceding term in the same verse suggests a symbolical signification as an appellative, which appears to be furnished by the kindred Arabic kua, the designation of a he-camel or stallion for breeding (a figure in keeping with the allusions in the context to gross lewdness, as a type of idolatry), and hence tropically a prince or noble. This is the sense defended by J. D. Michaelis (Suppl. 2175), after Jerome and the Heb. interpreters, and adopted by Gesenius (Thesaur. Heb. p. 1207). (See SHOA); (See PEKOD).
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Kol'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/k/kol.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
