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(in the sing.) is the rendering, in the A.V., of the following Heb. and Gr. words
1. בּוּל, bul, lit. produce ("food," Job 40:20); hence the trunk of a tree ("stock," Isaiah 44:19);
2. גֶּז ע , geza, the stump ("stock," Job 14:8) or trunk ("stem," Isaiah 11:1; "stock," 40:24) of a tree;
3. עֵוֹ, ets (Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 10:8), a tree, or piece of wood, as elsewhere rendered;
4. עֵקֶר, eker, a plant rooted up and then transplanted in a foreign soil (Leviticus 25:47);
5. γένος (Acts 13:26; Philippians 3:5), race, or kindred (as elsewhere rendered). A gazingstock (Nahum 3:6) is רַאַי, roi, a sight (variously rendered elsewhere).
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Stock'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/s/stock.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Stock'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/s/stock.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
