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Ezekiel 27:28

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:28

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The suburbs. The word is so translated in , and , and is used of the pasture-lands round the cities of refuge in . Here it is probably used in a wider sense for the coast-lands of Phoenicia, or even for the "waves" that washed the shores of the island-city.

The Vulgate gives classes (equivalent to "fleets").

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