The Prophecies of Isaiah: Translated and Explained, Volume 1 (Biblia.com)

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Following an extensive introduction to the book of Isaiah, Joseph Addison Alexander offers critical commentary on the original text. Offering both synoptic annotation and semantic inquiry into the text, Alexander elucidates of the literal and figurative prose. Volume one covers chapters one through thirty-one.

here intended to convey a contemptuous allusion to the primary meaning of the name in question. As an appellative, it is a noun of place derived from דמן, and denoting either a manured field or a dunghill. The keri, or Masoretic reading in the margin, has במו, a poetical equivalent of ב, the preposition in. The kethib, or textual reading, which is probably more ancient, is במי, in the water. This, with the next word, may denote a pool in which the straw was left to putrefy. In Job 9:30 we have an

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