Dict: smith - HORN

smith:

HORN - H>@ - The word "horn" is often used metaphorically to signify strength and honor, because horns are the chief weapons and ornaments of the animals which possess them; hence they are also used as a type of victory. Of strength the horn of the unicorn was the most frequent representative, (33:17) etc., but not always; comp. (Kings:22:11) where probably horns of iron, worn defiantly and symbolically on the head, are intended. Among the Druses upon Mount Lebanon the married women wear silver horns on their heads. In the sense of honor, the word horn stands for the abstract "my horn," kjv@Job:16:16) "all the horn of Israel," ( kjv@1Samuel:2:3) and so for the supreme authority. It also stands for the concrete , whence it comes to mean king, kingdom. kjv@Daniel:8:2) etc.; kjv@Zechariah:1:18 Out of either or both of these last two metaphors sprang the idea of representing gods with horns.

HORNET - H>@ - The hornet bears a general resemblance to the common wasp, only it is larger. It is exceedingly fierce and voracious, especially in hot climates and its sting is frequently dangerous. In Scripture the hornet is referred to only by the means which Jehovah employed for the extirpation of the Canaanites. kjv@Exodus:23:28 kjv@Exodus:7:20; kjv@Joshua:24:12) Wisd. 12:8. (It is said that the Phaselitae, a Phoenician people, were driven from their locality by hornets; and other examples are given in Paxton’s "Illustrations of Scripture," 1:303.
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