Numbers 21:3
And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the Chanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.
Challoner: AnathemaThat is, a thing devoted to utter destruction.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Exaudivitque Dominus preces Israël, et tradidit Chananæum, quem ille interfecit subversis urbibus ejus : et vocavit nomen loci illius Horma, id est, anathema.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσήκουσεν Κύριος τῆς φωνῆς Ἰσραὴλ καὶ παρέδωκεν τὸν Χανανεὶν ὑποχείριον αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισεν αὐτὸν καὶ τὰς πόλεις αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπεκάλεσαν τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου Ἀνάθεμα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּשְׁמַ֨ע יְהוָ֜ה בְּק֣וֹל יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַיִּתֵּן֙ אֶת הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י וַיַּחֲרֵ֥ם אֶתְהֶ֖ם וְאֶת עָרֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּקְרָ֥א שֵׁם הַמָּק֖וֹם חָרְמָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Anathema. That is, a thing devoted to utter destruction. (Challoner)
The explanation of Horma is inserted by St. Jerome. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.