Isaiah 44:3-4
Verse 4. They shall spring up as among the grass-"They shall spring up as the grass among the waters"] bebeyn chatsir, "They shall spring up in the midst of, or rather, in among, the grass." This cannot be right: eleven MSS., and thirteen editions, have kebeyn, or keben. Twenty-four MSS. read it without the yod, beben, in the son of the grass; and so reads the Chaldee; beben, in the son of the grass. Twenty-four MSS. of Dr. Kennicott's, thirty-three of De Rossi's, and one of my own, with six editions, have this reading. The Syriac, mibbeyn. The true reading is in all probability kebeyn; and the word mayim, which should have followed it, is lost out of the text: but it is happily supplied by the Septuagint, ωςαναμεσονυδατος, as among the water. "In every place where there is water, there is always grass; for water makes every thing grow in the east." Sir John Chardin's note on 1Ki 17:5. Harmer's Observations i. 64.
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