Cockle

Occurs only in Job 31:40 (marg., "noisome weeds"), where it is the rendering of a Hebrew word (b'oshah) which means "offensive," "having a bad smell," referring to some weed perhaps which has an unpleasant odour. Or it may be regarded as simply any noisome weed, such as the "tares" or darnel of Matt. 13:30. In Isa. 5:2, 4 the plural form is rendered "wild grapes."

באשה. This word occurs only in Job xxxi, 40. By the Chaldee it is rendered _noxious herbs_; by Symmachus, ἀτελεσφόρητα, _plants of imperfect fruit_; by the Septuagint, βάτος, _the blackberry bush_; by Castelio, _ebulus_, “dwarf elder;” by Celsius, _aconite_; and by Bishop Stock and Dr. Good, _the night-shade_. M. Michaëlis maintains, after Celsius, that both this word and ֻּבאשִים, Isaiah v, 2, 4, denote the _aconite_, a poisonous plant, growing spontaneously and luxuriantly on sunny hills, such as are used for vineyards. He says that this interpretation is certain, because, as Celsius had observed, ביש, in Arabic, denotes the _aconite_; and he intimates that it best suits Job xxxi, 40, where it is mentioned as growing instead of barley. The word appears to import a weed not only noxious, but of a fetid smell. CŒLO-SYRIA, _hollow_ or _depressed_ Syria, Syria in the vale, 1 Macc. xiii, 10. This name imports the hollow land, or region, situated between two long ridges of mountains; and those mountains have been always understood to be Libanus and Anti-libanus. As these ridges run parallel for many leagues, they contain between them a long, extensive, and extremely fruitful valley.