![]() ![]() ![]() The Hebrews, as was natural, carefully distinguished the characteristics of the individual winds. 8), and used the "stormy winds" as instruments in the execution of His judgments (Isa. He likewise made them His messengers and servants (Ps. 16), and controlling their power and "weight" (Job xxviii. 13), causing them to come from out His treasuries (Ps. 41), and Yhwh's power appeared the greater in that it was He who created them (Amos iv. Indeed, in their action, as in their origin, the winds were phenomena wholly without the sphere of human knowledge (Ps. The ancient Hebrews had no conception of the nature and causes of winds for them, as for every ancient people, the wind was a mysterious creation, whose paths were always unknown (Eccl. 1 et seq.: "At the ends of the earth I saw twelve doors opened toward all the quarters of heaven, and the winds came forth from them, and blew over the earth"). 1, these storehouses were guarded by four angels, who restrained the winds, as they continually strove to break loose (comp. The dwelling-places of the winds were in the four corners of the earth ("ḳeẓot haareẓ") there they were confined in storehouses, from which Yhwh sent them forth (Jer. Ancient Hebrew literature recognizes only four winds-north, south, east, and west, having no names for those from intermediate points, so that such a designation as "north" has a wide range of application. ![]()
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