Place where the Jews were in captivity, but from whence they would be brought to possess 'the cities of the south.' Obadiah 20 . The LXX has 'as far as Ephratha'; and the Vulgate 'in Bosphoro.' Jerome considered the word signified 'boundary,' and referred to the dispersion of the Jews in any region.
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