Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexastichs
Literary usage of Hexastichs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms by Charles Augustus Briggs, Emilie Grace Briggs (1907)
"In the second sections all peoples and all nature are summoned to a festival in
the temple courts in celebration of the advent, in three trimeter hexastichs ..."
2. Biblical Commentary on the Psalms by Franz Delitzsch, Francis Bolton (1871)
"... and two hexastichs form tho third, according to the very same law by which
the third and the sixth days of creation each consists of two creative works. ..."
3. The Literature of the Old Testament in Its Historical Development by Julius August Bewer (1922)
"(24 **~u) There are also longer units, hexastichs, etc.; the famous description
of the drunkard may serve as an illustration: Who has woe? who has sorrow? ..."
4. The Bible and English Prose Style: Selections and Comments by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1906)
"... occur but seldom in the OT., and those of six lines (hexastichs) are still
rarer; see for the former, Nu. 24, 8. ..."
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