HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8105
שֶׁ֫מֶר
she.mer — dreg
lees, dregs
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Lees
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GREEK · G9675
φυγάς
phugas — an exile
1. one who flees from his country, a runaway, fugitive, a banished man, exile, refugee , Lat. exul, profugus, (Herdotus Historicus), attic; φυγάδα ποιεῖν τινα (Xenophon Historicus); κατάγειν φυγάδας to recall them; etc. 2. of an army, put to flight , (Sophocles Tragicus) (ML)
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(Heb. shemarim), from a word meaning to keep or preserve. It was applied to “lees” from the custom of allowing wine to stand on the lees that it might thereby be better preserved (Isa. 25:6). “Men settled on their lees” (Zeph. 1:12) are men “hardened or crusted.” The image is derived from the crust formed at the bottom of wines long left undisturbed (Jer. 48:11). The effect of wealthy undisturbed ease on the ungodly is hardening. They become stupidly secure (comp. Ps. 55:19; Amos 6:1). To drink the lees (Ps. 75:8) denotes severe suffering.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.