Cottage @ (1.) A booth in a vineyard Isaiah:1:8); a temporary shed covered with leaves or straw to shelter the watchman that kept the garden. These were slight fabrics, and were removed when no longer needed, or were left to be blown down in winter Job:27:18). (2.) A lodging-place (rendered "lodge" in Isaiah:1:8); a slighter structure than the "booth," as the cucumber patch is more temporary than a vineyard Isaiah:24:20). It denotes a frail structure of boughs supported on a few poles, which is still in use in the East, or a hammock suspended between trees, in which the watchman was accustomed to sleep during summer. (3.) In Zephaniah:2:6 it is the rendering of the Hebrew _keroth_, which some suppose to denote rather "pits" (R.V. marg., "caves") or "wells of water," such as shepherds would sink.
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