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AMULETS
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the Oriental mind familiar with this amulet faith, the words seem very natural, 'lie strong' in the Lord, and in the I'ower of His nii^dit.' ' I'erfect love casteth out fear.' ' I can do all tliinf,'3 in Him that stren<;theneth me.' Thus the a. has a true word of jiower, for it teaches, 'When I am devoted, I am endued.' By a similar vehicle the apostle reaches the experience which siiys, 'When I am weak, then am I stronj;.'
3. Clussijiciitiun. This corresponds with the dan<;ers and the points of contact. There is an a. fur the heart (illust. 1) worn almost universally in the East. It is a locket susj)eniied over the breast, and consists sometimes of a .small metal case of
With this may be classed the neck-amulet. See CinsCKNT. Similarly, there were a" for the nose and mouth fur the danf;ers by inhalation ; for the ear and the temptations of hearing; for the eye and what meets its vision (illu.st. 3, 7, 8). And so the veil for the head and face, and the slieet enveloping the whole li;,'ure of the tjriental woman, now the formalities of mo<lesty, were doubtless once full of superstitious meaninj;. See VEIL. Amulet articles aiming' the Jews are chiefly the friiijL'es of larf;e and small tallitli : the mezuza ; the paper with I's 121 and certain Abracadabra for- mulas which the Rabbi puts in the room where there is an infant less than eight days old ; and the
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1. The 'Shield of Dft\'ifl,'or 'Solomon's Seal,' a favourit*? a. among the Jcwa, 2. Extract from .Towish Birth- A., which rives, under I's 121, the name.s of the Patriarchs and their wives, with a fonnnia at eat-h sitie furhidding tlie apprtiai-h of I.ililh or any wilrii. a. Hreast-a. {taitheh). 4. Eye-a., seen in tho hross tliimlik'-Iil(c ornament on the nose of the K^rvptian wiirii;iii. .^>, (1. Cartns, and hlaclt or red hund-a*. 7, 8, A< for nose and cars, worn by Uedavvin women, along with necklace, l.r.utU-ts, and annlet-
pold or silver, but more frci|. of a hcailshapcd shi'ath of cloth ornamcnlcil with a design in j^'old thread. This may contain for the Moslem a few woiils from the Ivoraii. called a /";/"/(, covering;, prolcctioM : and if for a Christian, a picture of the \ ir;,'in and Child, called a laubth, 'penitence.'
phylacteries of the brow and arui. See I'livi.. ACTBUV. Amulets are also used for the luotectioii. not only of animals such as camels and horses, but (■\cii for newly-built bouses, such protection usually taliiiij; the form of a nni^'hlydr.iw n hiiiii.in h.'uid in black or red, or of a cactus plant or aloe hunj;
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AMZI
ANAMIM
by the roots from the arch of the doonvay and kept alive by the moisture of the air (illust. 5 and Q) G. M. Mackie.
&MZI (•VDK).— 1. A Merarite, 1 Ch 6**. 2. A puest in the second temple, Neh 11". See Gene- alogy.
AN.— 1. An, called the indef. article, is the old Eng. form of the nvun. adj. one. As early as lloO the n is found dropped before a consonant, and at the date of the AV the usage had become general to employ a before a consonantal sound (incluclmg « and eu pronounced yu), and an before a vowel sound (including sUent k). Some hesitation is found when the art. precedes a word beginning with ich. Thus we find 'an whole m Nu lU (ed of 1611), but 'a whole' in Nu 11-"; an whore- in Pr'23^ (ed. 1611). 2 Ea 16« (ed. 1611) but ' a whore ' elsewhere. Agam, the ed. of lb 1 gives 'such an one' in Job If, Sir 6 ^lO' 20' , 2 Mac 6"; but 'such a one' in Gn 41'"', Ku 4 , Ps 50=' 68=', Sir 26^, 1 Co 5»- ", 2 Co 10" 12=- », Gal 6', PhUem ». Later edd. give 'such an one in all these passages.
More varied is the usage when the art. precedes h In the ed. of 1611 (the later edd. have m;ule many changes) we find ' a habitation, Jer ii ', but 'an hab!' in Ex 15', Is 22'" 34'» and other hve places ; 'a hair' in 1 K 1» Lk 2V^ but 'an hair in Dn 3=', Mk 21i«, Ac 27»* ; ' a hairy,' Gn 2/", but 'an hairy,' Gn 25=», 2 K I'; 'a hammer, Jer 23- , but ' an hammer,' Jg 4" ; and so with many other words. The explanation of this inconsistency prob- ably is, not that the usage for a or an wa,s not fixed, but that there was no fixed pronunciation of h. On the whole, an is found more frequently than a before words beginning with A.
2. In 'an hungered' ('a hungered is not 'ouml in AV 1611), winch occurs Mt 4= 12'- » 25-»- «■ ^^- ". Mk 2*> Lk 6^ the an is not the indef. art., but the prep, an or on. See A». J. Hastings.
ANAB (3:y 'grapes').— A city of Judah in the Ne"eb hUls "(Jos IP' 15»), inhabited first by the Anakim. Now the ruin 'Anab near Debir. It is noticed as still a village in the 4th cent. A.D. (Onovuisticon, s.v. Anab). SIVP yol.m sh. xxiv.
* C. R. COSDER.
ANAEL {'Am-fi\, but ^n:in Syr. and Ileb., and S.yDn Aram.) was brother of Tobit and father of Achiacharus, To l**.