{(/) In the NT this bag or purse is also expressed by fcJi'T) (Mt 3^ 10", Ac 21", Rev 1" 15«). A modern illustration of this is found in the waist-belt of
BAG. OmDLB-Prm.SR, ;(wnb
the Syrian peasant, which is double for a foot and a half from the buckle, thus making a safe and well-guarded purse. G. M. Mackie.
BAGGAGE.— In AV Jth 7», 2 Mac 122' -the women and children and the other b.' (dxoiricfi'!)). KV gives b. for 'carriage' at 1 S 17--'"", and for 'carriages' at Is 10'*, Ac 21"; and Amer. RV gives b. for ' stutf ' at 1 S 25"' 30«. See CAintlAGE and Stuff. J. Hastings.
BAGO (A Ba7«, B Bofai), 1 Es 8".— The head of n family who returned with Ezra from Bab3'lon, ■.•.'illed Bagoi, 1 Es a" ; BlGVAI, Ezr 2".
BAGOAS (Bo7<ia5). — A eunuch in the service of
Holofemes (Jth 12"- '»• >» 13» 14"). The same name ai>pears in Persian history as that of the eunuch who poisoned Artaxerxes Ochus, and according to I'liny (HN XIII. iv. 9) it is the Persian equivalent of the Gr. cwoOxo'- J. A. Selbie.
BAGOI (A Ba7o/, B BoraO, 1 Es 5».— 2066 of his descendants returned from captivity with Zerub. Called BIOVAI (-1:3), Ezr 2" (2056 desc), Neh V" (2067); Bago, 1 EsS^".
BAGPIPE.— See Music.
BAHURIM (cnns). — The place where Michal is parted from her husband Phaltiel, as she is being taken back to David at Hebron (2 S 3>«). The village also where Shimei lived ; he came out thence to curse David when fleeing from Jerus. towards Jordan (2 S 16°). In this village Jonathan and Ahiraaaz took refuge when carrying news to David from Jerus.; they concealed themselves in the well of a house, and so managed to elude the servants of Absalom, who had been sent to capture them (2 S 17'*). According to the account of David's flight from Jerus. (ch. 15 ff.), it seems that he did not take the southern and more usual road to Jericho, which passes through Bethany, but adopted the shorter and more difhcult route, which runs in a N.E. direction over the Mt. of Olives. The Targ. preserves a tradition which identifies B. with Almon (Jos 21'*), the modern Almlt, about 4 miles N.E. of Jerus. and 1 mile beyond Anathoth (Anata), near the S. boundary of Benjamin. This \-iew, which is accepted by most moderns, agrees with the local details supplied by the narrative of David's flight. After leaving the summit of the Mt. of Olives (15'" 16'), David made his way down the E. slopes of the range towards Jordan. A ' rib ' or ridge of hill apparently ran parallel to this N. route, from which it was separated by a ravine or pilly (16' ' let me go over now'), so that Shimei, running along the top of the hill, could cast stones and dirt at the king with impunity. Barhiunite (2 S 23" •cn-i;) is clearly a mistake for Baharumite =a native of Bahurim, which is more correctly given by the Chronicler (1 Ch 11^ 'pnnjn ; point 'PirjJD the Eahurimmite). ' J. F. Stenning. BAITERUS (BaiTi;poD$, AV Meteru8), 1 Es 5". — The sons of B. returned with Zerub., to the number of 3005. It probably represents a Heb. place-name beginning with Beth- : but there is no corresponding name in the lists of Ezr 2 and Neh 7.
H. St. J. Thackeray. BAKBAKKAR (-ip;p3).— A Levite (1 Ch 9'°). See Genealogy.
BAKBUK (P'3p3). — The ancestor of cer- tain Nethinim who returned with Zerub. (Ezr 2", Neh 7"). Called ACUB (1 Es 5^').
BAKBUKIAH (TP3P3).— 1. A Levite who ' dwelt at .lerusalcm' (Neh 11"). 2. One of the porters who ' kept the ward at the storehouses of the gates ' (Neh 12"). See Genealogy.
40" only, ' all manner of lit. ' all kinds of food o!
BAKEMEATS.— Gn
b. for I'haraoli' (Heb. Pharaoh's bakers' work'). Dr. Murray {Orf. Eng. Diet.) gives the meaning of b. as simply 'pastry, a pie.' It is any kind of meat baked or cooked: cf. Chaucer, I'rulugiie to Cnnt. Talcs, 345 — * Withoute bake rapte was never hU hoiu Of tleisach and ftssch.'
And Shakespeare, ffnm/ef, I. ii. 180 — ' The funeral baked mcata Did coldly furnish forth the marri.ipo tables.'
J. HASTINQg.
BAKING.— See Bread.
BALAAM (cv''3).—Nu 22-24. 31»-'«, Dt 2.3* (Neh 13-), Jos 13-- 24''- '", Mie 0», 2 P 2", Jude v.", Rev 2".
BALAA^I
BALAAM
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The subject of a very remarkable story in con- nexion with the \van(lerinj;s of the Israelites in the wiiderness. The present narrative has arisen from the combination of several more or less ancient traditions. According to the latest, emliodied in tlie Priestly Code (P), and contained in Nu SI*- '" (eorap. Rev 2"), Halaam was a Midianitish coun- sellor, who persuaded his people to seduce tlie Israelites by means of certain immoral rites. This is probably to be connected with the great sin of Buil-p^or (Nu 2.")), or, to be more accurate, with the affair of Cozbi (25*'-), whicli has been combined with the story of Baalpeor {2.V'^}, the former being connected with the Midianitea, the latter with the Moabites. In revenge for this, Balaam was after- wards slain with the princes of Midian (Nu 31*, Jos IS-^). It has been conjectured that this story arose partly out of a difliculty on the part of the priestly narrator in conceiving ot a heathen bein^jan inspired prophet of God, partlj' from the need of accounting tor the great sin of the Israelites. It is, however, very doubtful whether this story belongs to tlie earliest form of P, and it is by Kuenen assigned to the very latest redactor. It is significant tliat Rev 2" definitely connects the immorality with sacrificial rites to neat hen gods,— a fact implied, but not distinctly stated by V.