chargeable,' Neh 5" ' the former governors, that had been before me, were c. unto the people ' ('T?jn Si', lit. ' made heavy on,' RVm ' laid burdens upon ') ; esp. in the matter of expense, 2 S 13^ ' let us not all now go [to the sheep-shearini/ feast], lest we be c. unto thee ' (i;?), RV ' be burden- some ') ; 1 Th 2' ' because we would not be c. unto any of you' (i-mfiapiu, 'be a weight upon,' RV ' that we might not burden ' ; .so 2 1 h 3") ; and 2 Co 1 1" ' I was c. to no man ' (icaTarap/idw, only here and 12"- ", though LXX gives simple vapKia as tr. of ro; 'to be ditilocated,' 'torn away,' (Jn 32^- '-'"', Job 33", Dn [LXX] 11«. The vb. k. is to benumb, as a torpedo [yipK-n] might benumb, and so to paralyse one by laying another's maintenance on him). Cf. Geneva B. ' I was not slothful to the hinderance of anie man ' ; RV ' I was not a burden on any man.' 2. The burden of expanse is also expressed by 'charge,' both verb and subst. : Neh 1(/- ' to c. ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God' (ICi) ; 1 Ti 5" 'let not the church be charged' (/3ape£(re(u,'RV 'be burdened' as in 2 Co 5' EV) :
1 Co 9" ' that ... I may make the gospel without c' (aSiiravoi) ; 9' 'who goeth a warfare anytime at his own cliarges?' (ioiois &\pu>Aoi^)\ Ac 21-* ' be at charges with them' (IIV 'for them,' Sairavrjacii iw' airroU, ' spend upon them '). Cf. Shaks. Bieh. III. I. iL25l>—
' I'D be at charges for a looking-glass.'
3. To lay a speci.al duty upon one, as 2 Ch 36^ = Ezr P ' he hath charged me to build him an house in .lerus.' (^i':5). Then this duty or responsibility is expres-sed bj" the subst. 'charge,' Job 34" ' %Vho hath given him (God) a c. over the earth?' (ip?) ; Jlh 7"- ' he dispersed the people every one to their own c' (waptfifioX-/)). Then the word is freely used (as tr. of n-ijy::), esp. in Nu (P) in a half-technical .sense, quite foreign to any modern idiom. Thus the duty is called, Nu 4" 'the c. of this burden.' Since J" imposes it, it is ' the c. of the Lord,' Lv 8". It is also called ' the c. of the sons of Gershon' (Nu 3-^), because on them the burden lies. And from its object or extent it is described as • 1" 'the c. of the tabernacle of the testimony ' ; '.f ' the c. of the ark' ; 3" ' the c. of the children of Israel ' ; or 3** ' the c. of the sanctuary, for the c. of the children of Israel.' 4. This meaning ixusses easily intt) rare OT cnstodi/; 2 K 7" ' to ajipoint to the c. of the gMte' (Tp?.7) ; 1 Ch 9-* (Sv) ; Ac S-' ' who had the c. of all her treasure' (^irl) ; Nu 31" ' the men of war which are under our c' It) : cf. Ac 1^ AVm ' (i(/ice OT charge' ({irtaKonfi, AV ' bishoprick,' RV 'oHioe,' R\'m 'over.seership'). 3. From ' give a c' (Ml 4°, Lk 4'", 1 Ti ti"), or ' give in c' (1 Ti .5' ' these things give in c.,' TrapayyiWu, RV 'command'), there njiturally arises the meaning of 'enjoin' or 'com- mand,' of wiiich the examples are numerous and obvious,* and the subst. c. = a command, as 2 S 18', Ac 18'^** ('charging the jailor to keep them safely; who, having received such a c.'), 1 Ti 1" 6". 6. The last and heaviest weight to lay on one is to 'lay blame.' fouml chielly in the phrase 'lay to the c. of,' Ut 2r, I's 35", Ac 7*' 23-*, Ro S*", 2 'I'i 4". But the simple verb is also used in this sense,
2 S 3' ' thou chargest me to-day with a fault con- cernin-' this woman'; Job 1" 'nor charged (Jod foolishly' (RV 'with foolishness'), 4" 'his angels he chargeth with folly.' J. Hastings.
CHARGER (orig. either something that may be loaded or something to load with. See Chahck). — A charger is ' a large plate or Hat dici. for carrying a large joint of meat,' Orf. Eng. Dwt. The word is
• H>it ico Ml 93", Mk l-" -.-.rultly chnrged." i^^.u««i»«i, with Thavcr on that word, Gould'a Dute on Mk I^, and Kxpoa. TimfjL vol.i. p. 172(1.
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Dsed as tr. of (1) nri^p Nu I passim, the silver c. ottered by various princes as a dedication gift ; (2) Sp-i:!! Ezr l""* ' tliirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver,' being part of the vessels of the house of the Lord restored by Cyrus ; (3) irirof Mt U8- ", Mk 6^- ^ of the charger in which Jolin the Baptist's head was presented to Salome, and by her to her mother. See BASKET, Food.