1 ih&U discover a thing to you.'
2 Fvhibit disDlav, as Blount (1600): 'The moie he mounted, the more he discovered his incapac.Ue ' hemountea ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ '^«"f ''> ""u M RV
t:$^''\.y discovered a cert^ -^^^^r ' RV ' perceived ).
DISCUS.-See Games. DISEASE.-See Medi- cine. DISH.-See Food.
niSH&N dc'-^).— A son of Seir, Gn 36='- • = ,^l,^u Tn Gn36» the reacting IP"^ of MT Bhouli be' emended to ^1. after 1 Ch 1". See following article.
DISHON.-l. A son of Seir. jWn Gn 36" = iy-'! 1 CI "2. A son of Anah and grandson of Seir
t r ^bo^::^ ind '^2 a^e%f co-.^-t indi-
s^rt1•o<^tfon^^r/'mrr":f^uneJ
fTL!^l Dt 14» (only) a. the name of a c ^^ oniinal (LXX iri>yo<ryo5, AV and RV pygart ).
Hommel (Na,ncn der S<'i'gethiere,m) Jenvin the word from a root u^^ = sprrn^, leap «>«• Ass^^
.W,„), thinks of the^ -°^°«"^"T,^r .is^nc:'^ Delitzsch (Assyr. Stiui. I. 54)^ J,"« ^ . j^gn Buch animal names amongst the HorUes has oe ttseil by W. R. Smith as an argument in lavcur »
DISHONESTY
divi:n'ation
611
toteniism. See Journal of Pliilulugy, be. 75 If., Kiruthip and Marriage in Early Arabia, and liS (passim) ; and for the contrary opinion, Noldeke in ZDMG (1886), 148-187. Cf. also Jacobs, Studies in Bib. Arc/ueol. (1894), and Gray, Heb. Prop. Names (1896), p. 86 ff. J. A. Sklbie.
DISHONESTY in 2 Co 4' is used in the obsolet« sense of 'disjiruce' (alaxivt], RV 'sliaiue,' after Wye, Gen. ; AV followed Rhemish NT; Tindale has ' URhonp.'ity '). Cf. Coverdale's tr. of Rii 2" ' Let her gatlier belwene the sheues also, and do her no dishonestye' ; and of Sir 3" 'Where the father is without honoure, it is the dishonesty of the sonne.' ' Dislionest ' Sir 26**, and ' dishonestly ' 22^, are DBed in the same sense. J. UastING.s.
DISPATCH To 'dispatch bnsiness' is still in
use, as in To 7' ' let this business be dispatched,' 2 Mac 12" 'before he hadd. anything he departed.' But to ' d. a journey,' i.e. ' expedite,' is out of use ; nor is any example given in Ox/. Eng. Diet., 2 Mac 9* being missed : ' Therefore commanded he his chariot man to drive without ceasing, and to dispatch the journey.'
To 'diBpatcb,' i.e. 'pet rid of quickly* by death, is found W\t 111", »nd In Ezk 23^', where BV gives 'despatch,' a spellinj,' which is incorrect, and which wa« unknown till the beg. of tlie 19th cent. It seeins to have arisen from Johnson having accidentally ent«red the word no in hia Diet., thout;h he hinuelf alwayi Bp«lU it * dispatch.' See O^. Kng, Diet. ».v.
J. Hastings. DISPERSION See Israel.
DISPOSITION Ac 7"' Who have received the
law by the d. of angels ' (Gr. fit 510x070! a.yii\u>i ; RV 'as it was ordained by angels' ; RVm ' unto ordinances of augels,' cf. Ro l.i'^ tou deou Siarayfi, A V and RV ' the ordinance of (Jod ' ). ' Disposition ' U the Rhemish word here (Wye, Tind., Gen. have 'ordinance' ; Cov., Cran. 'ministration'), and it is used in the arcliaic sense of administration. In the same sense ' disposer ' is used by Tind. in 1 Co 4' 'Let men this wise esteeme us, even as the ministers of Christ, and disposers of the secretes of God' (EV 'stewards,' Gr. oUovb/jiOi) ; and by Gen. (1560) in 1 1' 4"" 'Let euerie man as he hathe received the gifte, minister the same one to stnother, as good disposers of the manifolde grace of God ' (Y.\ ' stewards '). ' Disposing ' in Pr 1G»^ ' The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord,' is used in the earlier sense of control, disposal ; while the vb. ' dispose ' in Job 34" 37",2 Es 5« 8", Sir 16'»ha.s the still earlier and primary meaning of 'arriingo in proper order.' Tliis primary meaninfj (as Lat. dis- ponere) seeins to be intended by 'disposition' in 2 Es S" (pldsmii) 8** (Jigmentum), tlie Lat. words so tr. having ref. to the creation of man ; but in Jth 8^, Ad. Est 16", Sir '20^, the word is used in the familiar sense of ' bent of mind,' ' character,' a sense which is found an early as 1387 : Trevisa, Iligilen, iii. 113 : ' Nought by chaungynge of body, but by chaung- ynge of disposicioun of wit and of seniynge.'
J. Hastinqs.
DISPUTE, piSPDTATION.— As 'debate' has lost the meaning of wrangling, so 'dispute' has acquired it. In older Eng. to 'dispute' was to discuss or argue, witliout strife. Thus B]). Carleton (1610), Jurisd. Pref., 'I have disputed the Kings right with a good conscience, from the rules of Gods word,' i.e. I have discussed it, argued for it : cf. Sir T. More, Utopia, p. 53, ' that tliey maye in everye matter despute and reason for the kynges right' ; Knox, lllit. p. 25, 'after that Sir James Hamilton was beheaded (justly or unjustly we disput* not),' and p. 213 ' He [Knox] did gravely dispute uijon the nature of the blinde world.' So in AV, Job 23' ' Tliere the righteous
might dispute with him' (nj'i), RV 'reason'); Mk ^ 'What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?' (510X07(^0^01, BV 'were ye reasoning,' as 2"-* AV) ; 9^ 'for by the way they had disputed among themselves who should be the greatest ' (5ioW7o/tai) : RV keeps ' dispute ' here, but the disciples' shame was not that they had wrangled, but that they had discussed sucn a question at all. The same Greek is similarly tr'' in AV of Ac 17" (RV 'reasoned'), 19*- » (RV 'reasoning'), 24", Jude» (so RV). The subst. Jia\o7i(r^6s is once tr. ' disputing,' Ph 2" AV, RV, * Do all things without murmurings and disput- ings ' ; but even here Thayer prefers ' hesitation,' 'doubting,' Lightfoot 'inward quest ionin'js.' In Ac & tf* (irufijWw) the meaning is plainly ' discuss,' ' argue ' ; so 15' (irufTiTTjcris) and 1 Co 1* (irufjrrTp-iJs). The only passage in which ' dispute ' seems to have the meaning of ' wrangle ' is 1 Ti 6' ' Perverse dis- putiugs of men of corrupt minds' (TR iropaSio- Tpifial, edd. Siairaparpifial, RV ' wranglings'). Here Wye. has ' lightyngis ' and Rhem. ' contlictes ' after Vulg. conjiirtationes, but Tind. and the rest ' disputations,' a word which never seems to signify 'altercation,' 'wrangling.' The Gr. word is found nowhere else.