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DOD&I.— See D .
DODANIM (n-jil, LXX 'PMio., Gn 10«).— Fourth •on of Javan (lonians, Greeks), and therefore undoubtedly intended to designate a Gr. tribe or colony. Tliere can be no connexion, beyond an accidents- similarity in sound, with the inland town of Dodona in Kpirus. Nor can it mean Danlanians, as Uelilzscli still maintains, for the Trojan province of Dardaiiia was never of such consequence as to give its niiiiie to a leading family in the genealogy of mankind. Dillmann and others are inclined to accept the reading of tlie LXX (which is also that of the Samaritan trans- lation of the Pent, and of .Jerome, as well as the MT of I Ch 1'), and identify the Dodanim with the Hhodians or the inliahitiints of the isl.ands of the ./Egean Sea. If Elishah be Southern Italy and Sicily, the two pairs of sons of Javan will be
named from east to west : Elishah and Tarshish j Kittim (Cyprus) and Dodanim (Rhodes). The inhabitants of Rhodes from B.C. 800 onward were Ionian Greeks, sons of Javan, who took the place of the earlier Phumician population. The Rnodians are certainly in their proper place alongside of the Kittim. They were known even to Homer, and were visited from a very early period by all the tra<ling peoples of the Mediterranean coasts. Bochart's idea that they might be identified with the Gr. colonists on the banks of the Rhone (Rhodanas) has not commended itself to anyone.
Literature. — Baudisain In Herzog3, UL 6S4, antler ' Dodanim,' treats ably of the four sons of Juvau. See alno Winer, Schenliel, Rithm ; and Bertheau OD 1 Cb V in his Commentary.
J. Macpherson. DODAVAHU ('■ni'ii 'beloved of J",' AV Doda- vah). — Father of Eliezer of Mareshah, the proijhet who censured Jehoshaphat for entering into alliance with Ahaziah (2 Ch 20"). Gray (Ueb. Prop. Names, 62, 232) contends that the correct Heb. text is n;-)^^. So also Kittel in SBOT (cf. Nestle, Eigennamen, 70). J. A. Sblbie.
DODO (so the Ker6 li'i^, Kethibh Dodal ('^f\■^), or possibly Dodi (n^^) ; LXX combines the two, trans- lating, vli)% iraTpadfK<pov avroO vl6s Xovaei). — 1. The father of Eleazar, the second of the three captains who were over ' the thirty ' (2 S 23'). In the parallel list (1 Ch 11") the name is given as Dodo (rti, LXX AwJoi), and also 'the Ahohite' for the erroneous 'son of Ahohi.' In the third list (1 Ch27'') Dodai (•■tn, LXX AoiSeii) is described as general of the second division of the army, but tlie words ' Eleazar theson of ' appear to have been accidentally omitted. Bertheau considers that Dodai is the more correct form, and appeals to the LXX and Jos. {AuSelov) ; he accordingly restores this form in 2 S 23" and 1 Ch 11".
The traditional spelling (Dodo), however, is most probably right : the name Dudu has been found on the Tel elAmama tablets, apparently as that of an Amorite official at the Egyp. court. In the Inscription of Mesha (I. 12) we also find nrn (prob- ably nni-i = Dodo) ; it appears to be the name of some deity. 2. A Bethlehemite, father of Elhanan, one of 'the thirty' (2 S 23", 1 Ch 11» ^^^-l). 3. A man of Issachar, the forefather of Tola the judge (Jg 10'). LXX and Vul^. tr. TrarpaSiXipov airroi ; patrui Abimelech. S. F. Stenninq.
DOE.— RV (Pr 5"), AV 'roe,' is in Heb. n^X-
ya'dlAh, the/emale ibex. See GOAT, under o'^v;-
DOEO {Ml, JK'n, y^1*).— An Edomite, and chief of the herdmen [or better,'runners,'reading with Griitz □•v^^ for D'pn] of king Saul. When David fled to Nob, to Ahinielech (or Aliijah) the priest, D. was there 'detained before the Lord.' Having witnessed the aid given to the fugitive, he reported what he had seen to the king, who summoned Ahiinelceh before him, and accused him of treason. Regardless of his i)rotestations of innocence, Saul ordered him to bo slain. The king's guard shrank from laying hands upon the sacred person of a priest, and the order was then given to D., who not only slew all the priests, but perpetrated a general massacre of all the inhabitants of Nob, destroying even the cattle (1 S 21' '22"-"). D. is mentioned in the title of Ps 52. K. M. BOVD.
DOG (3^'? keleb, icwif, M^dpto)/, canis). — The dog is mentioned in many places in the Bible, and (with the somewhat uncertain exception of the grey- hound, Pr 30^', where the lieu, signifies slender in the toin.i, and is rendered in the marg. horse, RVm tDar-horse) always with contempt. The doy * On this form see Driver oq I 8 22».
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rete.Ted to is doubtless the pariah animal so common in the streets of all villai;es and cities in Bible lands. The original of this degenerate race of do<j» is probably the shepherd dog (Job 30'), which differs from the town animal chiefly in his long fur and bushy tail, and his far greater strength, courage, and ferocity. All of these qualities are the natural result of the hardships of his life. Compelled to go long distances, to guard the flocks from the wolves and other savage beasts, to face the cold winds of \vinter, and its pelting rains or sleet or snow, he needs all the endowments which he possesses over those of his idle, cowardly relative, who spends most of the time, when not in search of his carrion food, in sleeping under the shelter of walls or vaulted passages, or sprawling in the soft mud or dust of the streets.