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lama or lammn (so in Mark the Geneva version of 1557, and Rlieims), representing the Heb. (?), even some modem translators read lema, after the Aramaic. Tlie Aram, shebaktani reappears in o-o/So- rrord or aa^aKOaul (so Laclimann in Matt.): — the substitution in the majority of texts of x for « bein" due, perhaps, simply to the ordinary law of GreeK euphony ; or, should the spelling with x be equally ancient, it may indicate a variant pro- nunciation ; for the Heb. p is transliterated by x in other words also (as axe'KSanix Tdf. Treg., paxi Tdf. ; see Dalman, Gram. d. ptdisch-pal. Aramaisch, p. 304). The curious readmgs ^a^Oavel and fa/3o- ipBaird (see Tischendorf, u.s.) show the influence of the Hebrew. This mixture of tongues points, per- haps, to independent traditions ; see the ed. of the Vulg. by Wordsworth and White, esp. the note on Matt. I.e. It seems, however, to afford but equivocal support to the theory that an Aram, version was current in our Lord's day, as the ecclesiastical or popular Hible [cf. Gesenius, Gesrh. d. Hebr. Sprache u. Schri/t., Leip. 1815, p. 73; Do Wette, Einl. ins A.T. § 57 (ed. Sclirader, 18G9, § 68) ; E. Bohl, FoTsch. nach ein. Vullcsbibel zur Zeit Jesu, Wien, 1873]. J. H. Thayer.
ELIAB (3i<''?K 'God is father,' A 'E\irf/3, except in 1 Ch 15", B K> 'EXiaX •«* 'EXtiSrf, 2 Ch l!'* B 'EKidv, Jth 8' B 'E\fid^, K 'Efd^).—i. According to P, son of Helon, and prince of Zebulun, who repre- sented his tribe at the census and on certain other occasions, Nu 1» 2' 7»*- " lO" (P). 2. A Reubenite, father of Dathan and Abiram, Nu IG"--" (.IE), Dt 11'. P gives, as further details, Eliab's father's name, Pallu, and the name of another son, Nemuel (Nu 2(5"-). The fatlier's name, Pallu, probably stood in the original text of Nu 16"". See DUlmann, ad loc, and art. Korah. 3, Eldest son of Jesse, and brother of David. His appearance led Samuel to suppose that he must be the chosen of J" to succeed Saul. With his two brothers, Abinadab and Shammah, he joined Saul's army at the time that Goliath was insulting Israel ; during this time David visited his brother in the camp, and was addressed by E. in insulting terms. E. had a daughter named Abihail (see art.), 1 S 16'''- 17""''', 1 Ch 2", 2 Ch 11": on 1 Ch 27" see Elihu. 4. According to the reading of 1 Ch 6" (Heb. ") the name of an ancestor of Samuel — an Ephraimite. Variants are Eliel, 1 Ch 6" (Heb. '»), and Elihu, 1 S 1'. See El.inu. 3. One of the Gadite warriors who joined David during his wanderings, 1 Cli 12'. These warriors and their doings are described in 1 Ch 12"- '"•. 6. A Levite who, according to the Chronicler, was a musician appointed in the time of David to play the psaltery (Sjj), in the first instance in connexion with the bringing up of the ark to Jerus., 1 Ch IS*"-. Perhaps the name was that of a (post-exilic) family of singers. Cf. refer- ences in Ammiel (No. 3). 7. According to the genealogy in .Ith 8', a remote ancestor of Judith, and consequently a Simeonite, cf. 9'; and with 'Salamicl, the son of Salasadai ' (8'), cf. Nu l«(Heb. and LXX). G. B. Gray.
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ELIADA (v;:^ti 'whom God takes notice of,' 'cares for'; Itt. 'knows.' For tliis nuctnrc of t verb, cf. Gn 18", Ex 2-", Ps 1» RV).— 1. ■EmSai, repeated as BaaXtiMdS B, "EXiJai^ A, BaoXiXdff Luc. A son of David (2 S S'"), called yn;^;? Beeliada (whicli seel in 1 Ch 14'. 2. ('EXinJo^'A, om. B Luc.) Father of Rezon, a Syrian, captain of a marauding band which resisted Solomon's autho- rity (1 K ir^j. 3. CK\tt5i B, 'EXcaSd A Luc.) A warrior of Benjamin (2 Ch 17"). C. F. BURNEY.
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ELIAHBA (i«:n-.;>(( ' God hideth '), one of David's 'Thirty,' 2S23'», IChll*'; •ja'-v^j'r. 'the Shaal- bonite of the Heb. text, should be more correctly pointed •ii^u.VO ' the Shaalabbiunite ' (cf. Jos 19").
J. F. Stennino.
ELIAKIM (D'p;7(< ' whom God sets up ' ; cf. Saba?an '>NDpn, Susp' ; 'EXioxei/i ('EXiaKlii M ti* in Is 22-*)). — 1. Son of Hilkiah, and prefect of the palace in succession to Shebna during the latter or middle portion of Ilezekiah's reign (Is 22-'"'-, 2 K 18""- = Is "Sty"'-). Tliis prefecture, described as n:;rr'7y ' over the household,' seems to have embraced the dis- charge of all the domestic aflfairs of the king, and was a position of the highest rank, being held by Jotham the heir to the throne, after his father king Azariah had been smitten with leprosy (2 K 15'). First mention of the oflice occurs during Solomon's reign (1 K 4'), and it existed, apparently with similar powers and dignity, in the kingdom of Israel as in Judah (1 K Iff* 1S^ 2 K 10»). Delitzsch and others compare the Merovingian office of major domus (maire du palais). The prefect appears to have also been known as [Db sO/cen, rendered by RV ' treasurer,' m ' steward.' This title is connected by Cheyne {Is. ii. 153) with the Assyr. saknu 'a high officer,' from sakin ' to set up, place' ; but the fact tliat the fem. nj:b ^okineth is used of Abishag in 1 K 1- seems rather to connect the word with the verb pj^n Aw/jjn, 'deal familiarly with,' from which was derived the general meaning of caretaker or attendant (see the writer's note on 1 K 1'). The title occurs in a Plioen. inscription from Lebanon belonging probably to the 8th cent. B.C. : ' Soken of the New City, servant of Hiram, king of the Sidonians' {CIS I. i. 5).