The Rabbinical conception of the separation between the two parts of Hades was a thin w- ,1, a mere hand- or nnger-breadtb (Weber, Lehre i/ts Talmud, 326£.). J. Hastings.
GUN! ('jij).— 1. The eponym of a Naphtalite family, Gn 46«=1 Ch 7'» (cf. ^u 26" where the genlilic Gunites occurs). 2. A Gadite chief, 1 Ch 5'°. See GENl-:Al.oaY. According to Klosterm.-xnM, Driver, and Budde, we should also read 'the Gunite' (•)un) for ' Jonathan ' in 2 S '23^- ; and for ' the Gizon- ite' in 1 Ch 11". Luc. has in the first passage 6 rowi'i and in the seco' d 6 Vovfl.
GUR (TJ 'dwelling,' 'sojourninjj'). — An 'ascent' by Ibleam and Beth-h.iggan, 2 K 9". Possibly, these two are the modern Yebla and Beit Jenn. But see Ibleam.
GUR-BAAL (Syj-m, 'dwelling of Baal*).— An unknown locality named in 2 Cli 26'. The LXX has ol KaroLKOunTes i-rri r^s ll^rpas, as though I'etra were intended, which is possible, as the inhabitants were Arabs.
GUTTER (i^JV; RV ' watercourse ').— The mean- ing of this word, and indeed of the whole passage (2 S 5"), is very uncertain (cf. Driver, in loc), hiit the rendering of the RV is supported by its use in later Hebrew. The same word occurs in the plural at Ps 42', where it is usually rendered ' cataracts.'
J. F. Stennino.
* The OxJ. Eng. Diet, has found only two occurrences before 1611, Fitz-gefTray. Str F. Drake (ISM), 31, • Karth-gapini: Chasma's, that mishap aljoades'; and llolland, Pliny, i. 17, ' The flnuament also is seene to chinke and open, and thil they name Chaama.'
t'For the various reading of the Vulg. see Plummei , in U»
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HA.— The Heb. interjection "?r? he't>i is once tr* Mia, ha," Job :j9'^ 'He saith among the trumpets, Ha, lia,' of the neighing of the war-lioi-se. The Kevisers have changed tliis into ' Alia ! ' ami liave been taken to task for giving the horee a human cry. Tlie older versions weie still more ' human,' a.s Wye. (1382) ' Fy ! ' or (1:588) ' Joie ! ' Cov. 'tush,' Don. • Vah.' ' Ila, ha ' comes from the Gen. Bible. See All, AHA.
HAAHASHTARI IC^.T'-'^^p,, perhap.s ' royal,' from Pers. khxhCttra, 'lordsliip' or 'realm'; cf. the similar adjective in Est 8'"- "). — A descendant of Judah, 1 Ch. 4«. See GENEALOGY.
HABAIAH (^J^'l '.I" hath hidden').— The head of a piirsily family which returneil with Zerubbabel. On ai'i^ount of their l)i-ing unable to trace their genval igy they were not allowed to serve (ICzr 2*'). Ill the parallel i);i.s.-<age Xeh T""^ the name is written Hobaiah ( \J;^ cf. Baer on Kzr 2»»). In 1 Es 5« he is called Obdia. See Genealouv.
H. A. White. •* HABAKKUK (i'^i??q, 'AtifiaKoi^L, 1 /abac uc).*— The eighth of the minor prophets. (If ilabakkuk's personal life nothing is known with certainty, tlinngh it has been inferred, from the fact that he is termed specifically (1' 3') 'the prophet,' that lie held a recognized position as prophet, and, from the expression ' on my stringed instruments ' in :!•', that he was a member of the temple choir, and belonged, consequently, to the tribe of Levi. The first of these inferences is a po.ssible one,t though it does not add nuich to our knowledge of llabakkuk. The second is doubtful, both on account of the uncertainty attaching to tlie pron. mij. which is against the analogy of other similar notices {Vs 4, etc.), and also (m account of the doulit (supposing the pron. to be correct) whether at this time the "singers' were necessarily Levites.
Contexts of H.'s Hook.- Thebook opens with a dialogue between the prophet and his God. He contemplates with dismay the reign of lawlessness and violence in .fudah, — 'The wicked doth com- pass about the righteous ; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted,' — and expo.stulates with God for permitting it to continue unchecked (1-""). l^n J'' answers that the instrument of punishment is near at hand — the Chahheans, that bitter and hasty nation, which march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs, who.se advance is swift and terrible, who.se sole law is their own impi^rious will (v.'"!), who mock at the strongest barriers set to oppose tlieir march, and who, as their victorious arms subjugate one ccmntry after another, impiously deify their own might — ' this his power becometh
• The form of the name 1:* ponillar. It ts. In appearance, an Irreiiiilar rediiplleated form for wbot would more normally bo
rnjpjn of. '?.i"^73^ di';-;n^ lOnDS^ p>-i2-j3nv ft-oni ran lo fiiihriiCf- (On 2*.!" etc. ; of a child, 2 K 4'*), whence .lerome, In Ihe I'ref. to hii* I'nmiiH'ntary on the prophet, explains It as trtpi^ynl/ti, or itmplfxtitio. Fril. Delltzseli (/Vo/f(/. >4 ; AnHi/r. llmuhrnrt^rh. '_*^1 1 derives It ft*f>m the Assyr. htimhaf^ii^K, the name of some trarilen plant. The LXX fonn 'Afi0a«ou^ pre- supposes the pronunciation p^*'3n^ tir PT'^n^ with Ihe double A resolved Into inh (cf. Konl(r. I.thrgeh. II. 47.S), and th© final X' of the ln.-.t svllable assimilated to the llnal tn of the tlrst svlliible (of B<fA^<9ouA).
+ The tllle, ' the pmphel,* Is applied In Ihe superscriptions of tlielr books to none of tlie olher canorilciil prophets except II:»C!.'al and Z^'chariah. It Is. however, verv comimku) In the lilstorli'al books when a prophet Is mentioned lus 'i K 14^^ Itl^l; and It Is also an|>cnded verv often to Jeromlab'B name In certain