4. Uij the luind of- ' by,' or ' by means of ' : E.\ 4" ' And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send (1:2) ; Lv 8^" 'So Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Mo.ses.'
5. Bi/ strength of hand : \i\ 13'"'"', as 13" 'By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt.' See ' With a strong liand ' below.
6. To come to one'x hand : Gn 32'^ ' And he lodged there that same night ; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother' (iT3 N;n-p npn, LXX rai (Xa^ev lix ((pepev d^pa, Vulg. ' separavit do his qua; habebat,' IIV ' took of tiiat which he had with him ') ; Jg 20'" ' And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them witii the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast. and nil that came to hand' (N>cjn-Sj ly, AVm 'all that was found,' UV ' all that they found ') ; 1 S 25" 'Give, I pray thee, whatsoever conieth to thine hand unto thy servants ' (^"i; Nvqi.? i^'t; nx, LXX S iav eOpij ij x^^P <fov).
1. Fall in hand with: Only in Preface to AV, 'For not long after Christ, Aqnila fell in hand with a new Translation, and after him Theod<ili(jn, and after him Symmnchus' ; and 'Neither, to be short, were we the first that fell in hand with translating the Scripture into Kngli.-h.' The meaning is 'set about,' 'undertake,' mod. 'take in hand to.'
8. From, one's hand= from oneself : Gn 4" ' .\nd now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand'; 38* cf. Ps 71* Wye. 'My God, tac me awey fro the bond of the synnere ; and fro the bond of the doere agen the lawe.'
9. In htnd. This ptirase has different mean- ings: (1) 'In progress, 1 S 20"' 'when the busi- ness was in hand (ny;' in C17, AVm ' in the ilay of the business,' LXX iy rp niJiipit rj /pyatlfiVt Vulg.
' On the LXX text of this itasiiai,'e see ConvlH>are In JQR,
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' in die quando operari licet '). Cf. Shaks. Venus, 912—
• Full of respects, yet nought at all resi>ectinjr, In hand with all things, nought at all effecting.*
(2) In one's hand=' with one,' or 'in one's pos- session,' Gn 35* ' And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand ' ; 39" ' And his master saw . . . that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand'; Dt 24' 'let him write a bill of divorcement and give in her hand ' ; 1 S 17^^^ ' And David left his carriage [RV ' baggage '] in the hand (i^Vy) of the keeper of the carriage ' ; Is 44-'" ' Is there not a lie in my right hand';'; 1 Ch 29" 'In thine hand is power and niiglit ; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.' Sometimes, as in the last passage, the meaning is rather ' in one's power,' or ' under one's control.' So Gn 24'" ' all the goods of his master were in his hand ' ; Job 12'" ' In whose hand is the soul of every living thing ' ; Jer 20" ' As for me, behold I am in your hand : do with me as seenieth good and meet unto you ' ; Sir 15'* ' He himself made man from the begin- ning, and left him in the hand of his counsel (^k xci/)i Sia^ovKlov airroS, RV ' in the hand of his own counsel').
(3) To ' put one's life in one's hand ' is to expose it, risk it, in making a venture. The phrase occurs in Jg 12^ 1 S 19' 28=', Job 13'*; and in a slightly dillerent form in Ps 119'™ 'My soul is coiitinuallv in my hand ' ; cf. also Ad. Est 14* ' For my danger is in mine hand ' (fln xlySwis fiov if xftpi fiov).
(4) In Gal 3" occurs the expression 'in the hand of,' meaning 'by means of: 'the law . . . was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator,' Gr. ^j- x^'P'i »■ trequent tr" in LXX of Heb. n:;. Both the Gr. and the Eng. have accepted the Heb. phrase, regardless of their ow^l proper idiom, and that not only in the use of ' hand,' but also by using ' in '. RV prefers ' by tlie hand of.'
10. Laijhnvdon. See LAY.
11. Of one's hand— ' from one,' as Gn 21* ' these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of mj" hand ' ; 39' ' And Joseph was brought down to Eg'ypt ; and Potiphar . . . bought him of the hands [ed. KUl 'hand,' so RV] of the Ishmaelites' ; or = simply ' m^,' as Gn SI*'" ' It is in the power of my hand [ = it is in my power] to do you hurt.'