Whoever Hobab was, he was the human a-'ent by whom God led His people through the wilder- ness. This service to Israel was long kept in grateful remembrance (I S 15°).
N. J. D. White.
HOBAH (.^vn).— The place to which, ncc. to Gn 14", Abraliam pursued the defenteil army of Chedorlaomer. It is descril>cd as 'on the" left hand ('-k:;-:, i.e. 'to the north') of Damascus.' It is identitied hj' Wetz-stein (.see Del. Gene.i'is,* p. .Ilil ir. ) with the modern lluba, '20 hours N. of Damascus. Tliis certainly appears to Iw 'etwi.s weit,' n-sSiegfried-.Stade remark ; but the identilica- tion is accepted by Dillmann as more iirobable than one with a lliih<i mentioned by von Imilo nliout a mile N. of Damascus. J. A. SkI-UIE.
HOBAIAH.— Sec Haiiaiaii.
HOD (TI 'majesty ■).— An Ashcrite, I Ch 7" See Gknealoov.
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HODAVIAH
HOLINESS
HODAVIAH (n;nirt or in;i-i'in ; Kittel prefers to vocalize ^.^^i.^, cf. LXX A 'i!5oi;Ia). — 1, A Miiniissite cliin, 1 Cli a-*. 2. The name of a Iteiijainite family, 1 Ch 9'. 3. A Levitical family name, l'2zr 2", called in Neh "■" Hodevah (which see). 4. A descendant of David, 1 Cli S'-'* (>n;rtn ; AV, following Ketkibh \n;\-<\n, Hodaiah).
HODESH (ay\ 'new moon'). — One of the wives of t^haharaim, a Benjamite, 1 Ch 8". See GENE- ALOGY.
HODEYAH {Ketkibh .-n-i'i.i, j^erg, followed by RVm, r;-ii-i Hodeiah). — A Levitical familj' name, Neh 7**, called in Ezr 2" Hodaviah (which see).
HODIAH (nnVi 'my "majesty" is J"').—!. A man of .ludah, 1 Ch 4". AV WTongly takes it as a woman's name (see Genealogy, IV. 55). 2. A Levite, Neh 8' 9° 10'°. 3. Another Levite, Neh 10". 4. One of those who sealed the covenant, Neh lO".
HOGLAH (.n'-jri 'partridge'). — Daughter of Zelophehad, Nu 26'= 27' 36", Jos 17' P.
HOHAM (cnin), king of Hebron, formed an alliance with other four kings against Gibeon, but was defeated by Joshua at Beth-horon, and put to death along with his allies at Makkedah(Jos lO'"-). According to Hommel (AET •2-J.'in.), Hoham is identical with the Mina^an name Hnuhnm (begin- ning with the guttural aspirate) ; but this combina- tion is extremely precarious.
HOISE. — This is the older and more correct form of hoist, to which the t has probably been added from its presence in the past ptcp. It occurs Ac 27'"' ' they . . . hoised up the mainsail to the wind.' Cf. Hall, Works, ii. 37, ' Who can pitty the shipwracke of those marriners, which will needes put forth, and hoise saUes in a tem- pest?' RV gives 'hoisting up the foresail,' and introduces ' hoist ' also in 27" for the simple vb. (aXfyo) of which the compound (^ira/pco) is here used. Both ' hoist ' and ' hoised ' are found as par- ticiples. Thus Hall, Works, ii. 40, ' Mee thinkes, I see Christ hoysed upon the highest battlements of the Temple ; and Shaks. Hamlet, III. iv. 27 — ' Hoist with his own petard.' J. HASTINGS.
HOLD. — As a subst. ' hold ' occurs frequently in AV for a protected place, mod. 'stronghold,' for which the Heb. is generally tiiso or niiso. In Jg 9"- •" the word so tr^ is n-fi, which occurs elsewhere only in 1 S 13°, and of w hich the meaning is so doubtful that Moore declines to give it any rendering. Some commentators reckon it a secret chamber. RV retains ' holds ' in Jg and gives that tr" in 1 S, with ' holes ' in marg. See Moore on Jg 9''^ The ' hold ' of Ac 4' is a general word, lit. 'keeping' (r^p^iris). The same word with the ailj. bria6<no$ is tr^ in 5" ' public prison.' RV gives 'ward' and 'public ward.' In Rev 18' is found another general word (^i^Xax^), also originally an abstract term, 'guarding,' then a 'guard-room.' It occurs twice in this verse, being rendered in AV first ' hold ' and then ' cage ' (RV ' hold '). Perhaps ' dungeon ' would be the best \\ord here. For the En^. word it will be enough to quote Bunyan, Holy War, p. 18, '^Vllerefore into the castle he goes : it was that which Shaddai built in Mansoul for his own delight and pleasure ; this now was oecome a Den and Hold for the Giant Diabolus.'
The verb ' to hold ' is used in some obsolete or archaic senses : 1. To reckon, account, in ' hold guiltless ' Ex 20', Dt 5", 1 K 2», or ' not guUty ' Zee 11'; hold innocent' Job 9-^; and 'hold con-