ITHIEL (Sx-n-K, prob. ' with me is God ').—!. A Benjamite (Neh 11'). See Genealogy. 2. One of two persons to whom Agur addressed his oracular sayings, the other being Ucal (Pr 30'). Neither LXX nor Vulg. recognizes a proper name here, and most modem commentators point diller- ently, '?:><; Sn "n-x^ Sn -n'NS instead of Sx-n-K^ 'jk'.tn^ S;ni, and tr. 'I have wearied myself, O God, 1 have wearied myself, 0 God, and am consumed.' So RVm. H. A. White.
ITHLAH (n?)!!, B ZfiXaOi, A "IfflXd, AV Jethlah). — A town of Dan, near Aijalon, Jos 19". The site is unknown.
ITHHAH (■T;n:).— A Moabite, one of David's heroes, 1 Ch 11«
ITHNAN (w:).— A city in the Negeb of Judah (.Jos 15^) whose site is uncertain. It is preceded I)y Hazor and followed by Zipli. In the B text of tlie LXX it is combined with the former of these names, ' Kaopiuviir, and in A with the latter 'Idvailip, although Luc. has 'ISriv, Zelifi.
ITHRA (K-in: ' abundance' (?), 'Io96p). — The father of .-Vmasa, and husband of Abigail, David's sister. He is described as an Israelite (2 S 17^), but the Chronicler undoubtedlv has the better reading, 'Jether the Ishmaelite' ( 1 Ch 2" •>v?r-P "'■:: ; I^ 'loSdp, A 'Ueep), which is also given by A at 2 S 17. See Jether.
ITHRAN (pn*).— 1. Eponym of a Horite clan, Gn SO-'^, 1 Ch 1«. 2. An Asherite chief, 1 Ch 1", j)Ossibly identical with Jether of the following verse. " See Genealogy.
ITHREAM (Oynn: 2 S 3» ; B 'Uetpaifi, A EiVffepoiM; 1 ChS''l0apa^,A'ifffpcin,Jethraam),l\\esi\lh son of David by EOLAH (wh. see), born to him at Hebron.
ITHRITE, THE (-!,Tn ; B 4 AWapaios, i 'EBSiyaTos, i 'UO-opfl [N 0 'Iffjipd], 'loOriptl; A 'ESpatos, Ttepirq!, 'leSfpl), a gentilic adjective applied to the descend- ants of a family of Kiriath-jearira (1 Ch 2"), amongst whom were two of David's guard (2 S 23", 1 Ch 1 1" Ira and Gareb). Possibly, however, the text of 2 S 23 and 1 Ch 11 .-hould be jwinted -in:ri='the Jattirite' (so Thenius, Klostt-rmann, Budde), !.(•. an inhabitant of Juttir (mentioned in 1 S ^O-'^ as one of David's haunts) in the hill-countrv of Judah (Jos i:)«21"). The Poshi^ta (2 S 23*^,
iCh ll**''') reads j^Aj ^J ( = of Jattir), of. ita
rendering 2 S 20*. J. F. Stenning.
ITS.— 'Its' does not occnr in AV of Iftll. But in Lv 2.")' ' it ' was use<l where we should now u.se 'its' ('That which groweth of it owi.e acconl of thy harvest, thou slialt not iea|>e'), and in MHV. Ili'i-- was changed into 'its,' and is mi priiitml in all
modem editions. That is the only place in which even in modem edd. tlie word is found.
There is no doubt that about 1611 'its' had befj'un to stni^'gle for recoioiition. But it b not once used by Spenser ; and althougli it is found nine times in Shakespeare's First Folio (five of tliese in Winter's Talc), it is suspected that they were all introduced after his death. Bacon lias it very rarely ; Milton three times in liis poetry (PL i. 254, iv. 813; Ode on iVativiti/, 100) and twice in liis prose. By the time of Milton's death tlie word was established in the lanjjuage.
The third pera. pron. in Anj,'lo-Saxon was —
Mas. Fern. Neut.
Nom. he heo hit
Gen. his hire his
The mas. forms are still in use ; the fem. were both changed early ; the nom. of the neut. lost its h, but retained his as the regular form for the gen. (i.e. possessive) up to the tune we have spoken of. Consequently in AV his is tlie usual poss. case of 'it' as well as of 'he.' Thus Gn 3'° 'it sliall bruise thy liead, and thou slialt bruise his heel ' (Tind. ' And that seed shall tread the on the heed, and thou shalt tread hit on the liele ') ; Lv 23^' ' everj'thing upon his day ' ; Nu 20' ' speak ye unto the rock, and it shall give forth his water ' ; Pr 23^' ' Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it givetli his colour in tlie cup, when it moveth itself (1611 it selfe) aright' ; 2 Es 4'^ 'the sea also liath his place to bear his Hoods'; Wis 19" 'The fire had power in the water, forgetting his own \Trtue ; and the water forgat his own quenching nature.'
But wlisn the poss. of both genders was the same there was always the risk of some confusion. Examples that need attention are, Lv 1" ' And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his (RV ' its ') head, and burn it on the altar ' ; 1 S 6^ ' if it goetli up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh ' (UV 'its own border'); 2S 6" ' And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his place ' (KV ' its ') ; Dn 7' ' I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool : his (mas.) throne was like the fiery flame, and his (neut.) wheels (KV ' the wheels thereof ') as burn- ing tire ') ; Mt O'^ ' But seek ye first tlie kingdom of God, and his righteousness' (i.e. ' God's right- eousness ; but Tind. has ' the kyngdome of heven and the rightwisnes therof,' and he is followed by Gov., Gran., and Gen. ; Rhem. 'the justice of him ' ; Bish. as AV, which is practically the tr" of Wye. ' seke ye first the kyngdom of god and his riglitfulnesse ' ; RV ' But seek ye tirst his kingdom, and his righteousness,' omitting toC eeoi with edd.); 1 Co 15^ 'But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased liira, and to every seed his own body ' (RV ' a body of its own ').