and means ‘dance.’ St. Jerome’s rendering chorus
(Lag. Onom. Sac.* p. 73) should be interpreted in chia way, and not in its musical acceptation. The intimate connexion of the temple ritual with the names Ethan and Heman permits a conjecture that the expression ‘sons of dance’ was originally a note applying to Ethan and Heman. Dancing was part of the worship of J”, and Sind is twice used in the Bk. of Psalms in a ritual sense (149 1504), Such a note when inserted in the text might readily be given its present position. W. B. STEVENSON.
MAHSEIAH (-rpnp). —A priest, grandfather of Baruch and Seraiah, Jer 32" 51° (AV Maaseiah). He is called in Bar 11 Maaseas (Maacalas),
MAIANNAS (Μαιάννας, AV Maianeas), 1 Es 9* =MAASEIAH, Neh 87.
MAID, MAIDEN.—Several words, easily distin- guished in Heb. and Gr., are rendered ‘maid’ or ‘maiden’ in AV. 4. my} na'‘drdh, a girl, is tré ‘maid’ in 2 K 554, Est 27-12 44 (all ‘maiden’ in RV), Am 27; and ‘ maiden’ in Ex 25, Ru 28. 3. 33 32, 1S 94, Est 2" 8: 9.15 416 Job 415, Pr 9% 2777 3115, all retained in RV. 2. noby ‘almdh, a young woman (see under IMMANUEL, vol. ii. p. 454), is rendered ‘maid’ in Ex 28, Pr 30% 8, abna bethilah, a virgin, is tr’ ‘maid’ in Ex 22° (RV ‘virgin’), Job 31}, Jer 2% 51%, La δ᾽} (RV ‘ maiden’), Ezk 96 (RV ‘maiden’), Zec 97; and ‘maiden’ in Jg 19%, 2Ch 36”, Ps 788 148", Ezk 44% (RV ‘virgin’). Also ovina ad ΠΝ. 85 is tr’ in AV ‘I found her not a maid’ in Dt 2217, 4, nox ’dmah, a maidservant, is often rendered ‘handmaid’ or ‘maidservant,’ but also simply ‘maid’ in Gn 308, Ex 2° (RV ‘hand- maid’) 21° %, Ly 25°, Ezr 2° (RV ‘ maidservant’), Job 19°, Nah 2? (RV ‘handmaid’). δ. aAneY shiphhah, a maidservant, female attendant, is tr@ “maid’ in Gn 16% 5 δ. 8. 8 9924. 29 307: 9 10. 23, Is 247;
MAKE 215
and ‘maiden’ in Gn 3018, Ps 123%, Ec 27: RV has ‘handmaid’ for ‘ maid’ in all the passages except Is 24°, but retains ‘maiden’ except in Gn 30” (‘handmaid’).
Notice also the obsol. expression ‘maid child’ for 732} in Ly 12°, retained in RV. It comes from Tindale, who has the similar rendering in Ex 118 ‘When ye mydwive the women of the Ebrues and se in the byrth tyme thatit is a boye, kyll it. But if it be a mayde, let it lyve.’
In Apocr. and NT we find the following words translated maid: 1, κοράσιον, a girl, To 633, Sus5-29) Mt 9%-25 (both ‘damsel’ in RY). 2. παιδίσκη, ἃ young woman, a maidservant, To 37 82-13 (RV all maidservant’), Jth 10° (RV ‘hand- maid’), Sir 4153, Sus %, Mk 14% 6 Lk 22° ; παιδίσκη is also rendered ‘maiden’ in Lk 12 (RV ‘maid- servant’). 3. mais, a young person, usually male, also used for a servant or attendant, is tr4 ‘ maid’ in Lk 8% (RV ‘maiden’), and ‘maiden’ in 8%. 4, παρθένος, ἃ virgin, is tr? ‘maid’ in Jth 9* (RV ‘virgin’). 5, ἅβρα, a maidservant, is tr? ‘maid’ in Jth 107° 13° 16%, Ad. Est 157. 6. δούλη, a female slave, is rendered ‘maid’ in Jth 1919 (RV *servant’).
We thus see that AV, according to its principle, varies the words indefinitely and almost indiffer- ently. RV lays down the principle that as far as possible the same word in Heb. or Gr. should be rendered by the same word in Eng., but the onl case in which a serious effort is made to carry it out is in the rendering of shiphidh. Except in three passages, that word is rendered ‘ handmaid.’ One of the exceptions is Is 24°, where the assonance between ‘ mistress’ and ‘ maid’ is allowed to stand ; the other two are particularly unfortunate, since there is little reason for departing from the rule of uniformity in Ps 123? and less in Ec 2’, and especially since the word ‘maiden,’ which is re- tained, is no longer used for a servant. Even Shakespeare, who uses ‘maiden’ freely in the sense of ‘ virgin,’ never has it in the sense of ‘servant.’
J. HASTINGS, MAIL.—See ArMOoUR. MAINSAIL.—See Surps AND Boats.
MAKAZ (72>, Mayxds Luc.; Maxuds A and Maxeuds B are probaly, erroneous forms due to confusion with the more familiar name Michmash, which the Sept. transliterates by Mayuds or Maxuds).— One of five places (MT four) which compose, or iden- tify, the second of the 12 Solomonic prefectures (1 Καὶ 4°). The probable identifications of (Shaal- bim) Bethshemesh and Elon (= Aijalon) show that it was situated on the western slopes of Judah, but the exact site remains uncertain. Two of the towns in the same group are elsewhere assigned to the territory of Dan. The spellings Maxés (Euseb. in Lag. Onom.*) and Macces or Maces (Vulg., Jerome) may be compared with Jerome’s deriva- tion (de fine) from 72 a boundary (Lag. Onom. Sac. p. 73). W. B. STEVENSON,
MAKE.—The verb to ‘make’ is used in AV both transitively and intransitively, and is so retained in RV, though the intrans. use is now obsolete. In both forms it has some constructions and mean- ings that need attention.
1. With the meaning of to cause it is followed by the infin., sometimes with and sometimes with- out to: * 2 Ch 7%‘ This house, which I have sancti- fied for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations’ (RV ‘I will make it a proverb’); S* ‘them did Solomon make to pay tribute’; Jer 34" ‘I will make you to be removed into all the king.