uarter whence evil or invasion arises (Jer 1 45 6! 13” 15}? [prob.], 25° 46%-* 472; and against Babylon, 50% “ 51: comp. Is 145}, of the invading Assyrians; and Ezk 26’, where Neb. is brought ‘from the north’); Jer 3'8 (cf. 31:3), 16% 23° 318, Zec 2°, just quoted, show also that it was regarded as the region in which Israel was exiled, and from which it was to be restored. In Zeph 2% the ‘north’ includes Assyria and Nineveh (actually N.E. of Judah). In point of fact, Babylon is almost in the same latitude as Samaria; but Assyr. and Bab. invaders usually entered Palestine from the north ; and hence even the latter were pictured as having their home in that direction. That the foes of Babylon should themselves also come from the N. (Jer 50% * 41 51) was naturally no difficulty ; the expression was a wide and vague one. In Ezk 385.}5 395 the hosts of ‘Gog’ (whom the prophet imagines as invading in vast numbers the restored Israel) are brought up from ‘the recesses of the north’ (ΔῸΣ ‘op; the same expression in Is 14", Ps 48°) ; the thought may have been suggested to Ezekiel by the irruptions of Scythian hordes into Asia, which had recently taken place (Herod. i. 103 ff.).
In Is 41* (spoken in Babylonia), Cyrus is spoken of as ‘stirred up from the north’; in Dn 11®7*™ 12. 15. 40. 44 the ‘king of the north’ denotes the king for the time being of Antioch (opp. to the ‘ king of the South,’ te. of Egypt). S. R. Driver.
NOSE, NOSTRILS (nx ‘aph, Arab. anf; orn} Job 41” [Heb."*) only ; 3, tré in AV of Job 39% ‘nostrils,’ is given correctly in RV ‘snorting ’).— The expansion of the nostrils and the forcible
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ejection of the breath expressed energy and indignation, Job 39”, Ps 18". On the other hand,
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RV ‘in no wise’); Jn 12% ‘Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing?’ (οὐκ dpedetre οὐδέν) ; 1 Ti 44 ‘ For
the residence of the breath in so small a space | every creature of God is good and nothing to be
taught the insignificance of human life, Is 2”.
In Ezk 8” allusion is made to the custom in sacrificial Baal-worship of putting the branch to the nose. A somewhat similar practice prevails at Jewish ceremonies of circumcision, where per- haps, on account of the natural repugnance to pain and the sight of blood, those present are supplied with small slips of aromatic myrtle. See, further, art. BRANCH.
In Ly 21" one of the deformities from which the priest must be free was the blemish translated ‘ flat-nosed’ (099). So EVV following LXX (xodo-
bp(pe)v), Pesh., Vulg., and Jewish commentators.
river- White (‘ Leviticus’ in PB) tr. ‘mutilated in the face,’ and remark ‘the word is more prob- ably a general term, the cognate verb in Arabic meaning to pierce or perforate, especially to mutilate (by ditting) the nose, ear, or lip.’ G. M. MACKIE. NOSE-JEWEL.—See AMULET, JEWEL.
NOTABLE, — This word occurs with various meanings in AV, some of which are out of use. 1. Conspicuous, prominent, Dn 8° ‘the goat had a notable horn between his eyes’ (nig pp, Jit., as AVm, ‘a horn of sight’ or ‘of conspicnousness.’ So 8°, where, as alae in v.”, it is called ‘the great horn.’
2. Clearly seen, illustrious (ἐπιφανής), used of 8 temple in 2 Mac 14", and of the Day of the Lord in Ac 2” (following the reading of the Sept.).
3. Excelling (εὐπρεπής), 2 Mac 3% ‘young men
. . notable in strength.’
4. Notorious (ἐπίσημος), Mt 27% ‘And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.’ Cf. Shaks. All’s Well, m1. vi. 10, ‘A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar’; and South, Sermons, ii. Ser. 1, ‘A notable leading sinner indeed, to wit, the rebel.’ In Ro 167 the Gr. word is used in the sense of important, of mark, but is trans- lated ‘of note’in EV. The adj. ‘notable’ might τς been used, as in Rom. of Partenay, line
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‘Unto this feste cam barons full many, Which notable were and ryght ful honeste.’
5. Unmistakable, well-known (yworbs), Ac 419 ‘a notable miracle.’ Cf. Chaucer, Prioresses Tale, 233—
“Ὁ yonge Hugh of P With Gareesd tewan, on ts acaetabiere For it nis but a litel whyle ago.’
6. Noble, highminded (yevvaios), 2 Mac 65 ‘a notable example to such as be young to die willingly.’
In its τς occurrence notably has the same meaning as that last given for ‘notable,’ viz. nobly, 2 Mac 14%! ‘he was notably erence by Judas’ ogg Of (γενναίως, RV ‘ brave y, RVm ‘nobly’).
f. Berners, Froissart, ch. οἱ. ‘Wherefore they sayd, they wold send and defye the Frenche kyng notably : and so they did.’ The meaning is nearly the same in Shaks. Mids. Night’s Dream, V. i. 368 (his pan example of the word)—‘a fine tragedy + . . and very notably discharged.’
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_ NOTHING is sometimes used adverbially in AV, like ‘no-way,’ ‘naught,’ and ‘not’ (=‘no whit’). We should now say ‘as nothing’ or ‘in no respect,’ for ‘nothing’ has completely lost its adverbial force. Thus 1K 10” ‘it [silver] was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon’ (3%; ἐδ); Job 34° ‘It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God’ (137735: ἐδ); 2 Mac 712 ‘he nothing regarded the pains’ (ἐν οὐδενί) ; 97 “he nothing st all ceased from his braggine’ (οὐδαμῶς,