f the symbole or crede.’ (3) But the word some- times means ‘use’ or ‘employ,’ as Ex 38% ‘All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offer- ing, was twenty and nine talents’ (seya aq;7-52, RV ‘that was used’); Jg 16" ‘If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied’ (npxdp 093 ayyred we, lit. as AVm and RV ‘ where- with no work hath been done’). Cf. Gosson, Schoole of Abuse, p. 72, ‘Iron with muche occupiying is worne too naught, with little handeling gathereth rust’; Hamilton, Catechism, fol. xvi. ‘Thai lufe nocht God with al thair strenth, quhassvir occupyis yair strenth in doing evil deids’; Lv 7* Tind. ‘Neverthelater the fatt of the beest that dyeth alone and the fatt of that which is torne with wilde beestes, maye be occupide in all maner uses’; and Skelton in Skeat’s Specimens, p. 146—
: ‘And of this poore vassall He made a kynge royall, And gave him a realme to rule, That occupyed a showell, A mattoke and a spade.’
(4) And, lastly, trade with, as Ezk 27° ‘all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise’; so 27%, where the Heb. verb is the same (31); RV retains “occupy,” but with ‘exchange’ in margin. In 27!6 1.2 another verb (jp}) is_ transla’ ‘occupy’ (‘the
occupied in ἮΝ fairs’); RV has ‘traded.’ In 27?! ‘they occupied with thee in lambs,’ the Heb. expression (77; ‘192 779) is lit. as AVm and RV ‘they were the merchants of thy hand.’ Another example of the same meaning is Lk 19 ‘ And he walled: his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come’ (πραγματεύσασθε; RV ‘Trade ye herewith’). The tr. ‘occupy’ here is from Cranmer, the Bishops, and the Rheims; Wyc. has 1382 ‘marchaundise ye,’ 1388 ‘chaffare ye’; Tind. ‘by and sell,’ followed by Geneva, his meaning of ‘occupy’ may be
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illustrated from Coverdale, as Is 23'718 ‘The Lorde shall viset the citie of Tirus, and it shal come agayne to hyr Marchaundyse, and shal occupie with al the Kingdomes that be in the worlde. But all his occupienge and wynnynge shalbe halowed unto the Lorde’; or from the Rhemish Version, as Mt 25% ‘And he that had received the five talents, went his way, and occupied with the same, and gained other five.’ J. HASTINGS.
OCCURRENT.—In 1 K δ’ (eb. 18) the Heb. word yi pega’ (which is elsewhere found only in Ec 9" and is rendered in EV ‘chance’) is translated in AV ‘occurrent’; ‘there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent’ (37 y35). RV retains ‘occurrent,’ but Amer. RV prefers ‘occurrence,’ which is the modern form. The LXX tr. is ἁμάρτημα πονηρόν, the Vulg. (supposed to have suggested the Eng.) occursus malus; Wyclif (1382) has ‘yvel agencomynge,’ 1388 ‘yvel asailyng’; Cov. ‘evell hynderaunce’; Gen. ‘evil to resiste,’ followed by the Bishops; Don. ‘il rencounter. The form ‘occurrent’ was used both as an adj and as a subst. As an adj. we find it in Hooker, Ecel. Pol. v. 78, ‘After gifts of education there follow general abilities to work things above nature, grace to cure men of bodily diseases, supplies against occurrent defects and impedi- ments.’ As a subst. it is found in Shaks. (Hamlet, y. ii. 341), who also twice uses ‘occurrence’ (7. Night, v. i. 264, Henry V. Vv. Prol. 40). Cf. also Chapman, Widow's Tears, iii. 1, ‘These are strange occurrents, brother, but pretty and pathetical’ ; Bacon, Henry VII. (Pitt Press ed. p. 68), ‘He paid the king large tribute of his gratitude in iligent advertisement of the occurrents of Italy.’ Beaumont and Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, i. 1—
‘My five years’ absence hath kept me stranger So much to all the occurrents of country.’ ὦ. HASTINGS.
OCHIELUS (B ᾿Οχίηλος, A ’Ofindos, AV Ochiel),
1 Es 1°=Jeiel, 2 Ch 35°.
OCHRAN (11:1, 'Expdv).—Father of Pagiel, an Asherite prince, Nu 1!% 2*7 773. τὶ 10%,
OCIDELUS (A Ὠκείδηλος, B 'Nxaf\ndos), 1 Es 9%, a corruption of Jozabad in Ezr 10”,
OCINA (’Oxewd) occurs only in Jth 2%, where it is grouped with Sidon, Tyre, etc., as terror-stricken at the approach of Holoternes. The names of the cities are given in order, proceeding southward along the sea-coast. First come Sidon and Tyre, then follow Sur,* Ocina, and Jemnaan. Sur has been taken for Tyre (Smith’s DB, art. ‘Ocina’), and this (Str) is the modern name of that town. But the name of Tyre is already given in its usual form, and it is more natural to suppose that Sur refers to another place. Tremelius and Junius speak of it as locus maritimus inter Tyrum et
tolemaida, and identify it with Sandalium (Scan- dalium), the modern Jskandertina. A short distance south of /skandertina lie the very ancient ruins of Umm el-Amiad, the older name of which seems to have been 7urdn (Baedeker, Pal.* 272). This is a more probable identification, and, if accepted, we pass naturally to Acre as the next important city to the south. The mediwval name Acon (see art. ACCO) may very well represent the older Ocina, which Ptolemais had failed altogether to supplant. If Jemnaan is found at Jabneel (which see) the distance from Acco is very great; this, however, does not tell against the identification suggested.