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creatures, and, when he released them, ran to meet them, and evinced the Spach satisfaction as she led them to the rest of her brood, and got them all out of sight as soon as possible. Red-legged partridges are hunted by means of tame men (Sir 11%), which call the wild birds. The sportsman shoots them from an ambush. Some- times wheat is scattered near the decoy, and large numbers of wild birds settle down to eat it, and numbers are killed by a single shot. This, however, is considered quite unsportsmanlike by the better class of natives. The partridge is so hunted by falconry. The red-legged species is easily tamed, and becomes very affectionate and confiding towards his owner. G. E. Post.
PARUAH (n75; B Φουασούδ, A Φαρρού, Luc. Bapoaot’x).—Father or clan of Jehoshaphat, Solo- mon’s prefect in Issachar. Issachar stands tenth (in the LXX twelfth) among the prefectures. In Galilee these coincide with tribal districts. Out- side Galilee only Benjamin is a prefecture in itself.
PARVAIM (072, LXX apovdin).—Only in 2 Ch 3°, where Solomon, in the ornamentation of his temple, is said to have used ‘gold of Parvaim.’ Gesenius (Zhesaurus, p. 1125) suggests after Wil- ford its derivation from Sanscrit pérva, ‘ eastern,’ i.e. eastern regions. Sprenger (Alte Geog. Arabiens, p. 54f.) found a Farwa in Yemen. Glaser (Skizze d. Ges. u. Geog. Arabiens, ii. p. 347) identifieg Parvaim with Sak el-Farwaim, which lies about one day from Dharigja, and not far west of the two Abdns, between which flows the Wady er-Rumma.
Ira M. PRICE.
PASACH (τὺ; B Βαισηχί, A Deonxt).—An Asher-
ite, 1 Ch 73,
PAS-DAMMIM (p91 05; B Φασοδομή, A Φασοδομὶ, Lue. [ἐν] τοῖς Sefpdv).—The name of a place in the west of Judah, between Socoh and kah, as
iven in 1 Ch 11%, It is a el a variant of
PHES-DAMMIM (wh. see), the place where David slew Goliath (1 8 17).
PASEAH (nos). —1. A descendant of Judah, 1Ch 4” (B Βεσσῆε, A Φεσσή). 2 The father of Joiada, who repaired the old gate, Neh 35 (Φασέκ). It is pols: however, that ‘ Paseah’ here has not an individual but a family sense, as in—3. The eponym of a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerub- babel, Ezr 2° (B Φισόν, A baoh)=Neh 75 (B Φεσή, A Φεσσή, § dah). The name appears in 1 Es 5% as Phinoe.
in particulars belongeth to the first author of the story’ (ἐν τοῖς κατὰ pépos); 11” ‘Of the particulars . .. tocommune with you’ (ὑπὲρ τούτων κατὰ μέρος, RV ‘in detail’), Cf. Shaks. J Henry JV. τι. iv. 414—‘ Examine me ΠΡΟΣ the particulars of my life’ ; and JJ Henry IV. tv. ii. 36—
*I sent your grace
The parcels and particulars of our grief.’
‘Particularly’ has the same meaning as ‘in par- ticular.’ It occurs in Ac 21'* ‘He declared par- ticularly what things God had wrought’ (ἐξηγεῖτο καθ᾽ ὃν ἕκαστον ὧν ἐποίησεν ὁ θεός ; RV ‘He rehearsed one by one the things’); and He 95 ‘Of which we cannot now speak particularly’ (xara μέρος, RV ‘ severally ’). Be ion; Hist. 115—‘ This present Writ is to make answer particularlie to everie Article.’
The adj. is used in the first Prol. to Sirach, ‘It {Sirach] containeth . . . certain particular ancient godly stories of men that pleased God’ (μέρικάς Twas παλαιὰς θεοφιλεῖς ἱστορίας), where the meaning is evidently ‘special’ (Vul . peculiares), as in Bunyan, Holy War, p. 142, (Phen did Emmanuel address himself in a particular Speech to the Towns- men themselves.’ J. HASTINGS.
PARTRIDGE (xp, k6ré’).—This word occurs but twice in OT, 1S 26” (where the LXX tr. it νυκτι- κόραξ) and Jer 17" (πέρδιξ) In both the Vulg. gives perdiz. That kore’ is not an owl (νυκτικόραξ) is evident from the context of the passages in which this Gr. word is tr’ ‘owl.’ On the other hand, Caccabis chukar, C. R. Gray, the red-legged partridge, or Ammoperdix Heyi, Temm., the sand partridge, would suit exactly the comparison which David makes between himself and the kéré’. As regards the passage in Jeremiah, the best ex- planation is to view the act of the partridge there alluded to as founded upon a popular belief as to its habits rather than upon strict fact. Bochart quotes such a belief (ii. 85) from Damir, who says that ‘it is of the nature of the partridge to come to the nests of its congeners, and take their eggs and incubate them; but when the chicks come to fly they return to the mothers which laid their eggs.’ There are numerous instances in the Bible of the adoption of popular beliefs and their use to point a moral. Such have been adduced in articles on the ostrich, goat, owl, night-monster, leviathan, satyr, horseleech, ete. ‘he proper name ‘En- hakkore’ (Jg 15") means ‘spring of the partridge.’
Caccabis chukar is a gallinaceous als the male with a drab coat, beautifully mottled with cres- centic markings of white and black beneath, red legs, and a white throat. Ammoperdix Heyi is a little smaller. . The plumage of the male is sandy buff, washed with dark grey on the crown and cheeks, pencilled and barred beneath with brown, with a strip of white behind the eyes, an orange beak, and olive-yellow legs. Both species inhabit the most retired situations they can find, prefer- ring rocky hillsides clothed with shrubs and tufted grass. C. chukar is much more widely disseminated than its relative. It is found most abundantly in the middle and upper regions of Lebanon and Antilebanon. It is also very abundant in the mountains of the 5 ay desert, often many miles away from water. The Arabs of that region say that it doesnot drink. Thesand partridge is found only in the Dead Sea and Jordan Valleys. Both species, but especially the latter, will run a con- siderable distance rather than take to wing. A hen with chicks will almost allow herself to be caught in her anxiety to lead them out of danger. The present writer once dismounted and caught two chicks out of a brood which the hen was luring away. She waited near by until he had satished his curiosity by examining the fluffy