• Comill. following the LX.\, deletes the Iwit clause o( the MT, in which D'li<; occurs a third lime. I Sm Driver on Am 5W.
1 S 30'- '» =• ; .v. Gad 2 S 24» ; N. Gerar Gn 20" ; N. Zered Nu 21'-, Dt 2'^- '^ (LXX in last tiv« passages (pipayS.) ; N. Jabbok Gn 32-'S Dt 2" 3", Jos 12= ; A'. Kidron 2 S 15-^, 1 K 2^ 15'» 18*
2 K 23"- '», 2 Cli 15"> 29'« 30'^ Jer 31 (38)-'° (yd^oX) ; X Kanah Jos 16» 17' (ipapayi) ; N. Sorek Jg 16* (B ' &.\<ruip-qxt ^ ° X"Mi/5po(u)5 Swprjx) ; N. ha- Arahah Am 6'* [dub. ; Wellh. would read N. Mizraim ; LXX 6 xf'M''/'po(i')s rilv SvafiQv^. The familiar river (RV 'brook' except in Jth 1' 'river') of Egypt is N. Mizraim (modem Wdthj el- Artsh). See Egypt (River of). Snj is once, Job 28'', used of a miner's shaft (cf. the use of cin; in v.'°).
i. 5. ^31', by-form SjiN or Sjn (root hz- ' flow ' [?]). The former occurs only in Jer 17' ' he shall be as a tree jplanted by the waters (c'5, MaT-a), and that spi-eadeth out his roots by the river' (V;)-'?!', iirl iK/idda, 'to moisture'); the latter only in Dn S--'-' (Theod. transliterates t6 i)i)/id\, LXX has ^ vvXti).
6. P?ij, from a root pen ' to hold,' is a poetical word, whose nearest English equivalent is perhaps ' channel,' the original idea being that of holding or conlining waters.* It thus denotes, primarily at least, tlie stream-bed rather than the stream. Its occurrences are : Ps 18'""'i (where for ' channels of waters,' c:5 '?■?!<, we should read, as in 2 S 22'*, 'channels (i.e. bed)of thesea,' d; n. TheLXXhasin the Latter acp^aas SaXdaatj!, and in the former irriyal iSdruip) 41' (AV and RV ' brooks,' LXX Tnjyal) \26* (AV and RV 'streams,' LXX xf'M<ippoi'5)> Jl l-' 4 (3) '8 (in both AV ' rivers,' RV ' brooks,' LXX atpiaets), Ca 5'* (AV 'rivers,' RV 'brooks,' LXX TrXrjpw/iaTa), Job 6" (D'Sn^ 'n ' channel of torrents,' LXX xf'MpP'"'')! Is 8' (AV and R\' 'channels,' LXX <pdf>ayi), Ezk 6» 31'- 32" 31'» 35" Sfl-'- « (AV in all the Ezekiel passages has 'rivers,' RV 'water- courses,' LXX <t>dpayi in all except 31'-, where it has vediov).
7. ''^~, from root [ihs] 'divide,' cf. the proper name Pki.eg and the explanation of it given by J in Gn lu-^. This word means an artificial ivater- course, a canal formed for the purpose of irrigation. Its occurrences are : Job 29" ('rivers of oil,' LXX simply 7iiXa) ; Ps P (AV 'rivers,' RV 'streams,' L.XX 5i^Jo5oi) 46' ('there is a river [17] whose streams [o'jS?, LXX opfirniaTa, arms or branches led from the river through the surrounding land] make glad the city of our God') 65'" i"' {iroTap.d':, .see below) 11!)'*' ('mine eyes run down with rivers [LXX oU^oSoi] of waters '), borrowed from or quoted in La 3** (LXX d<j>iuei$. The figure in these two i)assages is probably that of the tears in their flow tracing furrows on the cheek) ; Pr 5'* ('sh(iuld thy springs be scattered abroad, thy streams of water [LXX CSaro] in the street?' an exhortation to conjugal lidelity, addressed probably to the husband, who is cautioned against seeking pleasure from sources outside his own house ; see the various interpretations di.scussed in Wildeboer or Toy) 21' ('the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord as the watercourses'; so RV, which brings out the meaning more clearlv than the AV 'rivers'; L.XX op^i Wdrui') ; I.s' 30=* (LXX Mwp 5ia.Tropevdpi(voi', \\ fs -hz-) 32''' ('as rivers of water in a dry place,' LXX viup (jiepo/xevov). There is some doulit as to Jg 5'''- " and Job 2iJ". In the former of these passages AV has ' for (m. ' in ') the divisions of Reuben,' RV ' by the watercourses of Reuben,' nuSs being here and in Job 20" taken in both versions as the plural of i;'r?, a suppo.sed by- form of i^z, but it is not improbable that we should at least in Jg 5 vocalize m)t; (cf. 2 Ch 35»- '-'), giving the moaning of 'divisions' in the sense of clans ox families. In J" 5'° the LXX has pLcplSes, and in v." Sioip^ffcit, while in Job20"it readsi/MXfu
■ The word p'!^i< is used nj^unitivcly of the bonca of the hippopotamus, fts beinR hollow, Job 40*^, and of Ihf furrowi between the scales of tiio crocodile, 41' ('^).
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KouriSo,., after which Duhm emends to rfj 3":n ■milk of the pastures.' But Dillni.. Buihle, and most tr. 'streams,' viz. of honey, etc., as explained in v" (cf. '29«). In Ps 65'° W 'the nver of God ia-rhx ih^) is the eliaunel or conduit by which rain is poetically supposed to be conducted from it^ rese?^o rs in the' lieavens (cf. Job 38'^ ' Who hath cleft a conduit for the rain ? '). See Driver, Par.
Psnlt. ad loc. . - , ■ • „.„,j :.
8 n'-a The proper meaning of this wora is
' co'iidult' (from knU «f^\i-)'«"'J„itis_so rendered
bv both AV and KV in 2 K 18" 20-^ Is ,^ 3(r (L\X,
except Is 7^ where ' conduit ' is not expressed, .Spa-
S) In Job 38"-= AV has ' water-course, KV