and Chapman, Odi/sscys, vi. 274 —
'Give my nakedness Some shroud to shelter it, if to these seas Linen or woollen you have brought to cleanse.*
Bnt the meaning was soon restricted to clothing for the dead, a winding-sheet. So usually ia Shaks., as Love's Labour's Lost, V. iL 479 —
* Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud.' There was, however, a side application of the word, to express covering or shelter of any kind. Thus Milton, Comus, 147 —
' Bun to your shrouds, within these brakes and trees ;
and PL x. 1067—
"The winds Blow moist and keen, shattering the gr.aceful locks Of these fair spreading trees : which bids us seek Some better shroud, some better warmth to cherish Our limbs benumb'd.'
This is the meaning of the word in Ezk 31', its only occurrence in AV, ' Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a sh.idowing shroud' (Heb. v-<n, a thicket or forest; LXX omits; \ u]g. frondibus nemorosn.9).
J. Ha.stings. SKUA (P!?).— The father of Judali's Canaanite wife, Gn 38-- '^ (A ^aia, Luc. SoiV), who appears in 1 Ch 2'' (RV) as Bath-shua (B evyd-njp ACas, A . . . -alias, Luc. . . . Zoiie).
SHUAH (ncJ).— A son of Abraham and ^Cetnrah, Gn 25-, 1 Ch l** (A ^aie, Luc. SoOt, B in latter passage ZQc). The tribe represented by this name may perhaps be the Suchu of the cuneiform in- scriptions, on the right bank of the Euphrates .■iouth of Carclieniish (so Dillm., Holzinger, ct at.). BlLDAD the Shuhite ("tod) of Job 2" (o lavxaluv Tipavvoi) 8' 18' 25' 4'2" (6 1avx(c)iTTi%) is prob. intended to be thought of sis belonging to this tribe.
SHUAL (Si'v;' ; B ZouXd, A ZoviX, Luc. Zoviv).— An Asherite, 1 Ch 7"*.
SHUAL, The Land of (S^ie' px ' the land of the jackal ' ; B ^ -uydX, Luc. t; 717 i;arydX). — When the Philistines encamped at >iichmash, they .sent out three foragin" parties. One of these ' turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual' (1 S 13"). Another iiarty went westward towards Beth-horon, and the tliird apjiarently east- ward toward tlie wilderness. The road to Ujihrah must have run northward between the last two routes, and the 'land of Shual' must conseijuently have been to the north of .Michmash {Mulhmds), and not far from Opiirali, wliich is very generally identified with the village et-Taiyibeh, to the east of Bethel {PEF Mem. ii. 293). C. W. Wilson.
SHUBAEL.— See Shebuel.
SHUHAH (nij:c»).— A brother of Chelub (».«. Caleb), 1 Ch 4". Instead of 'Chelub the brother of .Shuhah,' LXX MA read XaW/3 Tra-rijp 'A(rxi, 'Caleb, father of Ascha' (i.e. AcilsAll, Jos IS'"-, Jg !"»•, 1 Ch 2*») ; Luc. has XoXt';3 i dSe\<pit Sowo.
SHUHAM (criie»).— A son of Dan, Nu 26« (B lap^tl, A Za/ieioi'i, V ^aftl, Luc. :LatU), called in Gn 46" HusiiiM. The gentilic name Shuhamites ('"Twci; B 6 Sa/ifl, .\ 6 -afjidSiil, F i ^afii, Luc. 4 2oM«i) also occurs in Nu '26".
SHUHITE.— See Shuah.
SHULAMMITE.— See Song of Songs.
SHUMATHITES (-nv^ij ; B ' Baafmetlpi, A 'Baaua-
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SHUXAilMITE
SHUSHAX
6ely, Luc. 6 ^a/ia$i). — One of the families of Kiriath-^earim, 1 Cli 2°*. Nothing is known of this family, or the origin of its name.
SHUNAMMITE.— See next article.
SHUNEM (cri? ; in Joshua B :S,ovi>ip, A ^owdfi, Luc. —wij/i ; in I Sam. I! ami Luc. Zmi-idf, A Vufajxif ; in 2 Kinf;s B -ovfiai', B" ""» Luc. Xuiyudp, A*"" SiuKi/i, A' -iw/id/t). — A place-name men- tioned three times in the OT (Jos 19'^ 1 S 28S 2 K 4*). In Jo.shua it is named in the enumeration of the towns and villages belonging to I.ssachar. Eusebius-Jerome identify it with a village 5 Koman miles south of Tabor, in their time called ZouMti (Lag. 0710111.' pp. 183, 284). There is still a hamlet in this same locality named Siilc7H or Sulam. It lies on the slopes of Jebel Dalii, the hill which faces Jezreel from the north. It looks across to Gilboa, which bounds the southern side of the valley that lies at the foot of Jebel Dahi. It has therefore been identihed with the camping- ground of the Philistines before their victory over Saul (1 .S 28''). Saul's army is supposed to have occupied the ground at the foot of Gilboa. If so, the valley laj- between the hostile armies. It runs eastward from Jezreel (Zer'in) to the Jordan. Shunem is almost at its N.W. extremity. The district is described in Robinson, BllP iii. 168 ff.
There il precedent for distinf^ishing the Shunem of 2 K 4^ from that already identified. Kusebius-Jerome eay it was a place in the territorj'of Sebaste (Samaria), i. iptoK 5., within the district of Akrabatta (Lag. Onom.^ pp. 184, 24i.5). They give Sanim as the later name. If Akrabatta is the 'toparchy' earlier known as part of Judiea, lying considerably south-east of Samaria, it is too far from Cxrmel to be very probable. But even Sdlam is not within the easy reach of Cannel implied by v.22ir.. The statement that Elisha frequently passed Shunem (v.9) gives more help than any other in determining its situa- tion. It seems to nnply that Shunem was a place near his home or on the direct road to a locality which he frequented. Now Samaria was Elisha's home (6^5^-9, cf. t'^), and Carmel appears to have been a favourite resort and the destination of his journeys when he passed through Shunem (4^^, cf. 2^5). But Sulam is 8 or 9 hours from Samaria, and decidedl.v off the road from there to Carmel. The claim of Sanira should there- fore perhaps be left open. Whether it was near Samaria or not, if it lay on the way to Carmel the situation would be more appropriate than that of Solam. Near Taaiiach a place Salim is marked on the maps. It is not far from the eastern ex- tremity of Carmel, and might be made a stopping-place on the way from Samaria.