5. In the Pref. to AV occurs the rare but intel- li<;ible phrase ' strike the stroke ' ; ' The vintage ofAbiezer, that strake the stroke j yet the glean- ing of grapes of Ephraim was not to be despised.'
G. The verb ' to strike ' is used for the action of God's hand in disease or death, and the result is • 'stroke.'
Strila : t S 12i» ' The Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was ver>' sick ' ; 2 Ch 13"-o ' The Lord struck him, and he died ' ; Is 1^ ' VVhy should ye be stricken any more!"; KfJ ' Surely they are stricken' (D'n;j""N, KV 'utterly stricken ') ; 63* ' We did esteem him stricken * ; 538 < For the transgrressions of my people was he stricken' (\0^ v;^. RVm •to whom the stroke was due' — see Cheyne's and Skinner's notes). Cf. Knox, Workt, iii. 231, 'I can not but feir Ivke plagues to Btrj'ke the realme of England' ; Bunyan, lluiij If'ar, 27, ' My brave Lord Innocent fell down dead (with yrief, some •ay ; with bcin^ poisoned with the striking breath of one lU* Pause, as say others).'
Stroke : Job 23- ' My stroke is heavier than my groaning ' (so RV ; Heb. lit. as AVm 'my hand' : but it is scarcely possible, says Davidson, that 'my hand' should mean 'the hand of Uo<l upon me,' i.e. ' my stroke ' ; see his note) ; '66^'^ ' Beware lest lie take thee away with his stroke' (p^V'? "iJ^'Prir* ^^ *lesl thou be led away by thy sufflciency,' RVm * lest wrath lead thee away into mockery ') ; I's 3910 • Remove thy stroke away from me ' ; Is 14* * lie who smote the people in WTath with a continual stroke'; Ezk 241* •! take from thee the desire of thine e\t'8 with a stroke.' The 'stroke'* of OT, as of Is 534- s, was prob- ably leprosy ; In modern language a * stroke ' is paralysis. See art. I'LAOfs in vol. iii. p. 887". Cf. Shaks. Ricit. II. in. i. 31—
' More welcome is the stroke of death to me Thau Dolingbroke to England.'
Timan of Athem, rv. i. 23—
* Plagues, incident to men. Your potent and infectious fevers heap On Atiiens, ripe for stroke.'
J. Hastincs. STRIPES. — See Crimes and Punishmenis, vol. i. p. 527.
STUBBLE.— In one place (Job 21") this is the unfortunate tr" (AV and KV) of tehen (see Straw). In all other places it is the equivalent, in both Eng. VSS, of cs hash. The LXX tr. thi.^* word in two places (Job 13^ 41''*) x^P'^"^ '• '" eiglit KaXifiTt { = ' stubble ' or ' straw '), and in four ippv- yaya ('dry sticks' and 'stems,' including stubble, such as are gathered for fuel). This is the current (not classical) meaning of the Arali. cognate it«.s7t. Once (Is 33") the expression 'ye shall bring forth stubble' is tr. by LXX aiV«7)«7)«(r9e (B), ' ye shall perceive,' or aiax^^O-fiataBe (X°' '), 'ye shall be a.shaiiied,' evidently a ditl'erent reading. Grain in Uible lands is not cut by the sickle, but pulled up by the roots, or the straw broken oil' short near them. Con-sequently there is little stubble in the harvest field, in our sense of the term. When teMcn wat withheld from them, the Israelites had to utilize Ifask for the nianufacture of their bricks. Ifasli refers to such remnants of grain stalks, with sticks and stumps of small pliiiils, iia are ex- pre.'*sed by (ppOyaoa. Such furnish the pasturage of countless herds of cattle and Hocks of sheep. They are liable to catch lire and burn. Most of the allusions to stubble are with reference to such conllagrations (Ex 15', Is S", Jl 2" etc.). It is liiiully rooted uji and carried away by the wind
* In the same way the subst. * blow' Is used In Ps 3010 and Jer 1417. In the former passage RV retains, the Heb. being louDd only there ; in the latter it changes into ' wound.' VOL, IV. — to
(Job 13^, Is 40=", Jer 13" etc.). One of the most characteristic spectacles witnessed in passing over the breezy plains of Syria, after the harvest is over, is that of the uprooted plants of the large Umbclliferm, Compusita, and others, often with a spherical contour, dried to excessive lightness by the hot winds and whirled across the fields, leaping madly over stones and inequalities in the surface, and sonietinies taking long llights in the air, then pausing a moment, only to bound oil' again, until they are caught in some thorn bush, or lost to view beyond the distant horizon. G. E. POST.
STUFF (Lat. stupa, stnppa, the coarse gart of flax, tow, Old Fr. estoffe) is used in AV in the sense of goods, esp. household furniture. The Heb. is '^j /cili, except in Ex .3i;'(-ipN^c, lit. * work,' of the furniture of the tabernacle). The Gr. is t4 OKexiaaiiaTa., Jth 15" ; or rd <iK€vri, jth 16", Lk 17". Cf. Udall, Jira.fmus' Par. i. 7, ' AH that ever they had about them of stuti'e or furniture, shewed and testifyed povertie and siniplicitie ' ; North, Plutarch, 871, 'This man after he had spent the most ]iartof his father's f;oods, was so sore in debt, that he was driven to sell his household stutle, by billes set up on every post.'