TAHREA (!;inn).-A grandson of MepMboshetb 1 Ch 9" IB Gapdx, A eapd Luc. ^^P''")- ^ «' ".ime appears (prob. by a copyist's ei-vor) in 8» as Tarea (Jj4i3 ; B Qtpie, A eap^e, LuC. Gapaa).
TAHTIM HODSHI, The Land of (tiij d'P'?,p P? '
•ASa^al; terra inferiora Hodsi)-A place east of Jordan which Joab and his officers visited when maWng the census for David (2 S .24e). It is nieu- tioned between Gilead and Dan-jaan. The Ml , however, is certainly corrupt. I" all probal .1 ty we should read nv-3 o'^-n 'to the land o<^^
The emendation c-prn is due to Hitzig (GVI p. -J), npn3 to Thenius (who suggested -v-p or n^np). Loth emendations, which are stnkmgly confirined by Luc €ts yv" \(TTielix KaSiJs, are accepted by WelUi., Driver, Budde, ct al. Another emendation of 'v■^n is that of Ewald (Hut iii- 102), who ^^'O" ^ «f^ pnn (Hermon). This is supported by Buhl (GAP 60) and somewhat favoured by Lohr and HP. Sn.'ith (Sam. ad loc), mainly on the ground that Ij:ade.h on the Orontes is too f^^y'^I^h to suit the requirements of the passage. C. %V . W ILSON.
TAKE.-The verb 'to take' is one of a short list of English words which Earie 'can offer with „„st cuntfdence as words which have come in through Danish agency ' (Philology, % 59). It is at an V rate a Scand. word ; and f^o"J. the mean- in" of the Gothic Ukan and its relation to Lat. tanqere it is probable that its earliest ^^^"'"g is to ' touch with the hand,' as in ^I^T'^OW ^"S'- ml p. 31, • Uro lord . . . spredde his hond, and toklislepre; . . . and al so rathe he was i-wansd ofhis mXd'i'e.' From this would easily flow • lay hold of,' ' seize,' ' receive,' and the like The ex- amples that deserve attention in AV may b«
^'rfos:iIto:7:p7rson: Sir23" •TMsmanshaJl be punished in the streets of the city, and where l,e suspecteth not he shall be taken (t'"'*^'^";^ • Jn 7- 'Then they sought to take him ("d^i.), but i no man laid hands on him.' Of. Mt 4" Imrt.
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• Wlien Jesufl had hearde that Jhon was taken, he dcimrted into GalUe.'
2. To come upon one unexpectedly : 2 Mac 5^ 'Taking the Jews keeping holiday, he commanded his men to arm themselves ' ; 1 Co 3'" ' He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.' Cf. Earle, Microcos. 'A Constahle' — ' Hee is a very carefull man in his Olliee, hut if hee stay up alter Mid- night j'ou shall take him napjiing ' ; bhaks. As Yon Like It, IV. i. 175, ' You shall never take her without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue.' So to he taken (i.e. 'overtaken') with niijht. Sir Se'-" ; with evil, Gn 19'^ ; disease, 2 Mac 9-', Mt 4« ; fever, Lk 4»« ; palsi/, 1 Mac 9" ; pangs, Mic 4'; one's iniquities, Pr 5-'^; a de- moniacal seizure, Mk 9" ; fear, Lk 8". Cf. Lk 7" Rhem. ' And feare tooke them al, and they magnified God'; Rutherford, Letters, 61, 'Take you no fear.'
3. ' Take ' was formerly used of the fascination of some good or had inlluence, which was often supposed to he due to supernatural powers. Thus Palsgrave, ' Taken, as chyldernes lynimes he by the layries, faie ' ; Cotgiave, 'fee, taken, be- witched ' ; Markham, Treatise on Morses, ' A horse that is bereft of his feeling, mooving, or styrring, is said to be taken . . . some farriers conster the word taken to be striken by some planet or evil spirit.' So Pr 6^ ' Lust not after her beauty in thine heart ; neither let her take thee with her eyelids' (^qjirVxi, LXX /i-qSi dwapiraaB-gs) ; so 6"; Sir 9* ' Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts' (^ijirore aXfs ; RV 'Lest haply thou be caught'), 23'. Cf. Uunyan, Holy War, 17, 'They were taken with the forbidden fruit'; Adams, // Peter 46, ' It is said that Judith's pantofies ravished Holofernes' eyes ; her sandals took him.'
4. The following phrases demand attention: (1) Take care, in tlie sense of ' be anxious ' (see Care), To S-* ' Take no care, my sister, he shall return in safety ' (^li) X/ryOf tx() ; 1 Co 9» ' Doth God take care for oxen ? ' {fir) tuv poCiv /UXei rf Bnf ; RV ' Is it for the oxen that God careth?' Tind. 'Doth God take thought for oxen?' — See Thought. (2) Take indignation, Bel ^ ' They took great indignation ' (rp^atiaKTTtt!o.v XLav) ; 2 Mac 4" (idelva- (of). The usual plirase is ' to have indignation,' as Mai l\ Mt 26«. (3) Take heart. Bar 4*' ' Take a good heart, O Jerusalem ' (fldpuft). (4) Take one's journey, Dt 2*. Cf. Ex 40^ Tind. ' When tlie clowde was taken up from of the habitacyon, the children of Israel toke their iomayes as oft as they iomayed.' (5) Take order, see ORDER. Cf. Ac 8' Rheims, ' Devout men tooke order for Stephens funeral.' (6) Take a taste of, 2 Mac 13" ' W hen the king had taken a taste of the man- liness of the Jews ' {el\i]<pus yeviriy). (7) Take thought, see Thought. (8) Take in vain, see Vain, and cf. Erasmus, Crede, 153, ' This thynge is to be noted and marked that he dyd not sayo, thou shalte not name god, but he sayde, thou shalte not take the name of god. For that thynge is taken which is ajiiilyed and put to some use, and that thynge is tulien in vayne and indiscreetly which is taken to a prophane and a vjle use, as when a man swereth by god in a matter of smal wayghte or valoure.'