Notice, linall}', some antiquated uses of the phrase to take up: (1) To lift, Is 40" ' He taketh up the isles as a very little thing ' ; cf. Ac 7" ' Ye took up the tabernacle of MolecTi' (i.e. to carry it about with you) ; 21" ' We took up our carriages' (iiroaKevaadfi.ti'ot, edd. <iri<rit., KVm ' made ready'). (2) To translate to heaven, 2 K 2' ' When the Lord Would t;ike up Elijah into heaven liy a whirl- wind,' 2'", Ao 1' ' Until the day in which he was Uken up,' !•• »• «". (3) To utter, nsed of a par-
able, as Nu 23' ' He took up his parable, and said,' so 24»- '=■ ■-»• -'■ ^, Mic *■, Ilab 2« ; also of a proverb. Is 14* ; a word. Am 5' ; a reproach, Ps 15' ; a lainentation, Jur T'", Ezk 19' ; a weeping, Jer 9'° ; and a wailing, Jer 9". Cf. Ps 16* ' Nor take up their names into my lips' ; Ezk 36^ ' Ye ai'e taken up in the lips of talkers.' (4) In Neh 5* the mean- ing is to obtain on credit. ' We take up our com for tlieni, that we may eat aud live ' (RV ' let us get corn ' ; see Ryle's note). Cf. Jonson, Every Man out of hii Humour, i. 1, • I will take up, and bring myself in credit, sure.' J. Hastings.
TALE. — The Anglo-Sax. talu meant a ' number ' (cf. Germ. Zahl) as well as a ' narrative,' and the \e:xhtellan meant to ' count ' as well as to 'narrate.' In all the examples but one of ' tale ' in AV (apart from the Apocr.) it means 'number' or 'sum.' Thus Ex 5' ' And the tule of the bricks which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them ' ; so 5\ 1 S 18", 1 Ch 9^ In Nu l'«Tindale speaks of Benjamin being numbered ' by the tale of names,' but in 1*" Zebulun is counted ' after the nurabre of names,' aud in 1** Dan is numbered ' in the summe of names.'
In like manner ' tell ' occurs frequently in the sense of ' count,' as Gn 15' ' Tell the stars, if thou he able to number them ' ; 2 Ch 2- ' Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens ' ; Sir 18' ' Who shall number the strength of his majesty, and who shall tell out all liis mercies?' Cf. 1 S 14" Cov. 'Saul sayde unto the people that was with him. Tell and se which of us is gone awaye. And whan they nombred, be- holde, Jonatlias and his wapen bearer was not there ' ; Is 10'" Cov. ' The trees also of his felde shalhe of soch a nombre, that a childe maye tell them ' ; Nu 1" Cov. ' All that were able to warre, were tolde in the try be of Juda' ; cf. also Jer 33'^ 1 K 8', 2 K 12'», Ps 22" 4S'= 56« 147* (in several of which 'tell' might be misunderstood as =' men- tion'), and Milton, L' Allegro, 67 —
' And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.*
In 1 S 27" occurs the expression ' tell on,' used, as it is still vulgarly, in the sense of ' inform against.' J. HASTINGS.
TALENT.— See artt. MONEY and Weights and Measures.
TALITHA CUMI.— The command addressed by our Lord to the daughter of Jairus (ilk 5*'), and interpreted by the Evangelist, ' Maiden, I say unto thee, arise.' The Aram, words Dip kc'^? (so Dalman, Gram. d. Jiid.-Pal. Aramdisch, p. 118, II. 6 ; p. 266, n. 1) have been variously transliterated in Greek MSS of NT. Tisch., with NACLNII, reads raXiSd ; WH, with B, ToKeiBi. (see on the siielling We.stcott-Hort, NT. ii. Append, p. 155, and WinerSclimiedel, Gram. pp. 43, 44). D lias the extraordinary variant To/Sird (found in dilierent forms in Old Latin texts, e.g. the curious reading of e, tabea acultha ; cf. Chase, Syro-Latin Text, p. 109ff. ). Koufi (rather than kovim) has the best attestation. This is borne out by the occurrence of the same imperative Dip in the Talmud, used in Shabb. IIOJ 'seven times in one page,' where a woman is addressed (so Edorsheim, Life and Times of Jesus, i. j). 631). raXiOi is probably the Aramaic fern, of •'?¥, found in Hebrew only in plur. D'tt'}^. The relating of the actual (Aramaic) words used by Jesus is characteristic of St. Mark's Krai)hic narrative; cf. 7"- »* 14*" 15**. It is need- less to speak of 'mysterious Aramaic words' as Keim does (Jesus of Nazara, iv. n. 170) on the assumption that the Gospels clot lie our Lord's words of command given in miraculoas healings
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' in Aramaic ... as if they were marfcal formulee ' (iii. p. 183). The Evangelist simply reports the very sounds which fell from Jesus' lips upon the ears of the chosen disciples on a specially solemn and memorable occasion.
H. A. A. Kennedy.
TALMAI Vd)^). — 1. A clan, possibly of Aramaic ori^jin, resident in Hebron at the time of the Hebrew conquest and driven thence by Caleb (Nu IS--' [BA GeXaMei;-, I.uc. OaXa/ielyl Jos 15'* [B eoaX/ifi, A and Luc. OaX^oi], Jg 1'" [B OoXiidv, A Qaiiu, Luc. GoX/ifi]). .See, further, art. Ahiman, No. 1. 2. Son of Ammiliur (or Ammihud), king of Geslmi, and a contemporary of David to whom he gave his daughter Maacah in marriage. He was still living many years after Maacah's mar- riage, for her son Absalom, when he fled from DaWd after the death of Amnon, found refuge with Talmai at Ge.shur (2 S 3' [B Qoixi^d, A QoXiiel, Luc. GoX/if] 13*' [B QoXixaiX-qix, A OoXo/xal, Luc. eo\ixl\ 1 Ch 3» [B Goo/iai, A eoX/Ml, Luc. GoXo^i]).