G. E. Post. UNKNOWN GOD liyvaffros ffeis).— In his speech at Athens, St. Paul begins by referring to the uni- versal interest in religious matters shown by the Athenians. In passing through the city he had seen an altar dedicated TO THE UNKNOWN GOD {iyfurrif ffei?). He makes this the text of his speech, saying that that Divine power which they ignorantly worshipi)ed he would declare to them (Ac 17^). An exact parallel to this inscription is not known. An inscription is quoted from Eu- thalius(ed. Zacagn. p. 514) : Sfois Airfas xai EvpuT-qs ital Ai^Cnjt, 6eui dyuuarifi xal iivtfi. According to Jerome (on Tit 1"), the Athenian inscription was Deis ignotis ct pereqrinis. Other quotations are Pans. I. i. 4 : QiCiv ayvwaruiv koX iipiiur ; Philaster, Vit. Apoll. vi. 3: 'A6t]vt](7iv, ou xal CLyvuiaruv Sax^dvwv Pu/iol 'iSpwTai. None of these give the parallel required, but all suggest that such an inscription would be po.ssible. Tlie whole point of the inscrip- tion lay in its being in the singular; and it is quite uncalled for to suggest, as Blass does, that St. Paul wrote originally in the plural because the neuter {i . . . toDto) in the next verse is changed by later MSS into the masculine (see Blass, ad loc).
A. C. Hkadlam.
UNLEAVENED BREAD.
Passovek.
See Leaven and
UNNI ('!!'). — 1. The name of a Levitioal family of musicians, 1 Cli IS'" (H 'EXtunjX, K 'MX, A 'Ayl, Luc. "Ai-ai-faj) *> (BS 'fii-ei, A 'Avayl, Luc. 'Ayaylas). 2. See Unno.
UNNO {Sis KHhibh, followed by RV; but ^frt 'i;; Unni (so AV, cf. 1 Ch IS"-*)).— The name of a family of Levites that returned with Zerubbalicl, Neh 12'« (U.\ om., {{"••"J '\aui, Luc. 'la^of). Guthe would read D'jv', which he finds repre8ente<l by the aKKpovorro of Lucian, taking the 'lavai of the latter to be a doublet of this word, and dropping Bakbukiau as an explanatory gloss derived from II".
UNRIGHT WU 12" 'To whom thou might««t
shew that thy judgment is not unright' (Sri oi5« doUus (Kpivas, liV ' that thou didst not judge un- righteously'). We find 'unright' ioi unrigfUeous also in Tindale, as Pent. (Mombert's ed.), p. cxxviii, ' A m»is, a kynde of Giauntes, and the worde signilieth crooked, unright, or weaked.' More common, however, is the subst. ' unright ' for unrighteousness, wrong; thus Tindale's Peni. Gn le'' (ed. 1530), ' Thou dost me unrighte ' (changed in 1535 ed. into, 'The wrong I sull're be on thy head'); Dt 25"* 'All th.at doo unri<'ht are aboua- nacion unto the Lord.' J. Hastings.
UNTOWARD.— The meaning of this word is seen in the foil, quotation from the Judgement of tlie Synode at Dart, p. 32, ' All men therefore are conceived in sin, and borne the children of wrath, untoward to all good tending to salvation, forward to evil.' It occurs in Ac 2*" 'Save your- selves from this untoward generation ' (diri tti% yev€a.i t^s ffKoXtas raim]^, KV ' from this crooked generation ' ). The subst. ' untowardness ' is also found in AV in the headings to Is 28, Hos 6.
J. Hastings.
UPHARSIN.— See Mene, Mene, Tekel, Uphar-
SIN.
UPHAZ (TEAK ; in Jer 10» Mw^df, Q"* Zoi«pflp, Vulg. Oj>haz; in Dn 10» Theod. 'fi^df; Vulg. [aurum\ obrizum). — There is considerable uncer- tainty as to this word, which is much increased by the diverse opinions of the ancient authorities. Thus LXX has in Dn 10° koI rijf 6ii<pvv Trepitfaxr- IjAvoi ^vafflvi^, Kal iK fxiaov airrov 0wy instead of Theodotion's Kai ij daipiis avrov trfpiei^uatUi'Tj iv xpvffttp 'n^df, implying considerable divergence as to the reading. The Vulg. auriim obrizum is evidently based upon a comparison of the Heb. form of Upliaz with 19 pdz, ' pure gold,' whilst the Gr. Mu(/>df implies some such variant reading as i;i3 miiphaz, ' pure,' said of gold, though the Gr. trans- lator of Jer 10 regarded this, like its variant Opliaz, as the name of a place. On the other hand, the mention of gold in both passages where the word occurs, naturally caused other translators to think of ipx Opliir, from which the Ileh. form of Upliaz (without the vowel-points) dill'ers only in having i for i.* It is apparently this which has given rise to the Gr. var. -ovtptip (see art. Opiiir) in t,>"'8 (so also the Targ. and Pesh.). Among the conjectures as to the position of Uphaz may be mentioned that of Ilitzig, that it may be the Sanskr. vip&^a (' the free'), designating an Indian colony from tho neighbourhood of the IIyplia.sis ( = llyphas = Uphaz) or Indus (Sanskr. viptl<;a), which had settled in Yemen — an ideutilication which has been described as 'more acute than probable.'
LiTBitATCRB. — Calwer Bibetlexikort, and Uiehm, Bandirdrter- '««''. •■"• T. G. Pincues.
UR (-HM 'flame'). — Father of one of David's heroes, 1 Ch II" (B :^eOp, A Qpd, Luc. OCp). See AlIASIiAJ.
UR OF THE CHALDEES (on^j tik ; i) xdpa. [tw.-] XaXSalun ; Ur Chaldmorum). — The name of this city or district occurs four times in the OT, namely, Gn ll»-«' 15', and Neh 9' ; and as there is no indi- cation as to its position, except that it was ' of the Chalda^ans,' much uncertainty exists a.s to it.-' identilication, which is increased by the fact that the LXX do not transcribe the name Ur, but sub- stitute for it X'^P"-' ' country.' Apparently on account of its comparative nearness to Canaan, whither Terah and his family were bound (Gn II"),