UZZIEL (Sx'iy ' my strength is El,' cf. the name .Tiy Uzziah ; LX'X '0^c)iri\).—i. A son of Kohath, Ex" 6'»*', Lv 10^ Nu a'"-*', 1 Ch (i- '» lo'" -'3'-- '^ 24'-^ ; with gentilic name the Uzzielites (""rN'!;';"), Nu 3=', 1 Cli --0^. 2. A Simeonite ; one of those who took part in the expedition to Mt. Seir, 1 Ch 4^-. 3. Eponym of a Benjamite familj', 1 Ch 7'. 4. A musician, of the sons of Human, 1 Ch25Mcalled in v.'* AZAREI.). 5. A Levite, of the sons of Jeduthun, 2 Ch 2'J'^. 6. One of the guild of the goldsmiths, who took part in the repairing of the wall, Neh 3'. 7. See Jaaziel.
* It the view a<lvocated in this art. be correct, the statement in art. CuRU.NOLOur op 01 (vol. i. p. iOV ad An.) will have to be moditled ftccordiogly.
VAGABOND.— This English word ia nsed in AV in the sense of wanderer (Lat. rayabundus, from vagari to wander). It is applied to Cain, Gn 4''' ' A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth ' (n;; yj, LXX rriyai' xal rp^fiuv, Symra. ivir- Taros itai d/cardtrTaTOS, Vulg. vagus etprojuqus, Tind. ' A vagabunde and a rennagate,' liV ' A fugitive and a wanderer '), 4" ; Ps 109'" ' Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg ' (vjj lyii; yi:] ; Cov. ' Let his children be vagabundes and begg their bred'). So in Jg 11' Cov. 'There resorted unto him [Jephthah] vagabundes, and weiite out with him'; Fuller, Huly War, 206, 'Being to shape their course into Palestine, they went into Prance ; showing the}- hailavertigo in their heads, mistaking the West for the East ; or else, that like vagabonds they were never out of their way ' ; Uoldsmith, Citizen, vii. ' He who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is onl}' a vagabond.'
The atij. occurs in Ac 19" 'Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists' {tCiv TrtpKpxoiUrwi' 'Ion- iaiuM', i:V 'strolling'). So Melvill, Diary, 361, 'To take order with the pure r = poor] that there be not vagabund beggirs' ; Shaks. Ant. and Clcop. 1. iv. 45 —
' Lilt) to k rat^bond flag upon the stream.'
J. Hastings. VAHEB (3CI1). — An nnidentilicd locality, men- tioned only in the obscure quotation from the book of tiio Wads of the Lord in Nu 2"* (BA ZwijS, V and Luc. Zoiji). See Supuau.
VAIL.-See Veil.
YAIZATHA (Kn;:!. ; B Zapov9uTo!, A Za/SoiryaSd, K Za/3oi'5e(?di', Luc. 'liov0dO). — One of the ten sons of Hainan, Est 9°. The name may be = I'ers. Vuhyaz- dAta, ' given of the Best one (cf. Benfey, Pers. Keilin.ichr. [1847] 18, 93; V. Spiegel, Altpers. KeUinschr. 240).
YALE, VALLEY.— Fci/e stands in AV for two Hebrew words p^y and nj'fy ; and valley for live Hebrew words, n^,?;, k-?, Snj, pcji, n^cf, and one Greek word, tpipay^ (Lk 3°T)- Of these words, the meaning and use of ."Hij;, a broad plain be- tween hills, nS;:^ lowland (so always in KV), and Snj wadt/, have been dealt with uniler Plain, 3. 7, and River, 3, respectively ; so that n;3, pfv, and <f>6.pa-fi alone remain to be considered here.
1. k;3 (<;a»'), always ' valley ' in both AV and RV, is a narrow valley, and would be more ex- actl3' represented by glen or ravine. The gai't mentioned in the Of are— the v. of Hinnom (.los 15' and frequently; 'the valley,' Jer 2''''), which gave its name to the 'rrt//c'/-gate' of Jems. (2 Ch 2G», Neh 2'»- '» 3'») ; of Iphtab'cl, Jos 19"- ", on the border between Zebuhin and Asher ; of Zeboirn (the hya-nas), IS 13'», S.E. of Gibenh ; of Salt, apiiarently somewhere near Edom (2 S 8"=1 Ch 18'», cf. Ps eO""'; 2K 14', 2 Ch 2.j") ; the v. of craftsmen, or smiths (IS 13'"; cf. IIGIIL 160 f., 211), ICh 4" (KV here Geharashim), N.h ll", near Lod (Lydda) ; and of Zcphathah, 2 Ch 14", neer MarCsha (though prob. ' in the v. north of M.' should be read with LXX ; cf. Buhl, 89), no doubt the Wady cl-Afranj, HGHL 231, 233. Valleys not expressly named are — the v. in front of Beth-pe'or, a station of the Isr., in which Moses
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was buried (Nu 21=», Dt 3=9 4-" 34«) ; one on the N. of Al {Jos 8") ; one near Gedor (1 Cli 4^ ; but see Gedor, 2); one in tlie 'vale' of Elah (1 S 17"), perhaps the ' deep trench which the coniliiiied streams' of the W. es-Sur and the W. el-Jiiuly ' have cut through the level land ' below the point where they meet (HGUL 2-28) ; the ' valley of vision,' in or close to Jerus. (Is 22'-'); one close under Samaria (Is 28'- *, Mic 1^) ; one mentioned as the ideal burial-place of the hosts of Go^' (Ezk 3,jii. II. 16) . and the ravine which Zech. (H-"-'-') pictures as being split through the Mt. of Olives, when J" descends upon it to deliver His people.
The word occurs also, without reference to speoitic localities, in Ps 23* ('a ravine of deathly gloom,' fig. of a situation of loneliness and peril) ; Is 40'' (LXX <p6.pa.yi, whence Lk 3°) ; and in the plur. generally (usu. opp. to mountains), 2 K 2", Ezk 6' 7'« 3I'= 32= 35« 30*- «. In 1 S 17"'^ (RV 'to Gai') 'to Oath' is evidently to be read with LXX and most moderns; see v.'^''. In the Apocryplia 'valley' stands for <!>ipayi, Jth 28 V 11" 12' 13'"; and for ai\6i>, Jth 4-' 7"- " I0'»- ".