Greve or Greeve, Egbert Jan, a Dutch theo- logian and Hebrew scholar, was born at Deventer Sept. 4, 1754. He studied theology at Leyden, but refused in 1783 to sign the formula of union except as a human contrivance. He was elected representative in 1796, and became professor of Oriental languages and Hebrew antiquities at the University of Frane- ker in 1800. He wrote Ultima Capita Jobi (38-42) ad grcecam versionem recensita (part i, Deventer, 1788 ; ii, Burg-Steinfort, 1791, 4to) : — a Dutch translation of most of the Epistles of St. Paul (1790, Sv6):—Vaticin- ium Nahumi et Habacuci (Amsterdam, 1793, 8vo) : — Vaticinia Jesaj(e hehraica ad numeros recensuit, ver- sionem et notas adjecit E. J. Greve ; accedit interpretatio belgica (Amst. 1800, 2 vols. 8vo) ; etc. His posthu- mous works (in Dutch) have been published by Rhyn- vis Feith (Arast. 1813, 8vo). See Saxius, Onomasticon litterarium, part viii, p. 450 ; A. A. Lotze, iMudatio E. J. Grevil (Leyden, 1815, 8vo); Hoefer, Nouv. Biograph. Generale, xxi, 960.
Greve, Jan, a Dutch Remonstrant divine, was born in the duchy of Cleves about 1580. He was establish- ed first at Arnheim, then at Campen, and finally at Heusden. In 1619 he was expelled from the country for refusing to sign the confession of Dort. Return- ing again, he preached privately for a while, but was discovered, arrested, and condemned to remain for life in the prison of Amsterdam in 1619. His friends, how- ever, liberated him in 1621, after he had remained 18 months in prison. This time he had imjiroved by writing his most important work : Tribunal reforma- tum, in quo sanioris el tutioris justitim riajudici Christi- ana inprocessu crimina!icommo7istratur, rcjecta etfuqnta tartura, cujus iniquilatem duplicem,f(dlaciam atqnc illici- tum inter Christianas usum, libera et ntcessaria dissirta- tione aperuit (Hamb. 1624-35, 4to). He also published some letters in the Limburgii Epistal. Bemmstr. eccles., among which there is one addressed to Vorstius, in which he gives an account of liis lil)eration. — Sec Bayle, Dictionary, s. v. ; Moller, Cimbria litterata ; Jo-
cher, A llgemeines Gelehrien-Lexik. ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog, Generale, xxi, 960.
Grey. See Gray.
Grey, Richard, D.D.,an English divine, was born at Newcastle, 1694, and was educated at Lincoln CjI- lege, Oxford. In 1721 he became rector of Hinton ; afterwards rector of Kincote and prebendary of St. Paul's. He died in 1771. He published^! System of English Ecclesiastical Laio (Lond. 1743, 8vo), for wliich the University of Oxford gave him the degree of D.D. ; — Memona Technica, a new Method of A rtijicial Memory (Lond. 1730, and often reprinted; last ed. Lond. 1851, 12mo) : — New Method of learning Hebrew without the Points (London, 1738, 8vo) : — Liber Jobi, in Versiculos divisus (1742, 8vo). This work was criticised by AVar- burton, to whom Grey replied in An Answer ta Mr. Warburton (Lond. 1744, 8vo). — Darling, Cyclop. Bibl. \, 1333 ; Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.
Grey, Zachary, LL.D., an English divine and la- borious writer, was born of a Yorkshire family in 1687, and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He after- wards removed to Trinity Hall, where he took the de- gree of LL.D. in 1720. He was rector of Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, and vicar of St. Giles's and St. Peter's in Cambridge, and died in 1766. He was au- thor of nearly thirty publications, many of which are violent diatribes against Dissenters. The best known of his publications is his edition of Hudibras, with An- notations and a Preface (1744, 2 vols. 8vo) ; to this ha published a supplement in 1752 (8vo). He also wrote An imparti(d Examination of NeaVs History of the Pu- ritans (Lond. 1736-44, 3 vols. 8vo). This is a really valuable work in spite of its bitterness : — .4 Defense of our Ancient and Modern Historians (Lond. 2 vols. 1725 -30) : — The Ministry of the Dissenters proved to be Null and Void (Lond. 1725, 8vo). — Hook, Eccl. Biog. v, 412.
Greyhound is the rendering given by our trans- lators of ""VIT (or rather n''3ri'2 "i"^?"!!}, zarzir' moth- na'yim, girded as to the loins, as the marg. renders ; Sept. aX'iKTwp tfnrspnrarwi' !^i]\elaig evxl/i'xog, a cock sti-utting about proudly among his h-ns ; Vulg. galius suc- cinctus lumbos), given in Pro v. xxx, 31. as an instance of gracefulness in gait. Gesenius (^Heb. Thes. p. 435) inclines to the opinion of Bochart {Hieroz. i, 103), Schultens (Comment, ad loc), and others, that it denotes a war-horse, as ornamented with girths and liuckles about the loins. This is a more nolde comparison than the cock (with the Sept., Vulg., Aquila, Theodo- tion, the Targums, the Syr. and Arab, versions, Joseph Kimchi, and others), the grejdiound (witli the Vencto- Greek, the other Kimchis, Gershon, Luther, and oth- ers), or other more fanciful conjectures, c. g. the eagle, the zebra, etc., which may be seen in Fuller (Miscell. Sacr. V, 12), Simonis {Exercitatio critica de "i"'T"iT,Hal. 1735), and others. Maurer, however (Comment, ad loc), thinks a wrestler is intended as girded for a contest, and he refers to Buxtorf (Lex. Talm. col. 692) as con- firming the signification of athlete thus assigned to zarzir. The hound was evidently known in ancient times, as appears from the Egyptian monuments. See Dog.
Grief (represented by numerous Heb. words, Gr. XvTzti). The Oriental exhibits affliction over public or private misfortune, especially the death of a beloved relative or friend, by much more demonstrative signs than the European, although the degree of connection between the deceased and the mourner, and the great- er or more moderate vehemence of character of the be- reaved individual, naturally cause a certain modifica- tion of his grief, which is too apt to be lost sight of by archteologists. The customs of the ancient Hebrews wei'e in this respect little difTcrent from those of mod- ern Orientals, and therefore derive ready elucidation from the accounts of modern travellers. In the most