Pa'hath-Mo'ab (Ileb. Pach'ath Moah', nns '2'^^'Ci. governor \\it. j) a sha'\ of Moah ; Sept. ^au9 [v. r. «I>a/\c/3, etc.] Mwa/3; Vulg. Phahath-Moah, "governor of Moab"), the head of one of the chief houses of the tribe of Judah, who signed his name to the sacred cov- enant of Nehemiah (Neh. x, 14). B.C. 410. "As we read in 1 Chron. iv, 22, of a family of Shilonites, of the tribe of Judah, who in very early times ' had dominion in Moab,' it may be conjectured that this was the origin of the name. It is perhaps a slight corroboration of this conjecture that we find in Ezra ii, 6 that the sons of Paliath-Moab had among their number • children of Joab ;' so also in 1 Chron. iv we find these families who had dominion in Moab very much mixed with the sons of Caleb, among whom, in 1 Chron. ii, 54; iv, 14, we find the house of Joab. It may further be conjectured that this dominion of the sons of Shelah in Moab had some connection with the migration of Elimelech and his sons into the country of Moab, as mentioned in the book of Kuth ; nor should the close resemblance of the names i1"iSj' (Ophrah), 1 Chron. iv, 14, and ns"i" (Orpah), Ruth i, 4, be overlooked. Jerome, indeed, following doubtless his Hebrew master, gives a m3's- tical interpretation to the names in 1 Chron. iv, 22, and translates the strange word Jaslmbi-leliem, ' thej' return- ed to Lcem' (Bethlehem). The author of Qucest. Ileb. in Lib. Puraleip. (printed in Jerome's works) follows up this opening, and makes Jokim (qui stare fecit soleni) to mean Eliakim, and the men of Chozeba {viri mendacii), Joash and Saraph (securus et incendens), to mean Mah- lon and Chilion, who took wives (1Pi'3) in Moab, and returned (i. e. Ruth and Naomi did) to t]je plentiful bread of Bethlehem {house of bread); interpretations which are so far worth noticing, as they point to ancient traditions connecting the migration of Elimelech and his sons with the Jewish dominion in Moab mentioned in 1 Chron. iv, 21. However, as regards the name Pahath- Moab, this early and obscure connection of the families of Shelah, the son of Judah. with Moab seems to supply a not improbable origin for the name itself, and to throw some glimmering upon the association of the children of Joshua and Joab with the sons of Pahath-Moab. That this family was of high rank in the tribe of Judah we learn from their appearing yb«)-/A in order in the two lists (Ezra ii, G; Neh. vii, 11), and from their chief having signed second among the lay princes (Neh. x, 14). It was also the most numerous (2818 [2812]) of all the fsimilies specified, except the Benjamite house of Scnaah (Neh. vii, 38). The name of the chief of the house of Pahath-Moab in Nehemiah's time was Ha- shub ; and, in exact accordance with the numbers of his family, we find him repairing two portions of the wall of Jerusalem (Xeh. iii, II, 2:i). It may also be noticed, as slightly confirming the view of Pahath-Moab being a Shilonite family, tiiat whereas in 1 Chron. ix, 5-7, and Neh. xi,5-7, we find the Benjamite families in close juxtaposition with the Shilonites, so in the building of the wall, where each family built the portion over against their own habitation, we find Benjamin and Ilashub the Pahath-Moabite coupled together (Neh. iii, 23). Tlic only other notices of the family are found in Ezra viii,
4, where two hundred of its males are said to have ac- companied Elihoenai, the son of Zcrahiah, when he came up with Ezra from Babylon ; and in Ezra x, 30, where eight of the sons of Pahath-Moab are named as having taken strange wives in the time of Ezra's gov- ernment" (Smith). See Pasha.
Pah-kTwa, a Chinese charm, consisting of eight dia- grams arranged in a circular form ; it is in most common use in China. The figure is thus formed. The eight
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diagrams are described by Mr. Cuthbertson, an Ameri- can missionary to the Chinese, as follows : " They are triplets of lines, whole and broken, the various combi- nations of which produce eight sets of triplets, each having its peculiar properties. These by further com- binations produce sixty-four figures, which also possess their peculiar powers. The first set are representa- tive respectively of heaven, vapor, fire, thunder, winds, water, mountains, earth. These mysterious figures em- body in some inscrutable manner the elements of all change, the destinies of all ages, the first princiijles of all morals, the foundation of aU actions. They, of course, furnish important elements for the subtle cal- culations of the diviner. From such a sj-stera of calcu- lation the results obtained must depend wholly upon the ingenuity of the practitioner. The figure of the eight diagrams is seen everywhere. It is often worn on the person. It is seen, too, posted in conspicuous positions about houses, chiefly over the door, to prevent the ingress of evil influences." See Doolittle, China and the Chinese (N. Y. 186G, 2 vols. 12mo) ; Nevins, China and the Chinese (N. Y. 18G9, 12mo).
Pa'i (1 Chron. i, 50), See Pau.
Paigeoline, an Italian engraver, of whom scarcely anything is known, has left a light but spirited etching, bearing his name, after the picture by Paul Veronese, representing The Mother of Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter as a Nurse for her Son. Zani spells his name Paigeloine. — Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine A i-ts, ii, G43.