Pash'ur [some Pa'shin-] (llch. Pashchur' , "iWi'S [Gesen., from an Arabic root, siiriounded with prosper- it;/ ; Fiirst, from a Heb. root, liberation; the etymol- ogy, as implying something favorable, seems to be re- ferred to in Jer. xx, 3] ; Sept. <l>n<T\'(op. ^aaovp, v. r. 4>rt(7CT0t''|0 [Ezra ii.3S; x, 22]. <I>«frfoi'ip [Neh. vii. 41], Uanxi'op [in Jeremiah]), the name of two or three men.
1. A priest, the son of Immcr. and a contemporary of Jeremiah, wlio acted so as to incur a severe threat- ening from that propliet. B.C. 607. Presuming on his position as "chief governor in the house of the
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Lord" (Jer. xx, 1) — that is, probably, being at the head of those who had the charge of maintaining order and decorum about the Temple — he smote Jeremiah, when he heard him prophesying of the desolations which were going to fall upon Jerusalem, and put him in the stocks. In this humiliating and painful situation the prophet remained for a night; and on being brought forth on the morrow, he declared to I'ashur that the Lord no longer called his name Pashur, but Magor-mi- sahib — on every side enveloped in trouble and distress. This, the prophet further intimates, was to be verified by both Pashur and his family being involved in the terrible disasters that were presently to burst on Judali and Jerusalem from the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar; they were to be all carried away into captivity to Bab- ylon, and die in that foreign land (xx, 6). We have no spccitic account of the fortunes of the family; but the circumstances which soon took place leave no room to doubt that the prediction was verified.
2. Another priest in the time of Jeremiah, being the son of INIelchiah (Jer. xxi, 1 ; xxxviii, 1). B.C. 589. He twice came in contact with the prophet : once when sent along with some others to inquire what was the mind of the Lord respecting the meditated assault of Nebuchadnezzar against Jerusalem, which drew forth an announcement of certain overthrow; and again when concurring with several others in an application to the king to have Jeremiah put to death on account of the denunciations he was uttering, as tending to discourage the people and produce in them a spirit of disaffection. The application led to Jeremiah's imprisonment, from ■which he was only delivered by the special interposi- tion of Providence (1 Chron. ix, 12). Pashur's family, however, were among those who returned from the cap- tivity of Babylon, and seem to have possessed a place of importance both as to position and numbers (Neh. vii,41; xi, 12).
3. The father of Gedaliah, which latter took part with the Pashur last named in the accusation and im- prisonment of Jeremiah (Jer. xxxviii, 1). B.C. 589. He was perhaps identical with one or the other of the foregoing.
Pas(s)iuelli, Lorenzo, an Italian painter, was born in 1029 at Bologna. He first studied under Simone Cantarini, and next with Flaminio Torre. He after- wards went to Venice, where he became enamoured of the ornamental and brilliant style of Paul Veronese, and he made the works of that master his model, though he did not servilely imitate him. Lanzi says, " He bor- rowed from Veronese his effective and magnificent com- position, but the airs of his heads and the distribution of his colors he obtained from another source ; and though he never acquired the correctness of design which distinguishes the works of Torre, j-et in this re- spect he surpassed Paolo." On his return to Bologna, Pasinclli foiuid abundant employment in painting, prin- cipally for the churches. He was naturally inclined to create surprise by the display of copious, rich, and spir- ited compositions; such are his two pictures at the Certosa, representing Christ's Entrance into Jerusalem, and his Return into Limbo ; and such, too, is his history of Coriolanus, in the Casa Ranuzzi— a piece found re- peated in many collections. No one can behold these paintings without granting to Pasinelli a true painter's lire, great novelty of ideas, and an elevated character. With these gifts, he was sometimes too extravagant in his imitation of the attributes, pompous spectacles, and strange and novel draperies of Veronese, which he is thought to have carried to the extreme, as in his Preach- ing of John the Baptist in the Wilderness, which gave occasion to his rival TarufH sarcastically to remark that, instead of the desert of Jud;\?a, he discovered in it the piazza of St. ]Mark at Venice. He nevertheless knew how to moderate his fire according to his theme, as in his Holy Famih/, in the church of the Barefooted Car- melites, which partakes of the elegance and grace of Albano. The most esteemed of his paintings in the
churches at Bologna are the Resurrection, in St. Fran- cesca ; and the Martyrdom of St, Ursula and her Com- panions, in the Palazzo Zambeccari. Pasinelli died in 1700. Basan erroneously states that Pasinelli etched some plates, and mentions two — St. John Preaching in the Wilderness, and the Martyrdom of St. Ursula and other saints ; but these plates were engraved by Loren- zini, a scholar of Pasinelli. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine A rts, u, 658, 659.
Pasiphae, a goddess worshipped among the an- cient Greeks at Thalama?, in Laconia. She was believed to give supernatural revelations or oracular responses in dreams to those who slept in her temple.