" hooks formed could in no case Fer<'us80u. have well tallied with this posi- tion : had they been stretched lengthwise of the building (as their close correspondence in length would indicate), the joint also would have been in the same direction, i. e. at right angles with the line of the vail ; if crosswise of the building (as both Kiggenbach and Fergusson sup- pose), then the line of the suture and that of the " vail" could only have coincided on the su|i])osition that the entire extra ten cubits' breadth of the embroidered "cur- tains" was thrown outside the rear of the edifice, where it would be utterly useless and exposed to the weath- er. Nor could the requirements of the text cited be met by using these colored sheets singly in this maimer: not longitudinally for the same reason as before ; not trans- versely, for then their breadth would not cover both the apartments.
(6.) The goats'-hair sheets, if combined by such a contrivance as an S hook, would be equally impractica- ble: placed longitudinally on the ridge (as their length would emphatically indicate by this second repetition of the thirty cubits), they would certainly leak intoler- ably at the joint, unless this were brought exactly at the peak, which the odd number of the "curtains" in this set (II) j)revents; placed transversely, even in the most favorable manner (Fergusson's), so as to " break joints" with the suture in the sheets under them, they must (as a corollary from the above combination of the latter) have had their extra width (fourteen cubits) project wholly beyond the 7-ear of the building, leaving nothing for a " porch" (which Fergusson imagines).
(c.) In any case it would have been a bad arrange- ment to make the suture in either set of roof canvas come exactly over so choice a jiiece of drapery as the " vail" was ; for some drip must have been apprehended, or an embroidered lining (a delicate article with -which to stop a leak) would not have been provided — to say nothing of Fergusson's idea that the sheep-skin and fur robes may have been for the purpose of covering the joint! In short, the bare fact of leaving such a crack in the roof would have been an irremediable blunder, which it is strange that a professi(mal architect should make. On Kiggenbach's theory of a flat roof, all the rain would inevitably have poured through this crevice directly upon the vail. Jehovah planned better than this, we may be sure. See Ty\bkrna€Lk.
Tachmas. See Night-hawk.
Tach'monite (Heb. [without the art.] Tachke- moni', ■'I'^rnri; Se[)t. o Xovarmoc v. r. v'ii<; QtKffia- VI ; Vulg. supieutissiinus'). "The Tachmonite that sat in the seat," chief among David's captains (2 Sam. xxiii, 8), is in 1 Chron. xi, 11 called "Jashobeam a Hachmo- nite," or, as the margin gives it, "son of Hachmoni." The Geneva version has in 2 Sam. xxiii, 8, " He that sate in the seate of wisedome, being chiefe of the princes, was Adino of Ezni," regarding "Tachmonite" as an ad- jective derived from DZH, chakdrn, "wise," and in this derivation following Kinicbi. Kennicott has shown,
TACKLING
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TADMOR
M'ith much appearance of probability, that the words rnt'a 2i:J"', yosheh bashskebcl/i, " he that sat in the seat," are a corruption of Jdahoheam, the true name of tlie hero, and that the mistake arose from an error of the transcriber, who carelessly inserted n31i"3 from the previous verse where it occurs. He further considers "Tachmoni" a corruption of the appellation in Chroni- cles, " son of Hachmoni," which was the family or local name of Jashobeam. " The name here in Samuel was at first ■^3'23nn, the article n at the beginning having been corrupted into a Pi; for the word "p in Chronicles is regularly supplied in Samuel by that article" (Dissert. p. 82). Therefore he concludes "Jashobeam the Hach- monite" to have been the true reading. Josephus (.1?;^ vii, 12, 4) calls him 'ikaaafiog t'iuc 'AxfjUfon, which favors Kennicott's emendation. — Smith. In these cor- rections Keil (Comment, ad loc.) concurs. See Hach- siONi: Jashobeam.
Tackling is the rendering in the A. V. of itkevi], which occurs only in Acts xxvii, 19, meaning the spars, ropes, chains, etc., of a vessel's furniture (as in Diod. Sic. xiv, 79 ; so of household movables, Folyb. ii, 6, 6 ; equipage, Xenoph. Annb. iv, 7, 27; Herodian, vi, 4, 11 ; warlike apparatus, Diod. Sic. xi, 71). See Ship.
Tacquet, Andrew, a Jesuit of Antwerp, known for liis skill in the mathematical sciences, died in 1660. He published, among other things, a good treatise on astronomy, an edition of Euclid, etc. The prejudices of the times seem to have prevented him from more ef- fectually defending the system of Copernicus. His col- lected works were published at Antwerp (1669, 1707, fol.). See Chalmers, Bior/i. Diet. s. v.
Tad'mor (Heb. Tadmor', "I'i'l!]!, prob. city of pnlms [see below] ; Sept. QtSnup v. r. QoeCifiop ; Vulg. Palniira), a city "in the wilderness" which Solomon is said to have built (1 Chron. viii, 4). In the nearly par- allel passage (1 Kings ix, 18), where the phrase "in the land" is added to the description, indicating that this, like the associated cities, was within Solomon's legiti- mate jurisdiction, the reading "Tadmor" is adopted in the A. V. from the ATeH, or margin ; the Kethib, or text, has "ii^ri, Tamdr (Sept. Oep/ta^ v. r. G«ji(juwp; Vulg. Palmira), which should probal)Iy be pointed 1520, by contraction for "l^^Pl, or in imitation of the original I'^Fl, the joalm-tree (see Keil, Comment, ad loc). See Palm. (In the following article we freely use the ac- counts in the dictionaries of Kitto and Smith, with ad- ditions from other sources.)