"Rock of acres, cleft for me. Lei tne hide myself in thee," etc.
See Allibone. Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v.: Tyerman, IJfe and Times of John Wesley, iii, 139, 190, 210; Belclier, Historical Sketches of Hymns, p. 248- 250; Christopher, Hymn- writers and their Hymns, p. 4ti-49.
Topographical Terms. AVe have had contin- ual occasion in tliis Cyclopedia to point out the great accuracy with which these are used in the original lan- guages of the Scripture, especially the Hebrew, although often obscured by the want of exactness and uniformity in the A. V. It is our ])urpose under the present head to present a general view of such terms, referring for details to the respective articles. In this we chieflv condense tiie excellent conspectus given by Stanley in the appendix to his work on Sinai and Palestine. See
(JKOGK.Vl'HY.
A. Land. I. Tracts (iucliijiug especially depressions, levels, and barrens).
1. Einek (p^"), a vaUcij, used iu general (Numb, xiv, 25; Josh, vi 11,13; xiii,19,'>7; Judg. i, 19,34 ; v,15; 1 Sam. vi, 13 [Betlisheniesh] ; '2 Sam. xviii, 18 ["dale"] ; 1 Khi'is XX, 28; 1 Cliron. xii, 1.5; ,Ter. xxi, 13; xxxi, 40; xlvil, 5; xlviii,S; xlix, 4; Mic. i, 4) ; m specifically "vale of Sid- dim" (Gen. xiv, 3, S, 10), "valley of Shaveh" (ver. 17), " vale of Hebron" (sxsviii, 14), " valley of Achor" (.Josh, vii, 24, 2i;; xv, 7; Isa. Ixv, in; IIos. ii, 1.5), "valley of Aja- lon" (Josli. x, 12), "valley of Renhaim" (xv, 8; xviii, Iti; 2 Sam. V, IS, 22; xxiil, 13; 1 C'hion. xi, 15; xiv, 9, 13; Isa. xvii, .5), "valley of Jezieel" (Josh, xvii, 16; Judg. vi, 33; vii, 1, S, 12; Hoa. i, 5: pr.>bably also 1 Sam. xxxi, 7; 1 Chr )n. X, T). "vallev of Ke/,iz" (Josh, xviii, 21), " val- l.^y ofBeih-rehol." (ver. 2S), " valley of Elah"(l Sam. xvii, 2.19; xxi, 9), "v.dley of Herachali" (2 Chron. xx,26), "val- ley of liaca" (Psa. Ixxxiv, «), "vallev of Succolh" (Ix, 6; cviii, 7), "valley (irGil)eon"(rsa. xxviii,21), "valley of ,Je- hoshapliat" (Joel iii, 2, 12), "valley of Decision" (ver. It), " Belli-einek" (Josh, xix, 27).
2. Gey (S"';! or ■'S), a ramne (A. V. invariably "valley"), used generally (Psa. xxiii,4: Isa. xxviii, 1,4; xl,4; Jer. ii.23; E/,ek. vi,3; vii, 16; xxxi, 12; xxxii, 5; xxxv, S; xxxvi,4, 0; Mic. i, C; Zech. xiv, 4, 5\ and specifically of Moab (Niiiub. xxi,20: Dent, iii, 29 ; iv, 46: xxxiv, 6), Hin- noiu (Josh. XV, 8; xviii, 16; 2 Kings xxiii, 10; 2 Cliron. xxvni, 3; xxxiii, 6; Neh. xi, 30; Jer. vii, 31, 32; xix, 2,0; xxxii, 35; proli. Isa. xxii, 1,5; also " valley-<jrate,"2Chron. xxvi, 9 ; Neh. ii, 13, 15 ; iii, 13i, Jiphthali-er(,Tosh. xix, 14, 27), Zeboim (I S.im. xiii, 18; comp. Neh. xi, 34); Salt (2 Sam. viii, 13; 2 Kin^s xiv, 7 ; 1 CUron. xviii, 12 ; 2 Chron. XXV, 11 : P^a. Ix, title), Zephatliah (2 Chron. xiv, 10), Char- ashim (1 (;iirou. iv, 14; "craftsmen," Neh. xi, 3.5), " pas- seuger.~" (E/.ek. xxxix, 11), Hamon-gog (ver. 11, 15), Ai (.losh. viii, 2), near the Jordan (2 Kings ii, 16), Gedor (I Chron. iv, 39).
3. Shaveh (HV^^, a dale, namely, of Kirjathaim (Numb. xxxii, .37), and the kings (Gen. xiv, 17 ; in 1 Sam. xviii, IS this word is not used).
4. MetsuUdh (TTS'^^) a dell (Zech. i, 8).
5. micdh (ni'iTa), a broad plain between mountains, used generally (l)eut. viii, 7; xi, 11 ; Psa. civ, 8; Isa. xli IS; lxiii,U: xl. 4, " plain"); specificallv "valley of Jeri- cho" (Dent, xxxiv, H), "v;dley of Mizpeh" (Josh, xi, S) " v.alley of Lebanon'' (ver. 17 ; xii, 7). "vallev of Medd- do" (2 Cliron. xxxv, 29; Zech. xii, ID, "plain of Ono" (Neh. vi, 2), " plain of Aveu" (Am >s i, 5), "plain of Dura"
(Dan. iii, 1), " plain of Mesopotamia" (Ezek. iii, 23, 24 ; viii, 4; xxxvii, 1, 2; probably the same as "plain of Shiuar," Gen. xi, 2).
6. Ml-ili('ir ("iTll"i7D), downs or table-land, specifically of the i)lateau of Moab (Deut. iii, 10 ; iv, 43 ; Jo.*h. xiii, 9, 16, 17, 21 ; XX. 8 ; 1 Kings xx, 23, 25 ; 2 Chrou. xxvi, 10 ; Jer. xxi, 13; xlviii, 8,21).
7. Sharon ("il^d), a flat, specifically the pasture -land aloni; the Mediterranean (Josh, xii, 19; Cant, ii, 2; Isa. xxxiii, 9 ; .xxxv, 2 ; Ixv, 1), perhaps that of Gilead (I Cliron. V, 16).
S. Slie]>heldh (tnbS'J), a loio country, specifically the maritime plain ("vale," Deut. i, 7; Josh, x, 40; 1 Kings X, 27 ; 2 Chron. i, 15; "valley," Josh, ix, 1; xi, 2, 16; xii, S; XV, 33; Judg. i, 9; Jer, xxxii, 44; "plain," Jer. xvii, 26; Obad. 19; Zech. vii, 7; "low plains," 1 Chrnii. xxvii, 2S; 2 Chron. ix, 27 ; " low country ," xxvii, 10 ; xxviii, 18; "Sephela," 1 Mace, xii, 3^).
9. Midbar ("laTD), a mlderness in the sense of an open tract of unoccupied common, iu general a "desert" or " wilderness" (Exod. iii, 1 ; v, 3 ; xxiii, 31 ; Numb, xx, 1 ; Deut. xxxiii, 10 ; 2 Chron. xxvi, 10 ; Job xxiv, 5 ; Isa. xxi, 1; Jer. XXV, 24, etc.); specifically that of Sinai (Nnmb. xxxiii, 15, 10, etc.; "south," Psa. Ixxv, 6); sometimes (with the art.) fir Arabia in general, or fir those parts of it which extend into Palestine (Gen. xxi, 14; Josh, viii, 15; Judg. i, 16).