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Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ns of Levi. Mephibosheth is called theson of Saul, though he was the son of Jonathan, 2 Sam. xix. 24: soGen. xlvi. 22. Zechariah, the grandson of Iddo (Zech. i. 1), is calledhis son, Ezra v. 1. Son is thus used for any descendant, as fatheris used for any ancestor, 1 Chron. 1. 17. Brother is used in the same way for any collateral relation. It^ ^ is thus applied by Abraham to Lot, who was his nephew. In one instance, too, the descendants of a man who mar-ried a daughter of Barzillai are called, from the name of their maternalancestors father, the children of Barzillai.b In the same way, Jairis called the son of Manasseh, because his grandfather had marriedthe daughter of one of the heads of Manasseh. Mary is also thoughtto have descended from David in this way; so that our Lord wagDavids son, not only through his reputed father, but by direct descentthrough his mother. •» Gen. xiv. 16; xxix. 12, 15: so the word is probably used in Jolmvii. 3: Gal. i. 19.b Ezra ii. 61: Neh. vii. 63.
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GEORGE FOX. Born 1624. Died 1690. 21 Q FIRST RULE—HEBRAISMS. 183 278. A knowledge of these last rules of speech will oftencorrect apparent contradictions. Athaliah, for ex- Apparentample is called in 2 Kings, viii. 26, the daughter of SadicOmri, and in ver. 18, she is called the daughter of eorrecte<1Ahab. She was really Ahabs daughter, and Omris grand-daughter. See, also, 1 Kings xv. 10, and 2 Chron. xiii. 2, and1 Chron. iii. 15, compared with 2 Chron. xxxvi. 9, 10. 279. There are other peculiarities, semi-Hebraisms, whichneed to be named. (a). Some numbers in Hebrew are used for an harmesfuseindefinite number. Ten, for example, means several, as well as that precise num-ber, Gen. xxxi. 7: Dan. i. 20. Forty means many. Persepolis is called in Eastern language,the city of forty towers; though the number is much larger. Thisis probably the meaning in 2 Kings viii. 9, where Hazael is said tohave brought as a present to Elisha forty camels burden of the goodthings of Damascus. This

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