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 nation, although it appears to have been the name of a god (, 2 Sa. 6$10$).—11 ff. The total number of the tribes, excluding the bastard 'Amālēḳ, is 12, as in the cases of Israel and Ishmael (25$12-16$). The sons of 'Oholibamah are, however, put on a level with the grandsons of the other two wives (so v.$18$). The list may be tabulated thus:

(a) Adah. (b) Basemath. (c) 'Oholibamah. |                         |                                    |      (Ĕlîphaz [Timna'].          Rĕ'û'ēl.                             |            |         |                    |                                    |            |         ++           |                                    |            |                  |       +—-++                +++    +-++       |       |                  |                |                   |    |                  |       |       |                  |                |                   | 1. Têmân.        2.'Ômār.   |  6. Naḥath.     7. Zeraḥ.    10. Yĕ'ûš.     11. Ya'lām. 3. Ẓĕphô.  4. Ga'tām. |  8. Šammāh.  9. Mizzāh.   12. Ḳōraḥ. 5. Ḳĕnaz.                |                    ++                    |                ['Amālēḳ].

The Names.—(a) ] Known otherwise only as the name of the oldest and wisest of Job's friends (Jb. 2$11$ etc.), probably borrowed from this list.—(1) ] Frequently mentioned as a district of Edom (Jer. 49$7. 20$, Ezk. 25$13$, Am. 1$12$, Ob. $9$, Hab. 3$3$), famous for its wisdom, the home of Eliphaz (Jb. 2$11$) and of the third king of Edom (v.$34$). A village bearing the Greek name, 15 Roman m. from Petra, is mentioned in OS, 260; but the site is now lost.—(2) ([Greek: ** ]), (3) (, 1 Ch. ), (4) (, etc.) are quite unknown, unless be the original of Job's third friend.—(5) ] the eponym of the Ḳenizzites, the group to which Kaleb (the 'dog'-tribe, settled in Ḥebron) and Othniel belonged (Nu. 32$12$, Jos. 14$6. 14$ 15$17$, Ju. 1$13$ 3$9. 11$). The incorporation of these families in Judah is a typical example of the unstable political relations of the southern tribes between Israel and Edom, a fact abundantly illustrated from the lists before us.—The once powerful people of (see on 14$7$) is here described as descended from , a Ḥorite clan absorbed in Edom (vv.$22. 40$), of which nothing else is known. The reference may be to an offshoot of the old Amalekites who had found protection from the Edomites.—(b) ] 'Friend of God' (?) is one of the names of Moses' father-in-law (a Midianite) (Ex. 2$18$, Nu. 10$29$), also that of a Gadite (Nu. 1$14$ 2$14$) and of a Benjamite (1 Ch. 9$8$).—(6) ] cf. 2 Ch. 31$13$.—(7) ] (cf. v.$33$). Also a clan of Judah (38$30$); cf. Nu. 26$13$ (Simeonite), 1 Ch. 66$6. 26$ (Levite).—(8) ] cf. 1 Sa. 16$9$ (David's brother), 2 Sa. 23$11$ (one of his heroes); also in Yeraḥmeel (1 Ch. 2$28. 32$) and Kaleb (2$44f.$).—(9) (, etc.)] only here. It is pointed out that the four names form a doggerel sentence: 'descent and rising, there and here' (KS. An. 178); but three of them are sufficiently authenticated; and the fact does not prove them to be inventions of an idle fancy.—(10) (, etc.)] v.i. on v.$5$. As an Israelite name, 1 Ch. 7$10$ 8$39$ (Benjamite), 23$10f.$ (Levite), 2 Ch. 11$19$ (son of Rehoboam). The