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 name is thought by some to be identical with that of an Arabian lion-god Yaġūṯ (though G must have pronounced not ), meaning 'helper,' whose antiquity is vouched for by inscrs. of Thamud (Rob. Sm. KM$2$, 254; We. Heid.$2$ 19, 146; Nö. ZDMG, xl. 168; Fischer, ib. lviii. 869; Mey. INS, 351 f.; on the other side, Nö. ZDMG, xlv. 595; Di. 384; Buhl, Edom. 48 f.).—(11) (, etc.)] possibly an animal name fr. = 'ibex'; but see Gray, HPN, 90$5$; cf. , Ju. 4$17ff.$ 5$24$, and , Ezr. 2$56$.—(12) ] a son of Ḥebron, and therefore a Kalebite clan in 1 Ch. 2$43$. Meyer (352$5$) traces to this Edomite-Kalebite family the origin of the Ḳoraḥite singers and subordinate officials of the second Temple, who were afterwards admitted to the ranks of the Levites, and received an artificial genealogy (Ex. 6$21. 24$, Nu. 26$58$, 1 Ch. 6$7. 22$ etc.).

15-19. The clan-chiefs of Edom.—15. On the word , v.i.—Since the list is all but identical with vv.$9-14$, we have here a clear proof of the artificial character of the family trees used in OT to set forth ethnological relations. It is not improbable that this is the original census of Edomite 'thousands' from which the genealogy of $9-14$ was constructed.—16. 'Amālēk is here placed on a level with the other branches (ct. v.$12$).

20-30. Ḥorite genealogies.—20. the inhabitants of the land] (Ex. 23$31$, Nu. 32$17$, Ju. 1$33$); cf. 14$6$, Dt. 2$12$. These autochthones are described geographically and ethnologically as sons of Sē'îr the Horiteorite], i.e., a section of the Ḥorite population settled in Mt. Se`ir, Se`ir being personified as the fictitious ancestor of the natives of the country.

15. ] G, V dux, whence EV 'duke.' The word means properly 'chiliarch,' the chief of an (= 'thousand' or 'clan'): so Ex. 15$15$, Zec. 12$5. 6$ 9$7$. Elsewhere it signifies 'friend'; and since the sense 'clan' would be suitable in all the passages cited, it has been proposed to read in each case, as well as in this ch., as the original text (Rob. Sm. JPh. ix. 90; Mey. INS, 330). Practically it makes no difference; for in any case the 'chiefs' are but personifications of their clans.—16. ] [E] om., probably a gloss from v.$18$.—18. —] G om.—19. ] G —20. ] G sing.—24b. ] The word is utterly obscure. G Θ. ; Aq. [] (see Field); [E] (Dt. 2$10$: so T$O$ ); T$J$ 'wild-asses' and 'mules'; S (?); V aquæ callidæ. If V be right (and it is certainly the most plausible conjecture for sense), $24b$ is a fragment of an old well-legend, claiming the proprietorship of these hot springs for the tribe of 'Anah (cf. Ju. 1$14ff.$). See, further, Haupt, in Ball, SBOT, 118.—30b is in the style of P.—] G.