nation, although it appears to have been the name of a god
((
Hebrew characters), 2 Sa. 610).—11 ff. The total number of the tribes,
excluding the bastard 'Amālēḳ, is 12, as in the cases of
Israel and Ishmael (2512-16). 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.
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(Ĕlîphaz [Timna']. Rĕ'û'ēl. |
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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. |
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['Amālēḳ].
The Names.—(a) (Hebrew characters)] Known otherwise only as the name of the
oldest and wisest of Job's friends (Jb. 211 etc.), probably borrowed from
this list.—(1) (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters))] Frequently mentioned as a district of Edom
(Jer. 497. 20, Ezk. 2513, Am. 112, Ob. 9, Hab. 33), famous for its wisdom,
the home of Eliphaz (Jb. 211) 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) (Hebrew characters) ([Greek: ** ]), (3) (Hebrew characters)
((Greek characters), 1 Ch. (Hebrew characters)), (4) (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters), etc.) are quite unknown, unless
(Greek characters) be the original of Job's third friend.—(5) (Hebrew characters)] the eponym of the
Ḳenizzites, the group to which Kaleb (the 'dog'-tribe, settled in Ḥebron)
and Othniel belonged (Nu. 3212, Jos. 146. 14 1517, Ju. 113 39. 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 (Hebrew characters) (see on 147) is here described as descended from
(Hebrew characters), 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) (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters))]
'Friend of God' (?) is one of the names of Moses' father-in-law (a
Midianite) (Ex. 218, Nu. 1029), also that of a Gadite (Nu. 114 214) and of
a Benjamite (1 Ch. 98).—(6) (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters))] cf. 2 Ch. 3113.—(7) (Hebrew characters)
((Greek characters))] (cf. v.33). Also a clan of Judah (3830); cf. Nu. 2613 (Simeonite),
1 Ch. 666. 26 (Levite).—(8) (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters))] cf. 1 Sa. 169 (David's brother), 2 Sa.
2311 (one of his heroes); also (Hebrew characters) in Yeraḥmeel (1 Ch. 228. 32) and Kaleb
(244f.).—(9) (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters), 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)
(Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters), etc.)] v.i. on v.5. As an Israelite name, 1 Ch.
710 839 (Benjamite), 2310f. (Levite), 2 Ch. 1119 (son of Rehoboam). The
