44 George Dahl, 



having been read A). In this last instance, raXetXatas of B is doubt- 

 less to be preferred to the readings of A and the Hebrew. In 

 agreement with the B-text the Hebrew here ought probably to be 

 emended so as to read '7'''7}'7 '• It is probable that, as in 7P")3 of 

 verse 2'2, "111 H^^ of verse 23 and 1T\^ in verse 18, a district is 

 referred to. We know of no district called '^Jl'^Jl ; but the name 

 ^''pj is applied to the region on the northern border of Israel's ter- 

 ritory'". Doubtless this is the district here meant. 



The reference in verse 23 above is to "ll"! DDi'? "Ill • The 



- T ; 



jDreposition ^ of il^J? is rendered by the American Revised Ver- 

 sion (and usually) "in". The same interpretation of 7 is generally 

 given in ^^^f? (verse 23) and ^t2l^b (verse 22)'. In all these 

 cases, however, the preposition seems rather to be meant in the 

 sense of "namely", "i. e." This usage is exactly the same as that 

 foiuid in classical Arabic\ An excellent illustration of this use of 



bis found in Ezek. 44:5: vn"iin-'?:3'?T Hi.T-iTin nipH"'?:)'? 



: T T : T : •• I \ T : 



"Namely, all the statutes of the house of Jehovah and (namely) 

 all its laws". Again in Ezek. 44:9 the expression, "I3J"[5~'^^'7 

 should be rendered: "namely (or " i. e.") every foreigner". This 

 use of 'p seems to have escaped the translators of our English 

 Bible. 



In accord with this interpretation we must translate Joshua 

 12:22, 23 above: 



(22) The king of Kedesh: One\ 

 The king of Jokneam (i. e., Carmel) : One. 



(23) The king of Dor (i. e., the Heights of Dor) : One. 

 The king of Nations (i. e., the District) : One. 



' So Dillman, Kittel, Holzinger, Bennett, Steuernagel. 



^B.D.B. s.v. '^''pjl. 



2 To these instances should be added T'j'IJi''^ in verse 18. This verse 



must be emended to read tHN n"^^'*^ P^?^ l'7'O (So Bennett, Holzinger, 

 Steuernagel, et al.). 



■^ See especially Torrey, Ezra Studies, pp. 121 f., 273; Comp. and Hist. 

 Value of Ezra-Neh., p. 18; Wright, Gram. (3), 11, 151 C; Ges.-Buhl (13), 

 Handu'drterbuch, under '^ , g 8b. 



* The numeral " one" does not appear in the Greek, which is here quite 

 corrupt. 



