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JAR 
JAR 
of Paleftine; whither alfo the Hebrews could go by Tea 
only, as Spain, Gaul, Italy, Greece, and Alia Minor. Ja- 
pheth was known by the profane authors under the name 
of Japetus, which fee. 
JAPHI'A, [Heb. that which enlightens.] A man’s 
name. 
JAPH'LET, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JAPH'LETI, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
JA'PHO, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
IA'PIS, an Aitolian, who founded a city upon the 
banks of the Timavus.—A Trojan, the favourite of Apol¬ 
lo, from whom he received the knowledge of the power 
of medicinal herbs. 
JAPOTAPPTA,/. in botany. See Ochna. 
JAPYD'IA, in ancient geography, a weftern diftrifl of 
Illyrigum, anciently threefold: the firll Japydia extend¬ 
ing from the fprings of the Timavus to Iftria; thelecond, 
from the river Arfia to the river Tedanius ; and the third, 
called In a Ip in a, fituated in mount Albius and the other 
Alps which run out about Iftria. Now conftituting the 
fouth part of Carniola, and the weft of Auftrian Croatia. 
I'APYX, a fon of Daedalus, who conquered a part of 
Italy, which he called lapygia. Ovid. —A wind which 
blows from Apulia, and is favourable to fuch as failed 
from Italy towards Greece. It w-as nearly the fame as 
the Caurus of the Greeks. Horace. 
JAQ'UEMEL. See Jacmel, p. 663. 
JAQ'UET, the name of -a woman. 
JAQ'UET, a river on the fouthern fide of Chaleur Bay, 
called by the Indians Boocumkick, is about three leagues 
weft of Billi Down. Here is a fmall falmon-filhery. 
To JAR, v. n. [from eojijie, anger, Sax. or guerre, war, 
Fr. or garren, old Teutonic, to clamour.] To ftrike to¬ 
gether with a kind of Ihort rattle.—My knees tremble 
with the jarring blow. Gay. 
The rings of iron, that on the doors were hung, 
Sent out a jarring found, and hardily rung. Dryden. 
To ftrike or found untuneably and irregularly.—I perceive 
you delight not in mulic. Not a whit, when it jars lo. 
Shakefpeare. 
A firing may jar in the heft matter’s hand. 
And the moll fkilful archer mifs his aim. Rofcommon. 
To clafh; to interfere ; to afl in oppofition ; to be incon- 
fiftent.—At lalt, though long,our jarring notes agree. Saak. 
For orders and degrees 
Jar not with liberty, but well confift. Milton. 
To quarrel ; to difpute.—They mutt: be fometimes igno¬ 
rant of the means conducing to thofe ends, in which 
alone they can jar and oppofe each other. Dryden. 
When thofe renowned noble peers ofGreece, 
Through Itubborn pride, among themfelves did jar. 
Forgetful of the famous golden fleece, 
Then Orpheus with his harp their Itrife did bar. Spenfer. 
JAR,/ A kind of rattling vibration of found.—In r, 
the tongue is held ftiffly at its whole length, by the force 
of the mufcles ; fo as when the impulfe of breath ftrikes 
upon the end of the tongue, where it finds paflage, it 
lhakes and agitates the whole tongue, whereby the found 
is affected with a trembling jar. Holder's Elements of Speech. 
—Clalh of interefts or opinions 5 difeord ; debate ; 
He maketh war, he maketh peace again. 
And yet his peace is but continual jar) 
O niiferable men that to him fubject are ! Fairy Queen. 
A ftate in which a door unfaftened may ftrike the poll » 
half-opened.—The chaffering with diflenters, and dodg" 
ing about this or t’other ceremony, is but like opening a 
few wickets, and leaving them a -jar, by which no more 
than one can get in at a time. Swift. —[From giarro, Ita¬ 
lian.] An earthen veffel.—About the upper part of the 
jar there appeared a good number cf bubbles." Boyle. 
He mead for cooling drink prepares, 
Of virgin honey in the jars. Dryden. 
Warriors welter on the ground, 
W-hilft empty jars the dire defeat refound. Garth. 
Jar is ufed for a fort of meafure or fixed quantity of di¬ 
vers things. The jar of oil is from eighteen to twenty- 
fix gallons ; the jar of green ginger is about one hundred 
pounds weight. 
JAR-KE'VI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia : 100 miles eall of Kiutaja. 
JA'RA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Sma- 
land : ten miles fouth-weft of Johnkioping. 
JA'RAH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JARAMEY', an inland town of Africa, in the king-- 
dom of Yani. 
lAR'BAS, king of Gaetulia, a fon of Jupiter and Ga- 
ramantis, from whom Dido bought land to build Car¬ 
thage. He courted Dido, but the arrival of ./Eneas pre¬ 
vented his fuccefs ; and the queen, rather than marry Iar- 
bas, deltroyed herfelf. See Dido, vol. v. p. 810. 
JAR'BO, a town of Sweden, in the province of Weft 
Gothland: twenty-five miles north or Uddevalla. 
JAKBO'AS, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Weftmanland: forty-five miles welt-north-well of Stroem- 
Iholm. 
IAR'CHAS, a celebrated Indian philofopher. His fe- 
ven rings are famous for their power of reftoring old men 
to the bloom and vigour of youth, according to the tra¬ 
ditions of Philojlr. in Apoll. 
JAR'CHI (Solomon Ben), a famous rabbi, was born at 
Troyes in Champagne, in the year 1104.. During the 
preceding century, the Jews had eftablilhed in this French 
city a college or academy, in which they taught the lan¬ 
guages, medicine, and Jewilh theology, at the head of 
which was a rich merchant and learned rabbi called Ifaac 0 
who was the father of our Solomon. He bellowed upon 
his fon all the advantages of inftruflion which that femi- 
riary afforded, and initiated him in all the fciences which 
the Arabians and the Jews alone at that period fuccefs- 
fully cultivated. When Solomon had finilhed his (Indies, 
he undertook to illultrate and comment on the work of 
Rabba-Barnacham relative to rabbi Judah’s Collections 
of Talmudical Traditions. Rabba-Barnacham was prince 
of the academy of Sora, and his work was written about 
the year 32a of the Chriltian sera. Solomon’s Commen¬ 
taries upon it were received by all the Jews with much 
applaule. Afterwards he publilhed highly-efteemed glofifes- 
on the Jerufalem and Babyloniih Taimuds ; and, finally, 
he wrote literal and moral Illuftrations of the Bible, Which 
were printed in the great Bibles of Venice and Bafil, and 
were inferted, at ieaft the greater part of them, in De 
Lyra’s immenfe work on the facred volume. Rabbi Ifaai 
Athias, in the introduction to a treatife which he wrote 
in,the Spaniih language on the 613 precepts of the Jewilh 
law, fays, that Solomon has commented upon the whole 
Bible, and the whole of the Gemara, with equal brevity 
and erudition. In the preface to his Analecta Rabbinica, 
M. Reland fpeaks of him as one of the belt interpreters 
of Scripture; and fays, jhat, when any difficulties'occurred 
to him in the Hebrew text, the illuftrations of rabbi Jar- 
chi appeared more fatisfaclory to him than thole of the 
greateft critics, or any other commentator. Our author 
died at Troyes in 1180, in the feventy-fixth year of his 
age. He was buried with every mark of re Ip eft in the 
jewilh cemetery, near that city; but, when that nation 
was aftewards driven out of France, they carried his re¬ 
mains with them into Bohemia, and interred them at 
Prague. Our author’s commentaries on the Bible and 
the Talmudical writings were printed as accompaniments 
to a Hebrew Bible publilhed at Amfterdam in 166a, in 
4 ~vols. nmo. 
JARD (Francis), a French prieft of the congregation 
of the Chriftian doftrine, was born at Boulene near 
Avignon, in the year 1673 3 and died in 1768, at the ad¬ 
vanced- 
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