Identifier: comprehensivedic00smit (find matches)
Title: A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893 Barnum, Samuel W. (Samuel Weed), 1820-1891, ed
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Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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i-ties of Bagdad is its race of white asses, which aresaddled and bridled for the conveyance of passen-gers. . . . that they are large and spirited, and havean easy and steady pace. In Deut. xxii: 10 plough-ing with an ox and an ass together was forbidden,probably because they could not pull pleasantly to-gether on account of the difference in size andstrength ; perhaps also this prohibition may havesome reference to the law given in Lev. xix. 19 (com-pare 2 Cor. vi. 14). The ass was not used for food.The Mosaic law considered it unclean, as notdividing the hoof and chewing the cud. In extremecases, however, as in the great famine of Samaria,when an asss head was sold for eighty pieces ofsilver (2 K. vi. 25), the flesh was eaten.—2. Athon(A. V. she-ass, ass) := the common domesticshe-ass (Gen. xii. 16, xlix. 11, A. V. ass, &c.)Balaam rode on a she-ass (Num. xxi. 23, &c). Theasses of Kish which Saul sought were she-asses (1Sam. ix. 3, &c). The Shunammite (2 K. iv. 22, 24)
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Syrian Wild Ass (Asians ITemippus\—Specimen in ZoologicalGardens, London. rode on one when she went to seek Elisha. She-asses formed the special charge of one of DavidsoflBcers (1 Chr. xxvii. 30).—3. Ayir (A. V. foal,ass colt, young ass, colt) = a young ass(Gen. xxxii. 16, A. V. 15, foals, xlix. 11, A. V.foal ; Judg. x. 4, xii. 14; Job xi. 12; Is. xxx. 6,24; Zech. ix. 9). Sometimes this is spoken of asbeing old enough for riding upon, for carrying burdens, and for tilling the ground.—4. Pere (A. V. wild ass) = a species of wild ass (Gen. xvi. 12,A. V. wild man, literally wild-ass man ; Ps.civ. 11; Job vi. 5, xi. 12, xxiv. 5, xxxix. 5, firstclause; Hos. viii. 9; Jer. ii. 24, xiv. 6; Is. xxxii.14). Hosea compared Israel to a wild ass of thedesert,—5. ^Arod (A. V. wild ass ) occurs only inthe latter clause of Job xxxix. 5 ; but in what respectit differs from the Pere (mentioned in the former 76 ass clause ; see above) is uncertain. The Chaldee pluralArddayyd (A. V. wild asses) oc

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