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Rarum
returned from Babylon with Zerubbabcl
(Seh. vii.
24).
A
prince of this name
-led the
covenan~
doubtless
as
represt'ota–
ti\·e of the family (x.
19).
The same aa
Jorah
(Ezra
ii.
11'!), which also means au–
tumnal rain.
Bar1ot.
.\ J>ro;;titute (Gen. xxxviii.
15;
Lev. xxi.
7:
Deut. xxiii.
18;
Josh. ii.
1 ;
Judg. xvi.
1).
To
pia~·
the harlot or to go a whoring after,
often means. in scriptural usage,
to
go with
or llftt-r a paramour; in a figurath·e sense,
to rlPpart from Jehovah and give the affec–
tions and worship to other
gods
(Jer. ii. 20;
iii. 1 ;
Ezek. xvi.
15, 16:
xxiii.
5).
Bar-Kq'e-don. See
.\B!II.\GEDDON.
Bar'ne-pher [perhaps. panting] .
.\n Asherite, son of Zophah
(1
Cbron. vii.
361.
Ba'rod
[fear. terror].
.\ well near which Gideon pitched while
hi• adver-..ariPs, the Midianites, were
b~·
the
hill of Moreh. in the valley (Jndg. vii.
I).
It
ii!
commonly, but without certainty, iden–
tified with the fountain of Jahld, on the
northwestern side of mount Gilboa, about a
mill' east by south of Jezreel. A village ap–
pears
to have st-ood in the vicinity
(2
Sam.
xxiii.
2.>).
Ba'rocl-1w.
.\n
inhabitant of the town of Harod
(2
&om. xxiii.
25).
Bar'o-eh.
See
REAIAH.
Ba'ro-rite.
Rather Harodite
(q.
v.), as there is reason
to read this word
(1
Cbron. xi.
27;
cp. 2Sam.
xxiii. :!I>).
Ba-ro'lhe\h
[can;ng, artificers' work in
wood
or stone].
.\ town
more fullv called Harosheth of the
~~~utile.'!
or nations.· Sisera bad his
re~idenee
then' IJudg. i'··
2, 13,
16).
Former!~·
the
site,..&.;
~ught
somewhere Wl'stof the
water>~
or
)Ierum. anrl not far from the northern
Hazor.
Xu"'·
it is more commonly located at
el-Harathiyeb, a small village on the north–
ern bank of the K.ishon, at the point where
the stream, hidden among oleander bushea,
1
Jllllft't'
through a narrow gorge
to
enter the
1
plain
of .\ere.
&r».
&ndering of the Hebrew word
Kinn&r,
emitter of
a
tremulous sound; and in the
N.
T.
of the
Greek
word
Kithara,
lyre, lute. It
"... a
stringed musical instrument of the
harp
kind, small enough
to
be carried about
lb.
miL
16),
and
wa11
played with the fingers
(I
S.m.
xvi.
23)
or with
a
plectrum (Antiq.
Tii.
12, 3).
It
wall
played by Jubal, an ante–
dilariau, of the race of Cain (Gen. iv. 21),
wu
known
to
Laban (xxxi. 27),
was
the in–
atru~nt
with which David 800thed Saul
daring
his
fit!
of melancholy madness
11
Sam. :ni.l6).
The prophets and othl'rsused it
r ••
r
-red
purposes (1 S..m.
I .
5; Ps. xliii. ";
19
xlix.4),!md it wasplayed in thetemplcnrche&–
tra (1 Chron. xxv. I, 3); see Musrc.
It
was em–
ployed also in festive entertainments (Job
xxi.
12).
Even harlots sometimes carried it
about with them (Is. xxiii.
15,
lfi).
It was
the instrument which the captive Jews bung
on the Babylonian willows (Ps. cxxxvii.
2).
Two kinds were in use in Egypt: a larger, of
the
height of a man, and a smaller, which
Ancient Egyptian
Har~t.
was easilv carried. The H<•brews were ac–
quainted 'with the harp, hut it
i~
not c(•rtain
that the word
kiuuor
really means harp.
Tbe Seventy regan!.,d it ratlwr as a lyre or
lute, than a harp, for they render the Hebrew
word by
Hthara.
Bar'
row.
An implement of agriculture, consisting
of a wooden frame armed with t<•r•th of wood
or iron
(2
Sam. xii.
Jl ).
It
is drawn o\·cr
plowed land to level it aud hreuk the clods
preparatory
to
sowin.-: thl' sel.'d, and to co,·er
the seed when sown. 1t euunot be shown,
however, that the Hebrew word in
2
Sam.
xii.
31
denotes such an instrument. The
Israelites broke the
clod~
in
Mmc
manner
(Job xxxix.
10;
Ia. xxviii. 24; Hos. x .
11),
but it is douhtful whether they used a bar–
row. The modem inhabitants of Palt>stine
sometimes turn in the cattle for this purpose.
Bar'ah& [artificer's work, enchantment].
Founder of a family of :Sethinim, some
of whom returned from Babylon with
Zerubbabcl (Ezra
ii.
52; Neb. vii. 54).
Bart.
A stsg, or male deer, five years old, and
which has developed its sur-royal or crown
antler. Jt
is
the rendering of the Hebrew
'.Ayyal,
deer, a wild, clean animal
(~ut.
xii.
15;
xiv.
5: 1
Kin. iv.
23;
Ps. xlii. 1; Song
viii. 14). See
DEER.
Ba'rum
[exalted, high].
Aman of Judah, father ofAbarhel
(1
Chron.
iv. 8).