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had so many worshippers (Ac 19") that the manu-facture ol such silver shrines was very profitable.

A. SOUTEH.

DIASPORA.— See Disfebsion.

DIBLAH. — An unknown place mentioned by Ezelciel (6"). A variant (prob. correct) reading is Biblah (wh. see). R. A. S. Macalistek.

DIBLAIM. — The father of Gomer, Hosea's wife (Hos 15). See HosEA.

DIBON. — 1 . A city east of the Dead Sea and north of the Arnon, in the land which, before the coming of tlie Israelites, Sihon, Idng of the Amorites, had talcen from a former king of Moab (Nu 21M- '»). The Israelites dispossessed Sihon, and the territory was assigned to Reuben (Jos IS'- "), but the city Dibon is mentioned among those built (or rebuilt) by Gad (Nu 32S' "), hence the name Dibon-gab by which it is once called (Nu 33"). The children of Israel were not able to retain possession of the land, and in the time of Isaiah Dibon is reckoned among the cities of Moab (Is 15). In Is 15' DimoiL is supposed to be a modified form of Dibon, adopted in order to resemble more closely the Heb. word for blood (dam), and support the play on words in that verse. The modern name of the town is Dhiban, about half an hour N. of ' Ara' ir, which is on the edge of the Arnon Valley. It is a dreary and featureless ruin on two adjacent knolls, but has acquired notoriety in consequence of the discovery there of the Moabite Stone.

2. A town in Judah inhabited in Nehemiah's time by some of the children of Judah (Neh 11''). Perhaps it is the same as Dimonah (Jos 15'^) among the southernmost cities of Judah.

DIBRI. — A Danite, grandfather of the blasphemer who was stoned to death (Lv 24").

DICTIONARIES.— 1. Of the Bible.— Francis Roberts,

Clams Bibliorum (1675); Kitto, Cydopoedia of Biblical Literature (3 vols. 1862); Fairbaim, Imperial Bible Dictionary (1864-66; new ed. 1888); Smith, Diet, of Bible (3 vols., 1860-63), 2nd ed. of vol. i. only (1899), also Concise Bible Diet, and Smaller Bible Diet.; R. Hunter, Concise Bible Diet. (Gassell, 1894) ; M. G. Easton, Bible Diet. (Nelson, 1894); J. Eadie, Biblical Cyclopwdia (new ed. by Sayce, 1901); C. R. Barnes, People's Bible Encyc. (New York and Lond. 1900); J. D. Davis, Diet, of the Bible (Philad. 1898); Schaff, Religious Encydo-pcedia, or Dictionary of Biblical History, etc., based on Herzog's PRE (3 vols., T. & T. Clark, 1883); M' Clintock-Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Eccles. Literature (10 vols, and 2 vols, suppl.. New York, 1871-1887); Herzog, RealencyklopUdie f. protest. Theol. und Kirche (18 vols., 1877-88; new ed. by Hauck, 1896 £E.); Zeller, Bibl. HaridwOrterbuch Ulustriert (1893); Riehm, Handworterbuch des bibl. Altertums' (2 vols., 1893); Vigoroux, Diet, de la Bible (1895 ff.); Hamburger, Beolencyklopddie f. Bibd und Talmud (2 vols, and 3 supplements, 1875, 1892); Guthe, Kurzes BibdwOrterbuch (1903); Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols., 1901-06); Cheyne & Black, Encydopcedia Biblica (4 vols., 1899-1903); Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible (4 vols, with extra vol. and indexes, T. <fe T. Clark, 1898-1904), also Dictionary of Christ and the Gospds (2 vols., 1906-08).

2. Hebrew, Aramaic, Syrlac. — (a) Gesenius, The-saurus PhUologicus Criticus Linguce Heb. et Chald. Vet. Test. (1829-42), alsoLexicon Manuale, tr. by E. Robinson (1836) and subsequently, with additions and correc-tions from the author's Thesaurus and other works, by S. P. Tregelles (Bagster), Gesenius' HandwSrterbuch, in Verbindung mit A. Socin und H. Zimmern, bearbeitet von F. Buhl, 13th ed. 1899; B. Davidson, Analytical Heb. Lexicon (do.); Fuerst, Heb. and Chald. Lex. to the OT, tr. by S. Davidson (Williams & Norgate); Siegfried-Stade, Heb. Worterbuch zum AT (Leipzig, 1893); Brown-Driver-Briggs, Heb. Lex. to OT (Oxford,

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1906). (6) Levy, Neuheb, und Chald. WSrterbuch uber die Talmudim und Midraschim (4 vols., 1875-89): G. Dalman, Aram.-Neuheb. WOrterbuch zu, Targum, Talmud und Midrasch (1901). (c) Roediger, Chreslo-mathia Syriaca (1868); R. Payne Smith, Thesaurus Syriacus (continued by Margoliouth, 1879-1901); also A Compendious Syriac Diet., by J. Payne Smith [Mrs. MargoUouth] (Oxf. 1903); C. Brockelmann, Lex. Syriacum (T. & T. Clark, 1895).

3. Greek (esp. NT).— Liddell-Scott, Greek-English Lexicon; Robinson, Greek and English Lexicon of the NT; Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lex. of NT Oreek^ (T. & T. Clark), 3rd Germ. ed. 1881-1883; Analytical Gr. Lex. to NT (Bagster) ; Grimm-Thayer, Greek-English Lex. of the NT, being Grimm- Wilke's Clavis NT revised and enlarged by Thayer (T. & T. Clark, 1888). Deiss-mann has a Lex. in hand.

Of the Dictionaries named above, the foil, are most accurate and up to date — (o)Biblb: Cheyne and Black, Encyc, Biblica; Hastings, Diet, of the Bible, Diet, of Christ and the Gospds, and the present work. (B) Hebrew, etc. : Brown-Driver-Briggs, Heb. Lex. ; Dalman, Aram.-Neuheb. Warterbuch; Margoliouth, Compend. Syr. Diet., or Brockelmann, Lex. Syr. (c) Greek: Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lex. of NT.; Thayer, Greek-Eng. Lex. of NT. W. F. Adeney and J. S. Banks.

DIDRACHMLA, Mt 17" In marg. of EV; AV has 'tribute money,' RV correctly 'half-shekel.' See Money, § 7.

DIDYMUS.— See Thomas.

DIET. — In AV, apart from Sir 30", where it signifies 'food,' this word occurs only In Jer 52", where RV has the more correct 'allowance,' i.e. of food, as AV in the parallel passage 2 K 25'°. In Jer 40' the same word is rendered 'victuals,' but RVm 'allowance.'

DIKLAH.— The name of a son of Joktan (Gn 10", 1 Ch 1"), probably representing a nation or community. The names immediately preceding and following Diklab give no clue to its identification.

DELAIf (Jos 15"). — A town of Judah, in the same group with Lachish and Eglon. The site is unknown.

DILL, — See Anise.

DIUNAH.— A Levltioal city in Zebulun (Jos 21"). The name is possibly a copyist's error for Rimmon (rf. 1 Ch 6", Jos 19").

DDHON, DIMONAH.— See Dibon.

DINAH. — The daughter of Jacob by Leah, and sister of Simeon and Levi, according to Gn 30".

This verse appears to have been inserted by a late redactor

Serhaps the one who added the section Gn 46'-^^ (of. v.^'). [othing is said in 29"-30'' 35'™ ■, where the birth stories of Jacob's children are given, of other daughters of Jacob; but 37»5 (J) and 46' (P) speak ot 'all his daughters." P, moreover, clearly distinguishes between his daughters and his 'daughters-in-law.'

In Gn 34 we have a composite narrative of the seizure of Dinah by the Hivite prince, Shechem, the son of Hamor. The probable remnants of J's story make it appear that the tale, as it was first told, was a very simple one. Shechem took Dinah to his house and cohabited with her, and her father and brothers resented the defilement. Shechem, acting on his own behalf, proposed marriage, promising to accept any conditions of dower her father and brothers might impose. The marriage took place, and afterwards her full brothers, Simeon and Levi, slew Shechem and took Dinah out of his house. Jacob rebuked them for this, because of the vengeance it was liable to bring upon his house. Jacob thinks only of consequences here. If, as is generally supposed, Gn 49*^- refers to this act, the reprimand administered was based by him not upon the dread of consequences, but upon the turpitude of a cruel revenge. The remaining verses of ch. 34 make Hamor spokes-

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