JERAHMEEL, (Heb. " May God pity ")

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JERAHMEEL, (Heb. " May God pity ") , in the Bible, a. clan which with Caleb, the Kenites and others, occupied the southern steppes of Palestine, probably in the

district

DISTRICT

around Arad, about 17 M. S. of Hebron. It was on friendly terms with

David

during his residence at Ziklag (I Sam. xxx. 29), and it was apparently in his reign that the various elements of the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

were united and were reckoned to

Israel

ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

. This is expressed in the chronicler's genealogies which make Jerahmeel and Caleb descendants of Judah (see

DAVID

; JUDAH).
On the names in 1 Chron. ii. see S. A. Cook, Ency. Bib., col. 2363 seq. Peleth (v. 33) may be the origin of the Pelethites (2 Sam. viii. 18; xv. 18; xx. 7), and since the name occurs in the revolt of Korah (Num. xvi. I), it is possible that Jerahmeel, like Caleb and the Kenites, had moved northwards from Kadesh. Samuel (q.v.) was of Jerahmeel (I Sam. i. 1; Septuagint), and the consecutive Jerahmeelite names Nathan and Zabad (i Chron. ii. 36) have been associated 'with the prophet and officer (Zabud, 1 Kings iv. 5) of the times of David and Solomon respectively. The association of Samuel and Nathan with this clan, if correct, is a further

illustration

ILLUSTRATION

of the importance of the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

for the growth of biblical history (see KENIrES and RECHASIrss). The Chronicles of Jerahmeel (M. Gaster, Oriental

Translation

TRANSLATION

Fund, 1899) is a

late

LATE

production containing a number of apocryphal Jewish legends of no historical value. (S. A. C.)
Similarly a Syrian story tells how the

Druses

DRUSES
DRUSES, or DRUZES (Arab. Druz)

came to slay Ibrahim Pasha's troops, and desiring to spare the' Syrians ordered the men to say gamal (camel). As the Syrians pronounce the g soft, and the Egyptians the g, hard, the former were easily identified. Other examples from the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

will be found in H. C. Kay, Faman, p. 36, and in S. Lane-Poole, History of

Egypt

EGYPT

in the Middle Ages, p. 300. Also, at the Sicilian Vespers (March 13, 1282) the French were made to betray themselves by their pronunciation of ceci and ciceri (Ital. c like tch; Fr. c like s).

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