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SHEPHATIAH
H.-jerahmrel?) and Riblah or perhaps rather Harbel
(=the city of Jernhmerl). See RIeLaH. SHIPHMITE.
in NU. ~ 4 ~ =ivcs ~ j mrd.pp
: re* in .*.I. I"
w. belongs lo thr following word &Aa lrerd op#qha] ; u. 10
bar been adjusted roil. I,.) T. K. C.
SHEPHATIAH (il:VVd, and qil!~1~4in nos. 4, 5,
6, apparently ' Yahwb judges' [5 361. cp Uy$il] ; CI\-
+a~[e]~a [BII;\L]). [It may be safer to hold the name
to be corrupt. In I the names of David's wives and
children bring in several cares, as it ieemr, corr!iptionr
of tribal names (e.8, Abigail, Absaiom, Haggith, Abital.
Irhream, Eglah), and a name compounded with -iah
being quite isolated in this list, we are hound to explain
Shephatiah if possible as a tribal name. According to
analogy it may well be an expansion of .agd=-nsu.
..: ..:
-i.e, belonging to ZEPHATH' (see SHAPHAT). This
theory explains nil the occurrences of the name. In
z the comoanions of Sheohatiah are of ' Ierahmeelite'
SHEPHERD OF HERMAS
retically the maritime plain was inelnded in the reference
of this geographical term (re Buhl, Pat 104, n. 164).
The RY has takcn great pains ru carry out r
rendering of rhryMId by 'lowland.' Compare the follonng
pas5sgel: 111.17 Jorh. U I 1040 111x6 (61r. @B, id rawclval
'5. .a "cs.,i the .econd time), 128 ,533 Judg.19 .K.10.,
zCh.27211 1Ch 1 rj Dzl 2Br028x8 Jer. 17- (@o )*ir r.binir)
324, 38x3 Ob. 19 Zech.77 Perhaps rf RV had give" the
plural form 'lowlands ' it nught have been marc illuminnl~ue ro
the reader, for, ar G. h. Smith (4 remarks, the Scottish lowlands,
like the Shephaah, are not entirely plain, bur have lhcir
groups and ranger of hills.
SHEPHEB (lQ?),
Nu. 331, f, AV SHAPHER.
SHEPHERD OF HERMAS. Under the name of
norrrljv (P~~LOT,.shepherd'), ~ith fro," an
daIe the name of Hcrmas came to be
trBnsmiaaion connected, a book of some sire, originally
written in Greek, has come down to us
of text,
from Christian antiquity. At one time
" ereativ read. and even for a while reearded as canonical.
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if afterwards fell very much into the background with-
corruptions of ~era$n&el. With regard to 7, it must
be clear that, like the b'ne Arah and the b'ni Elam, the
b'ne Shephntiah were of Jerahmeelite origin ; cp Neh.
114, and see PEREZ. Read ' b'ne Sefsthi.' T. K. c.1
I. b. David and Abi$al (1 S. 34 I Ch. s oa&irta [Bl
o+dr. [A in Sam.1, r.+,.ar [A in Ch. and 2% s, DAVID:
9 11, n.
n. b. Mattan. who with others rousht - to out .. TeremLh in oriron
(Jer. 381461 x, &+vL" :l>,,-%,L-,,7wa.
. 1 , 1 . L Ih?nacnef,.l>x. \Ir.hxr.(s