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STORAX. r. It ir plausible to find the rtorax (so
RVW) mentioned in Gen. 3037 as ill?$, iibneh, where
EV has POPLAR (pa~Aoc crypak;~w : Ar. Iubnti
=iforax). In Hos 4x3. however, the libneh is mentioned
as a shady tree : this does oot suit the rtorax,
which ir a mere bush. The shrub called storax hy the
ancients (Diosc. 179 : Plin. h'N12r11s) is the S W r
officinoiii, a showy shrub covered with a profurion of
white flowers. found throughout Syria and ralestine
and abundantly in the hill regions of Gilead, Carmel.
Tabor, Galilee, etc. , and other places (FFP ~ 5 ~ ) .
Srurax exuded a gum which was uscd for incenx(and alro for
medicinal turporer), &d at anearly period formed animpqrlznt
arficlc ofghanici=n frxde. If is to be arefully dirf~ngu~rhed
from the modzm article. which i- the produst of the Lrqwid-
b I . Laesrde (Mytth. 1134) has suggcrred with
great probability that the name Storax ir dcr~vcd from the Heh.
*%. ?JH('hnlm'): hut whether the two words denote the m e
thing is doubtful. See BALM, D 1.
2. RVxnZ- also giws 'storax' in Gen. 3715 431. for
nli>?, nZh3'th (after Aq. criipoi [in bth], Sym. orlipat,
and Vg. rtmx [in 43r.], which was adopted by
Bocharti: ,. EV, . however, has SPICERY. SPICES i0.u.i. ,. ,
More probably (50 RV~S.) the gum intended ir the
Tragacmth (Ar. nafid'a. Syr. ankoth ail&, cp Low. 24).
which is the resinous sum " of the Aitrorolur cummifir.
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of which numerous species exist in alertm me.
Like (7s. (in connection wirh which it occurs), tragscanthwas
a. articl;'of commerce imported to Egypt (sccordi!,g to Eherr,
Both Lhe White 1Ciconxn nliini and the Black Stork
(C. nigm) are found in Pnlestine.
The White Stork is a well-known visitant to Europe.
and is occarionnllv, thoueh " rarelv. seen in Great Britain :
in Palestine it is usually met with during the month of
April (Jer. 87). on its way N. to its breeding-places from
its winter qriarterr in Central and S. Africa. It is
regarded as a sacred bird and never molested, and in
Many legends nnd.storier have grouped ihemrelves
around this bird.
The Black Stork has a black head, neck, and back :
if winters in Palestine, and, avoiding the habitations of
man, frequents the deserts and plains, especially in the
neighbourhood of the Dead Sea. As a rule it lives in
stnall flocks and breeds on trees or rocks : in thesummer
it migrates northwards. A. E. 5.
STORY WEITER (o [acl TA npocn~nro~~a),
I Esd. 217.
See KEHOM, 5.
STRAIT OF JUDEA (TOY nptoNoc. . . THC
loyAalac), Judith 39. See JUDEA.
STRANGER AND SOJOURNER
SWGER AND SOJOURNER. Thir phrare.
together with 'stranger or sojourner' and 'sojourner
Terms, or st~anger,',,is used by AV to translate
P's phrare 2Wlnl l$ ; RV more consistently
has ssojournrr' for $rn uniformly. y, gir and
=pin, r6rhabh denote a resident alien or piro6xor, a
foreigner settled for a longer or shorter time under
the protection of a citizen or family, or of the state: ar
dirtingiiirhed from 9~11, ben-zFkfiiir, or -??:, nohh'hri
(fem. n',~), which simply denote a foreigner. ?!, air,
T.:.
is a more general term, including both foreigner and
stranger. It ir used in Nu. 1640 of anyone strange to
-i.e., not belonging to-the priestly clan. It is often
used of persons who might also be called nohri, Is. 11.
The distinction between @,,- and tnrhdbh will be considered
later ($ 11 J). The verb ,?>, giw, is sometimes
a denominative of g2r in its technical sense of resident
alien, and sometimes has the more eeneral senseof obzde.
I. Forrigneri, otkr than gErrm (itricily io-called), in
the /and @ /imcl.-Jud. 1~92~ s7-j6 (Jl) make if clear
a. that Canaanite clans maintained themof
anaan ites, selve in the land long after the settle-
.%gyplam, zgz, thc word has been round ,n Egyptian), and dso
to Tyre (Ezek. 27 17, ree Co. adloc.). There is no reference to
ment. At first, many of there clans
this product in the ?"3? n3+ of 1K. 20 rj 13.39 r (EVnz
3t00d to the Israelite tribe in the ordinary relations of
'hourc of hi3 spicery'; ;o Aq. Sym., vg.), on which xe
Tne~suav.
neighbouring independent stater. In conquered dislrictr
3. AV har 'rtorar' for viamnf in Ecclur. 24 x i ; but RV (u surviving Canaanites would be reduced to slavery.
EV in I Kx. 3034) har Si~crs (r..u.). The fr?grsnr resin in. Where, however. they were too nunierous, or submitted
fended may perhaps be the gum twacmthmentloned above (2).
on conditions, they were employed in formd labour
STORE CITIES, S T O HOUSES ~ (nila~ni. Ex. (ioruie), mi. . . ci..~, Jud.128. Thus in Josh. 927, JE. the
I .I I K 9 rg, etc. see CITY (J 1, PITHOM, 4.' Gibeoniter are spoken of as tempie-servants. l+obably
~ ~ to winckler ~ (GIs ~ ZIO), the ~ d i the ~ ~Wtus ~ of such subject-clans war similar to that of
the goucrnor.' (Ass. iainu, plur. iahndtu; Phan. jm: cp the