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RIDDLE
5216J). The occurrences of Riblah ircogniied by
EV need some revision : the name should certainly
be inserted in Ezek. 6 I,, where Riblah (misread in
MT as DIBLAH: AV .Diblath'), as a boundary.
taker the place of the more usual ' Hamath,' and it
should an certainly be omitted in Nn.34~~. Here, a
most scho1nrs suppose. the ideal eastern frontier of
Canvan is described. The border, he are told, is to
go down 'from Shepham HRBLH on the L ofAin.' If
we put aside the prejudice produced by the pointing
it seems probable that 'to Harbel' ( X $ ~ X ) is
the meaning intended, and not 'to Riblnh.' The right
vocalisatlon war still known to the @ translator (drb
a.r+ap appwha ; see SHEPHAM), and also to Jeronnennd
Eusebiur, who speak (0s. 866 21417% 23254) of Arbela
or ar n point on the eastern confiner of Canaan.
The Sprober'~ Comvn. finds Harbel (more strictiy h a )
in the Hnr-banl-hermon of Judg. 33, and rupporer the
border to pass by the southern end of Mt. Hermon
near the two best-known sources of the Jordan. If
the current theory of the reference may provirionally be
accepted, let us rather say that Harbel was synonymous
with Har-baa-grrd, since 'I3aal-gad at the foot of >It.
Hermon' occurs irr the parallel passage Josh. 135 instead
of the Har-banl-hermon of Judg. 33. This view is at
any rate more plaurit~le than van Kasteren'r identifica- I
tion of Hariblnh with Halihnuh, between the YnmYb
and the ICiidy Sarrrnii (Reu, bibi, 1895, p. 33). One
of the spurs of the /ebrieih-Shiiih (Mt. Hermon) is in
fctuf called Tehel Arbel.' But it is much to be feared
that the id&tification is illusory. T. K. C.
BIDDLE occurs ~ine timer in EV (Judg. 14~2.19,
npoeh~~a; Ezek. 172. A~w~rrr~) and twice in
ExTrn& (l'rov. 16, AINI~M~. i Hab. 26, nPOBA~Mb) 85
the rendering of Heb. ;n'n, hidah.
Thanks to its freouent oarallelirm with the word
m&fdl (see ~ ~ov~n~),'hid~h'has acquired aconsiderable
range of meaning. Thus it deuoter (I) a riddle as we
underland the word-r.g that propounded by Samson
to the Philistines, Judg. 141~fl. or those with which
the Qneen of Sheba is said to have proved Solomon,
I K. 101 2 Ch. or : 1.21 , , a sententious maxim iProv.
30.5 f, erc) still affecting to preserve the for; of a
riddle but wanting its essentials-viz.. the adequate
chamcterisation of the object, and the pause before
reply. Even the riddle form may be dispensed with,
hid,ih, as in Prov. 16, denoting simply any rententiour
maxim. or as in Ps. 495 (where, however, there are
textual difficulties) the statement of a moral problem.
(3) A parable-as in Ezek.173-10, though the passage
is not pure parable, but partaker of the characterirtics
of rirldle and allegory as well on account of the
allusive a d figurative character of man). of the stirical
lays of popular history (r.g, Nu. 2 1 ~ I ~ S. 8187, cp
POBTIC~LITFKR.I.URF_. 5 4 iii.). the term hidah is
not in:lppropiintely ured to designate them in Hab. 26,
but its use in Ps. 782 is probably only due to the poet's
needing a parallel to 5.c. (4) Lastly, hiddh is ured
quite gcnrrally to denote any unusual or difficult and
pcrhapr esoteric mode of expression, Nu. 120 Dan. 823.
Bochvrf has dircourred learnedly of the use of the
1 So Furrer in Riehm'r HWB: cp Ritter, Erdkudr, 151,
pp. '59, ~83. In ZDPY Szqadiffcrcnt, and icrr plausible, idcnrrficafxon
was proposed (with 'Arbfn, 5 kil. NE. of Damarui).
410'
RIGHT, RIGHTEOUSNESS
riddle by the Hebrews at feasts,' and we could easily
believe that if our sources of information were not so
n'rrow, we should find that the Iaraeliles had some
resemblance in this department to the Arabs, with who",
thrre was ilmost a separate hrvnch of enigmatic liternture,
with many subdivirionr. Still, we hare only one
example of the riddlr in the OT-the famous one of
Samson IJudg. 14~~-'avery bad riddle,' G. F. Moore) ;
of those referred to in 1 K. 1011 . the narrator has
favoured us with no specimen ; nor did Josephus (Ant.
wii. 53) find in the Phoenician history of Dius ally
details of the riddles raid to have been sent bu Solomon
1 toHiram of Tyre, and by Hiram tosolomon (Jor. Ant.
vul. 53 [§ ,491). The information in post-biblical
writings like the Midrarh Mirhle or the and Targum to
: Esther in certainly more curious than valuable.
8 In the NT 'riddle' occurs once, I Cor. 131%. where.
to some rcholarr, the combination of 61' iebrrpou and
#v aiulypor~ appears difficult.
'Bv air (to which Origen, i. Cdr. 750 md elsewhere, iind the
MSS LP prefix xni [in Orig. rat aiui7~nm~l)may no doubt be
illurtrated by NU. 128 (S), i" c,;&., r., ob 8,' alvr ,'i.uu, which
have been explained 'in well-dc$ncd form
not in ~nd~stinct blurred outlxncs' (for tbir uhs of aiv~ypa see
origcn on Jn. 19).
We do not want the additional phmre iu aivlyprr.
I which appears somewhat to mar the antithesis; what
we look for is rather ,for now \ve see \~ith the help
of a mirror, but then face to face.' rrcuschrn would
therefore omit iv aivlypan as due to a later hand
(ZNTW, xgao, p. r8o f, cp hlinxan).
ME occurs twice in AV [Ex.Qiz lr.28~j) as the
rendering nnp which RV has '$pelt.'
See FITCHES. N. M.
EIGHT, RIGHTEOUSNESS. The Hebrew wordr
con-
Heb, terms, lected with which we have the udjec-
11ve jaddih (?'?I)'righteous,' and the
verb :=do+ (pl).) to be in the right-in Hiphil and
Pi'el, to declare a person in the right. Probably the
most original form of the root appears in the noun