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JERAHMEEL (Heb. " May God pity ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JERAHMEEL (Heb. " May See also:God pity ")  , in the See also:Bible, a. See also:clan which with See also:Caleb, the See also:Kenites and others, occupied the See also:southern See also:steppes of See also:Palestine, probably in the See also:district around See also:Arad, about 17 M . S. of See also:Hebron . It was on friendly terms with See also:David during his See also:residence at Ziklag (I Sam. See also:xxx . 29), and it was apparently in his reign that the various elements of the See also:south were See also:united and were reckoned to See also:Israel . This is expressed in the chronicler's genealogies which make See also:Jerahmeel and Caleb descendants of See also:Judah (see DAVID; JUDAH) . On the names in 1 Chron. ii. see S . A . See also:Cook, Ency . Bib., See also: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 . See also:

Samuel (q.v.) was of Jerahmeel (I Sam. i . 1; See also:Septuagint), and the consecutive Jerahmeelite names Nathan and Zabad (i Chron. ii . 36) have been associated 'with the See also:prophet and officer (Zabud, 1 See also:Kings iv . 5) of the times of David and See also:Solomon respectively . The association of Samuel and Nathan with this clan, if correct, is a further See also:illustration of the importance of the south for the growth of biblical See also:history (see KENIrES and RECHASIrss) . The See also:Chronicles of Jerahmeel (M . Gaster, See also:Oriental See also:Translation Fund, 1899) is a See also:late See also:production containing a number of apocryphal Jewish legends of no See also:historical value . (S .

A . C.) Similarly a Syrian See also:

story tells how the See also:Druses came to slay See also:Ibrahim See also:Pasha's troops, and desiring to spare the' Syrians ordered the men to say gamal (See also:camel) . As the Syrians pronounce the g soft, and the Egyptians the g, hard, the former were easily identified . Other examples from the See also:East will be found in H . C . See also:Kay, Faman, p . 36, and in S . See also:Lane-See also:Poole, History of See also:Egypt in the See also:Middle Ages, p . 300 . Also, at the Sicilian See also:Vespers (See also:March 13, 1282) the See also:French were made to betray themselves by their See also:pronunciation of ceci and ciceri (Ital. c like tch; Fr. c like s) .

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