Carriage (Hastings' Dictionary)

In the AV this word occurs five times in the OT, once in the NT, and four times in the Apocrypha, but never in the sense which the word bears in modern English. It denotes regularly 'something carried,' or, as we should saj', ' baggage.' The passages are arranged below according to the various Heb. or Gr. words rendered by carriage. (1) 1 S n'^"". Is 10^''??, LXX ffftein}— a word of very wide signification, and corresponding roughly to tne English 'things.' In the first place in Samuel tlie ref. is to the present brought by David to his brothers in Saul's army, in the second and in Isaiah to the b.iggage of an army. RV ' And David left his l>aggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage.' 'At Alichmash he layeth up his baggage.' (2) Is 40' c;'niKi'j = yo«r carried things, of the Babylonian ijols, which the priests were accus- tomed to carry about in solenm procession. RV ■ The things that ye carried about. CARSHKNA CASLUHIM 357 (31 Jg 18=' .1713511, LXX tA /Jdpos, but A (tt;!- KTTitriy airroD) ttji' (vSolov = the heavy, or perliaps the prcriniis goods, refemn;^ to the baggiiye of the Danites, or more probably to the images which iiaii been stolen out of Micah's house. liV 'the goods.' (4) Ac 21" ' IVe took up our carrinijes' is the translation of iTriffKcvaffinevoi. The (Ireek word expresses the completion of the preparations neces- sary for the journey from Ciesarea to Jerusalem ; but others understand the term of the loading of the Imjrgage animals. liV 'We took up our baggage,' liVm 'made ready.' In tlie Apocr\-]iha, carriage, i.e. baggage, repre- sents iirapTia. ( Jth 2" 3'") and d7ro<T«w) ( 1 Mac SP- »»). In the margin of the A V the phra.ses, ' the place of the carriage,' and ' in the midst of liLs carriages,' occur as alternative renderings to the word 'trench' found in the te.xt of 1 S 17" 26». The Heb. expression is '9;i'? (LXX 17" (rrpory- ydXiaaii ; 20' Xa/j-vqi'Ti), and denotes the circular 'laager' or barrica<ie formed by the baggage and baggage-wagons round tlie place of encampment. RV 'the place of the wagons.' RVm ' barricade.' Even here ' carriage ' is probably not to be under- stoo<l in the modem sense of ' a vehicle.' See Camp. H. A. White.