Chapt (Hastings' Dictionary)

Jer 14 'Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth ' (ni:^ri, Amer. KV 'chapped,' RVm 'dismayed,' for the Heb. has both meanings). Bradley (1727) in his Farmer's iJirl. speaks of 'claiey or stiti' earth . . . subject to chap during the heat of summer ' ; but the word, which means ' cracked,' is no longer used of land. J. Hastings. CHARAATHALAN (B XapoaffaXd^ A XopA 'A9a\dp, AV Charaathalar), 1 Es 5".— A name given to a liailer of certain families who returned from Bahylon under Zeruh. But ' Char.oalhalan leading them and Allar' is diie to some perversion of the original, which has ' Cherub, Addan, Immer,' three names of places in Bab., from which the return was made (Ezr 2* pK 3i5, Xapoi/i (A yiepoi^), "Hadi-; cf. Neh 7"'). The form in 1 Es may be partly accounted for by confusion between 9 and B, and between A and A. H. St. J. Tiiackeuav.