Chimham (Hastings' Dictionary)

Probably the son (cf. 1 K 2~) of Barzillai the Oileadite, who returned with DaN-id from bevond Jordan to Jerus. after the death of Absalom (2 S 193"-). Ace. to Jer41"(^'cr«CTO;), C. ■would seem to have erected a caravanserai near Bethlehem for the benetit of those traveUing from Jerus. to Egypt ; others suppose that tlie inn was named after him as the owner of the land, and infer that C. received some land near Bethlehem from Da\id. See Barzillai. J. F. Stenning. CHIMNEY In Hos 13' 'as the smoke out of the c.,' the Heb. is 'druhhnh (^r";s), a Idtth-e, hence a latticed opening in a room whence the smoke escajjes. But in 2 Es 6'' [all] ' c' is the tr. of Lat. camimis, the very word from which c. comes ; and the meaning is not the flue or vent, but the lire- Elace or oven, ' or ever the chimneys in Sion were of (RV, after Syr., 'or ever tlie footstool of Sion was established '). This is the oldest mean- ing of the word in Eng., and is found as late as Goldsmith. Cf. Milton, L' Allegro, 111— • Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, strct<:h'd out all the chimney's len^tk. Bosks at the lire his hain- strength.' And Groldsmith, Deserted Village, 235 — * While broken tca.cups, wisely kept for shew, Rant^ed o'er the chunney, glistened in a row.' J. HA.STINOS.