Collar (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. The collars of Jg 8=« (rfs-pj) are golden ear-drops, KV pendants. 2. The ref. in Job 30'" is to the collar-band (nj) of the under- garment or coat [kcthuneth). In v." the symptoms of high fever ar<j pierced bones and gnawing pains ; hence in v.'" the complaint that his large outer- gannent or cloak (i?'3^), in which he vainly tried to >leep, had become so completely soaked through with the fever-sweats that it clung around him like tlie collar of his coat. It is frequently assumed that the reference is to Job's emaciated condition, which causes his outer garment to cling to him like the neck of the close-fitting inner tunic. Davitlson suggests that the idea may be that through Job's writhing under his pains Lis clothes are twisted lightly about him. Dillinann finds a reference to the unnatural swelling of Job's body V)V elcph.Tntiasis, till his garment becomes tight like a collar. G. M. Mackie. COLLECTION occurs in AV of 2 Ch 24«- » as tr" of nN;;'T [nias'eth), and in 1 Co 16' as tr° of \oyla (login, a drr'. Xe7.) [all]. In OT the reference is to the tax prescribed in Ex 30'^- " (P), and IIV more suitably tr" 'tax.' The NT reference is to the collection made by St. Paul in the Gentile Churches for the poor at Jerusalem. KV retains the word and nUo substitutes 'collections' in v. for AV 'gatherings' (where the same Gr. word occurs in the plur. \oyl<u). See COMMUNION 3, Triuute- MoNEV. J. A. Selbie. COLLEGE (nj;'5; LXX 2 K 22" luiatyi; 2 Ch 34'^-' fj.ao.(java.l ; Zcph 1'" iitb riji Stirripas ; Vulg. in scciind^i). — This word properly denotes the 'second quarter' of the city; KV 'the second quarter,' m. 'Heb. Mishneh' — comp. AVra 'in the second part' j in 2 Ch ^i-' AVm. gives also ' the school.' I'lom Zeph 1'", where the term occurs again (AV 'the second'), it appears that this quarter of Jerusalem was not far from the Fish- gate, which lay on the north or north-west of the city (Neb '.¥ l^J'"). It was perhaps first enclosed within the walls in the time of Mana.sseh (2 Ch .33'^). Probably the 'second tiuarter ' lay to the west of the temple-mount, in the hollow between this and the northern portion of the western bill, the modern Sion. It would thus occuiiy the upper end of the Tyropccan Valley (comp. Jos. Ant. XV. xi. 5). The Targ. Jonathan on 2 K 22' rcmlers by n-j "<!/'"'■ •■'• ' hou.so of instruction.' This Jewish traill- tion is clearly the origin of the rendering ' college ' 454 COLLOP COLOSSIANS ill the AV. It is doubtless due to the influence of tlie post-biblical Ileb. word Mishna, which, mean- ing originally ' repetition,' 5evT^pu(ns, came to signify the doctrine of the law, and especially the oral law. H. A. WuiTE.