Ddee

This word being applied in AV with two exceptions * to the chiefs of Edom, the im- pression 18 formed that in the family of Esau this was a hereditary title, as it is in Britain now. It is, however, never a title in AV, but a general expression for ' chief,' being formed from Lat. dux (the word in the Vulg.), and the tr. of a word (qjni or 'f^^ 'alluph) which is also applied to the princes of Judah (Zee 9' 12»- «. See CHIEF, u. 3). The Heb. woni ia probably more epectflc tlmn ite Eng. equlvft.

lent, being held by Dillmaon (on On 361^) to be derived from r]7f^ «2epA, a thousand ; bo properly 'a chiliarch,' and understood by Dnver (Expos, in. ii. 9) to denote properly the leader o/ a clan,' and a& 'probably the indigenous name borne in luiom by the chiefs of the several ^uXa-t or clans ' ; while in Eng. * duke ' wal freely applied to any leader or chief of any rank and nation. Thus ' Annibal, duke of CarthoL'ineusis ' — Sir T. Elyot, The Gov^rtutur, U.

233 : Ther was a auk that hichte Theseus ' — Chaucer, Knight's TaU, i ; after whom Shaks. ilids. Nighfg Dream, l. L 20 : ' Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke !' ; Latimer {Works, i. 31) calls Gideon a duke'; and WycUf uses the word of the Messiah, Mt 2^ ' And thou, Bethleem, the lond of Juda, art not the leest among the prynces of Juda ; for of thee a duyk schal go out, that Bchal goueme my puple of Israel * ; and Select Works, ill.

137, ' Jesus Christ, duke of oure batel, tagbt us lawe of pacience, and not to feght bodily.' Between 1572 and H)?3 (that is, when AV was made) the title was extinct in England J. Hastings. DULCIMER See Music.