Ehi (Hastings' Dictionary)

The eponym of a Benjamite family, Gn 46-', where, however, cjo biii; 'ntj must be corrected after Nu 26'"- to c;5-'i dtck. ' The cor- ruption was perhaps prior to the adoption of the square character ; o and c in the old script being similar and liable to confusion. It may, however, be due to mere transposition of the two letters ' (Ball in Haupt's Genesis, ad loc.) See further AuiRAM, and cf. Gray, Ueb. Prop. Names, 35. J. A. Selbie.

EHUD (■i>n(<), son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, delivered his jicoplo by a bold exploit from Eglon, king of Moab, who had captured Jericho and oppressed Israel for eighteen years. This history is given in >Ig 3'-''. The compiler has furnished an introduction and conclusion in bis usual manner (Vy, u-i6a. 80b) . ti,e narrative itself (vv."''"'') is one of the most ancient in the book, and a cliaracter- istic specimen of the best style of Heb. story- telling.

Doubts have been cast upon the name of the hero, because Ehud and Gora elsewhere are names of Benjamite clans. Gera is a son (Gn 4C-') or grandson (1 Ch 8'), Ehud is a great-grandson (1 Ch 7'°), of Benjamin (Noldeke, Untersuch. p. 179 f.; Stado, Gesrh. i. C8). But E. may well have been the name of the hero before it was the name of the dun called after him (Budde, liicht. u Sam. 100). Wellliausen {Gott. Nachriohten. 189o, p. 480) suggests that ninx may be an abbreviation of ii.TZN in 1 Ch 8'.

G. A. Cooke.