Engraving (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. nyin hilrr,sheth. Ex 31» 35"- ■"« [nnij in Ex 32'" is prob. text, error tor cnn, cf. Jer 17']. 2. nns pittiinh, Ex 28"- "• • 39'- s". Zee 3" (cf. 2 Ch 2«- '"), 1 K 6», Ps 74«. 3. n^ippo mi/da nth, 1 K 6'»-=»-« V\^i. npT': mfhuHeh, 1 K (i" (cf. Is 49", Ezk 8'" '23'«; Job 13-''). 8. x<ip"7Ma. Ac 17^. Of these terms, the first possibly refers to the artistic skill of the worker, and the others to indicate the process or result of etching, punching, gouging, relief, etc. The material used was stone, wood (2S5"=lCh 14'), metal (IS 13'"), and jewels (Ex 28"). The ellect sought was either that of engraving into tlio surface, as in the signet- ring, and the jewels of the high jiriest's dress, m that of relief liy the removal of the surrounding material, as in the cherubim carvings on the temide doors. The incisions made by the graving-tool (o-in. Ex 32) gradually led to ornamental inlaying in • Tlic Or. (Iu^wT«). which occurs oniy here in NT, ifave the late I,iit. iffi/(o/w. whence our V.i\^. word imp. An 'imp il o^i^^ a ^ratl, an Piert Plowman, v. 137 — ' I waa Bum-t\-mc a frere. And the Oouent«s [Convent's} Cianiyner, for to gralto yntpea.' So an imp of Satan is a graft, ecion, child of the devil. 704 EN-HADDAH ENOCH metal, and to mosaic of marble, ivory, and mother- nf- pearl in palaces (Ps 45°). WOOD, JTORT, AlfD METAL •RNGRAVINO. The final form of en^aving, amounting to com- plete separation, was that of tlie i:s (Arab, fasl) graven image (see Carving). LlTBRATURK. — Benzinger, Ileb. Arch. 2.'>5ff.; Wilkinson, Anc Egyp. iL 337; Herod, vii. 69; Mullcr, Uilb. d. Archaol. der Kuntt, i 311. G. M. MaCKIE. EN-HADDAH (.Tin py), Jos IQ^". — A city of Tasachar noticed with En-gannim and Remeth. It is perhaps the present village Kefr Adh&n on the edge of the Dothan plain, W. of En-gannini. See SWP vol. li. sheet viii. C. K. CONDKR.