Pacal

Amongst those to whom David is said (I S W^) to have sent a share of the spoil after his return to Ziklag, are mentioned 'they that were S;-;:'; but probably the last word ought to be corrected, after the LXX {iv Kap/iTj\<f), to fc^;?, 'in It seems belter to take this word as the voc of f.taipo<, one of the LXX translations of nubiil, 'fool' (cf. the practical atheist of Is 326), than as a tmnaliteration of the ptcp. T^o 'murmiirinp,' refractor}',' Nu 2(|io (LXX iTiiili7!)

, there bein^ DO evidence that the latter was a common Heb. word of opprobrium. (See FooL). t On this p.irticular point the present writer is indebted to a private letter from Dr. Neubauer. Carmel (of Judah, Jos 1.5", 1 S 25-). So Well hausen. Driver, Budde, Lohr, 11. P. Smith, et al.