Parbar (Hastings' Dictionary)

A colonnade (it is supposed) on the W. side of the outer temple-court, mentioned in 1 Ch 26" as a place at which six of the gatekeepers were stationed, four apparently outside, at the ‘cause- way’ (v."8), and two in the ‘Parbar’ itself.

The account purports to be a description of the arrange- ments made by David, but in reality it refers to those of the Chronicler’s own time, as the word Parbar alone is sufficient to show; for this is certainly not a native Hebrew word, and to all appearance it is Persian. As Ges. (7'/es.) observed, ‘parbar’ agrees closely with the Pers. parwdr (ace. to Ges.

from par ‘light,’ and -δᾶγ a termi- nation meaning ‘ possessing’), a swmmer-house or open kiosk ; and so it is supposed to have found its ay f into late Hebrew—like apaddna, for instance, in Dn 11“—with the sense of a sun-lighted portico or colonnade. What is generally explained as the same word, in a form exactly eg to the Persian, occurs in the plur.

(ὙΠ; LXX φαρουρειμ) in 2 K 23", where the horses given by the kings of Judah to the sun are said to have stood ‘ by the chamber (nz) of Nethan-melech the eunuch, which was in the colonnades.’* In the Targums (occasionally) and in the Mishna, etc., parwdr occurs in the sense of the suburbs of a city (e.g. of Jerusalem), probably (as Ges. observed) because in Oriental cities, as with us, such suburbs would en summer-houses of the wealthy. This usage is the source of AV ‘suburbs’ (cf. Targ.

xm») in 2 K 23", and of RV ‘precincts’ For a conjectural site, of. Schick’s art. on ancient Jerus., ZDPYV, 1894, p. 13, with the accompanying Plan. VOL. ΠῚ —-43 consist eer of the o PARCHMENT (2 K 23", and marg. of 1 Ch 26'); but the sense thus obtained is not suitable in either passage.

By what means, however, a Persian word can have reached Judah before the Exile (2 K 23), is difficult to understand: if this explanation of the word in 2 K 23" is correct, the text would seem to have been adjusted to post-exilic 6. 5. i DRIVER.