Parent (Hastings' Dictionary)

See FAMILY in vol. i. p. 848. PARLOUR occurs in AV as translation of three different Heb. words. 4. πρὸν, used of the room in which Eglon, king of Moab, was interviewed and assassinated by Ehud, J g 37-3. A. 25 (LXX ὑπερῷον, ef.

Ac 115 987-9 908), This was an upper storey ‘raised above the flat roof of the house at one corner, or upon a tower-like annex to the building,’ containing generally only a single apartment, thoroughly ventilated by lattice windows on all sides, and constituting the most comfortable part of the house (see Moore, Judges, PP. 96, 98, and cf.

also such passages as 1 K 178-32 K 12 40-0 Jer 2218-14, Neh 3%), Moore’s rendering ‘roof-chamber’ is much more suitable than ‘ parlour,’ which is most unfortunately retained by RV, although American RV has ‘upper room.’ 2. 75 (RV ‘guest-cham- ber,’ LXX κατάλυμα), 1 S 93. This was a room in which the sacrificial meals at the bamah were held (cf. the mention in 1 S 118 [in the LXX, according to which the MT onght to be restored—Wellh., Driver, ete.] of a lishkah also at Shiloh, near the ma $572).

suitable rendering would be ‘sacri- ficial dining-room.’ In later times the Heb. word was used for a chamber in a palace, Jer 36", or for the chambers in the Temple court in which the riests lived, Jer 353 4, Ezk 401, or for store-rooms in the second Temple, Ezr 8”, Neh 1038: 8. 3. 1, 1Ch 28", where AV tr. o'p350 O79 ‘inner par- lours,’ but RV has ‘inner chambers.’ The most suitable rendering for 779 is ‘chamber.’ The Heb. word generally connotes the idea of privacy. The LXX tr.

in 1 Ch 28" by ἀποθῆκαι. In no case is the Eng. word ‘parlour’ a very suitable tr. of the Heb., and it was formerly less suitable than now. Coming from parler, to speak (Low Lat. parabolare, to talk; Gr. παραβολή, a parable), it signified in early Eng. the public reception-room, the drawing- (= with, drawing) * On the early use of vellum see Kenyon, Palaog. : 2 δ and Banday, Studia Biblio i sean ee ee PAROUSIA room being then what is now the parlour, the private apartment of the family. J. A.

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