Paseah (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. A descendant of Judah, 1Ch 4” (B Βεσσῆε, A Φεσσή). 2 The father of Joiada, who repaired the old gate, Neh 35 (Φασέκ). It is pols: however, that ‘ Paseah’ here has not an individual but a family sense, as in—3. The eponym of a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerub- babel, Ezr 2° (B Φισόν, A baoh)=Neh 75 (B Φεσή, A Φεσσή, § dah). The name appears in 1 Es 5% as Phinoe. in particulars belongeth to the first author of the story’ (ἐν τοῖς κατὰ pépos); 11” ‘Of the particulars . .. tocommune with you’ (ὑπὲρ τούτων κατὰ μέρος, RV ‘in detail’), Cf. Shaks. J Henry JV. τι. iv. 414—‘ Examine me ΠΡΟΣ the particulars of my life’ ; and JJ Henry IV. tv. ii. 36— I sent your grace The parcels and particulars of our grief.’ ‘Particularly’ has the same meaning as ‘in par- ticular.’ It occurs in Ac 21' ‘He declared par- ticularly what things God had wrought’ (ἐξηγεῖτο καθ᾽ ὃν ἕκαστον ὧν ἐποίησεν ὁ θεός ; RV ‘He rehearsed one by one the things’); and He 95 ‘Of which we cannot now speak particularly’ (xara μέρος, RV ‘ severally ’). Be ion; Hist. 115—‘ This present Writ is to make answer particularlie to everie Article.’ The adj. is used in the first Prol. to Sirach, ‘It {Sirach] containeth . . . certain particular ancient godly stories of men that pleased God’ (μέρικάς Twas παλαιὰς θεοφιλεῖς ἱστορίας), where the meaning is evidently ‘special’ (Vul . peculiares), as in Bunyan, Holy War, p. 142, (Phen did Emmanuel address himself in a particular Speech to the Towns- men themselves.’ J. HASTINGS.