Quarrel (Hastings' Dictionary)

Like Lat. querela, from which it comes, through Old Fr. querele,' 'quarrel' origin- ally meant a complaint or cause of complaint. Thus Hall, Works, ii. 155, ' It was thy just quarrell, O Saviour, that whiles one Samaritane returned, nine Israelites were healed, and returned not.' Then it was used for any cause or case that had to be pursued or defended, as in Golding's Calvin's Job, 559, ' Although Job had a just and reasonable quarrell, yet did he farre overshote himself; and p. 573, ' Sometymes we will be ashamed to main- teyne a good quarrell, bycause wee see that men do but make a mocke at it.' This is the sense in which the word is used in AV : Lv 2G^ ' I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant' (RV 'execute the venge- ance ') ; 2 K 5' ' See how he seeketh a quarrel ag.aiust me' (RVra ' an occasion ') ; Mk 6" ' Herodias had a quarrel against him' (AVm 'an inward grudge,' RV 'set herself against him,' Gr. ivc'ix^v aiTif) ; except in Col 3" ' If any man have a quarrel against any,' where the meaning is rather 'com- plaint,' as AVm and RV; Gr. /io/n^?). The verb ' to quarrel ' occurs in AV Preface in the transit, sense of oppose, object to. Cf. Melvill, Diary, 370, 'At the quhilk word the King in- terrupts me, and crobbotlie quarrels our meitting, alleagin" it was without warrand and seditius.' The modem intrans. meaning of the verb is found in Sir 31'", and RV introduces it at Pr 20». J. Hastincs. QUARRY In 1 K 6' it is said that the temple was built of stone made ready 'at the quarry' (RV ; AV has 'before it was brought thither,' RVm 'when it was brought away'). The MT, whose correctness is not above suspicion, is [yX y;5 r^zh\:f • LXX XWots ditpoTiS/iois apyois ; Vulg. de lapidihus dolatis atque perfectis. The rendering ' nuarry ' or ' quarrying' for yr? is probably correct (cf. the use of the root yoj in Hiphil in 1 K 5"' ti-"g- "1 and Ec 10«), and the meaning is that the liuge stones spoken of in 5^' '"' were dressed before leaving the quarry (for this practice cf. Benzinger, Hill). Arch. 237). For the process of quarrying as carried on by the Egyptians in early times, see Maspero, Dawn of Cioilization, p. 383 f., and passim. It is evident that 1 K 6' breaks the con- nexion, and this verse is probably a later addi- tion (so Benzinger, Kittel, et al.). The statement contained in it gave rise to a variety of fanciful legends tending to the glorification or the temple and its builder (see Benzinger, Comm. nd lor.). The only other occurrence of 'quarry' in the EV is in j'g 3'"-''". According to v.'', Ehud turned back from ' the quarries that were by Gilgal,' and after the assassination of Eglon he ' escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries,' v.". AVm and RVm oiler as an alternative renclcring 'graven images'; LXX has rd yXinrrd ; Vulg. in V?' ' reversus de Galgalis, iibi erant idola,' in v.'"' ' Locum iddlonim.' The Hebrew is o''?'C?, which is used as plural to S;?, and is employed of images of gods in wood, stone, or metal, Dt 7'-" 12", Is 21" 30", 2 Ch 34. Moore, who considers that ' quarries ' is an unwarranted translation, proposes •The Bi^elling haa been OMiniilatHl to the difltinct wor>l 'quarrel, a square-headed crossbow bolt (Low IjaUfptadrrlhn-') ISO QUAETUS QUEEN rendering ' siiiJ ptnred stones (prohably rude stone inia;;es:).' They may be the same as tlie stones whic-h, according to popular tradition, Joshua erected to commemorate (he passage of the Jordan (Jos 4-'°), or, possibly boundary stones, marking tlie last Moabite outijost (of. Jg 3="). See, further, Budde ('Kichter' in Kurzer Hdcom. ad loc), who thinks the PMlt7n probably marked the Jordan ford at GUgal, and tliat the ford was known by this name. For Jos 7° (RVm) see Shebakim. In Is 51' -fi2 rc^; (lit. ' excavation of a pit ') is used lor quarry in a fig. sense : ' Look unto the rock wheuce ye were he\\Ti, and to the hole of the pit (ei's rbv ^ddvvov tov \iiKKov) whence ye were digged. On a Rabbinical conceit regarding this passage see rKTER (FiR.ST Epistle of) in vol. iii. p. 795''. See, further, art. STONE. J. A. Selbie.