Tryphosa (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Tryph^NA. ^f ''Tr^ ^rM¥l Ps 120») named along with ^:';^; r^i^riir^^V^^e^elt^a^t of the Themiodon in the mountainous d.stnct to^ tie S.E. of the Black Sea I'd.Uer A'e'/in^c^r. Assyr. inscript.ons_ (cf. Sclnad^r A . ^^ ^ Ge.oAiVW^/o«'^'^- l^^tf-W^^^'*,-^^-^.. Ed. Meyer. Del. Parad^^s, 2o0f. ^6^7, IJ^ .^^ is a sou of i. 245). In On 10 I ], 1 "j^ ' , ,, ^^^ jubal are •^"^''•'^ek wi h ?

rvK di'^^^^^^^ peoples; in Ezk associated \Mtn •'a^auj» r guHered 32- they appear as^J^^oiles « ho )i^^^^,^ Tyre severe rever.ses ; in i.ziv -•"■ . ^-P gga. 391 as in slaves and vessels of copper , •" ^^^^ ^^ ,. ^Voe among the chief '^"''^%« V.^^j.ech [LXX oU «-' adloc). ,n„io J A. SELBIE. See, further, next articla o. ft. ':' TUBIAS, TUBIENI TYRAKXUS 821 mean 'the forger of every cutting instrument of copper and iron.'

It is likely, however, that c^^ was origiiKiUy a marginal gloss to ath (Olshausen, Ball) or to I'S (Holzinger, Gunkcl), and tliat the words "N .T.T H!n (cf. vv.*'-^') have dropped out before "S;. The rendering would then be ' he was tlie father of all such as forge copper and iron.' The LXX {Q6,8e\' xai ijy a(j>vj>OKliwo%, xoXsfi'J X"-^""" <tai aiSiipov) sujjports the view of Wellh. {Comp."

305), which lias found general acceptance, that the name S;;b alone stood in the original text, tliis Tubal being the Aeruv cpotiymus of the Tibareniau metal-workers (cf. Ezk iSS'^ and the preceding art.), and that i:p, the generic name for 'smith, was afterwards added. The double name Tubal- cain would thus have its analogues in such com- binations as Jahweh, Elohim. Against Budde's reconstruction {Urgcsr/iir/,tc, 137f.

)of the text, which makes Lamech instead of Tubal -cain the subject of Ji Pin, see Dillm. and Holzinger, ad loc. Cheyne (Encyclopedia Biblica, i. col. 626 f . ) suggests that Tubal is ' a pale form of the god of tiie solar fire, Gibil or Nusku,' and that in the earliest form of the Heb. legend he was the instructor of men in the art of getting fire. J. A- Selbie.