Vagabond (Hastings' Dictionary)

This English word ia nsed in AV in the sense of wanderer (Lat. rayabundus, from vagari to wander). It is applied to Cain, Gn 4''' ' A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth ' (n;; yj, LXX rriyai' xal rp^fiuv, Symra. ivir- Taros itai d/cardtrTaTOS, Vulg. vagus etprojuqus, Tind. ' A vagabunde and a rennagate,' liV ' A fugitive and a wanderer '), 4" ; Ps 109'" ' Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg ' (vjj lyii; yi:] ; Cov.

' Let his children be vagabundes and begg their bred'). So in Jg 11' Cov. 'There resorted unto him [Jephthah] vagabundes, and weiite out with him'; Fuller, Huly War, 206, 'Being to shape their course into Palestine, they went into Prance ; showing the}- hailavertigo in their heads, mistaking the West for the East ; or else, that like vagabonds they were never out of their way ' ; Uoldsmith, Citizen, vii.

' He who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is onl}' a vagabond.' The atij. occurs in Ac 19" 'Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists' {tCiv TrtpKpxoiUrwi' 'Ion- iaiuM', i:V 'strolling'). So Melvill, Diary, 361, 'To take order with the pure r = poor] that there be not vagabund beggirs' ; Shaks. Ant. and Clcop. 1. iv. 45 — ' Lilt) to k rat^bond flag upon the stream.' J. Hastings.