609. Philistines, the ἀλλόφυλοι of LXX.
610. Jerome says, "the tower of Strato, afterward called Caesarea." Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. pp. 22, 23.
611. The Roman provincia; our "province" is not sufficiently exact.
612. Doubtless a translation of the Greek ἀστροθεσία .
613. Job 9:9, in the main following LXX; but I find Orion in Peshitta and MT only. The Peshitta, however, has only one term, @@, in place of "the evening star and the North Star."
614. Does this represent the Greek βότρυς ?
615. A transliteration of the Greek κορήτης .
616. Cf. Job 38:34a and 326 in LXX.
617. I.e., Ursa Minor; Charles's Wain usually means Ursa Major.
618. Transliteration of the LXX term, here found on the margin.
619. The marginal "Hosea" is an error; see Ps. 134:7 in LXX.
620. Amos 5:8 in LXX; the full title for Deity is found only in the margin of the Syro-Hexaplaric version.
621. Lit., "which."
622. Or "dust." It is interesting to observe that the modern "tells," the word here translated "hills," are artificial and composed mainly of dust.
623. Exactly what particular kind of ridges is meant is not clear; certainly not all ridges are of sand, even in Palestine.
624. The only meaning given by the lexicons is "rivulets." The marginal Greek readings seem to be confused, and θινασι, "sand heaps" or "dunes," seems to belong to this word rather than to shevalte. B does not definitely attach θινασι to a particular word of the text.
625. The primary meaning of this word in the singular is "spike (of grain)," but it seems also to mean "flood" (Ps. 69:3,16 MT; Isa. 27:12 MT and P). The marginal δινασι, "whirlpools" or "eddies," seems to belong to this word.
626. 1 am venturing thus to vocalize in accordance with the same consonants in R. Payne Smith, Thesaurus Syriacus, col. 2615.
627. Cf. ibid. col. 1264.
628. Perhaps an adjective built on the city name Heftun; cf. R. Payne Smith, op. cit. col. 1349.
629. For the entire colophon cf. W. Wright, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum II (London, 1871) 718a. Wright makes out some letters hardly legible in our photograph. B has no corresponding colophon.
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