And Horonaim, Seon's realm, beyond And Eleale to th' Asphaltic pool." Par. Lost, b. i. v. 407. -Yet his temple high Ad-o-ra'im 16 A dri-el 13 A-du/el 13 A-dul lam AH E-ne'as.-Virgil. Eno-asT.-Acts 9 E non 'nos Ag'a-ba A gag 1 11 Ag-a-renes A-has-u-e'rus A/haz A-haz'a-i 5 Ah ban A her A-hi jah Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon, And Accaron and Gaza's frontier bounds."—Ib. 463. Abram, or Abraham.-The first name, of two syllables was the patriarch's original name, but God increased it to the second, of three syllables, as a pledge of an increase in blessing. The latter name, however, from the feebleness of the h in our pronunciation of it, and from the absence of the accent, is liable to such a hiatus, from the proximity of two similar vowels, that, in the most solemn pronunciation, we seldom hear this name extended to three syllables. Milton has but once pronounced it in this manner, but has six times made it only two syllables; and this may be looked upon as the general pronunciation. Adonai.-Labbe, says his editor, makes this a word of three syllables only; which, if once admitted, why, says he, should he dissolve the Hebrew diphthong in Saddi, Sinai, Tolmai, &c., and at the same time make two syllables of the diphthong in Casleu, which are commonly united into one? In this, says he, he is inconsistent with himself -See SINAI AR An-ti-lib'a-nus An-ti/o-chis An-ti'o-chus An-tip a-tris An-to-thi jah 15 A nas Ar A'ra A'rab Ar'a-bah Ar-a-bat'ti-ne A-ra'bi-a A'rad A rah 1 A'ram A ran A-rau'nah Arba, or Ar bah Ar-bat'tis Ar-be la (in Syria) Ar-bella Ar bite 8 Ar-bo'nai 5 Arche-la'us Ar-ches'tra-tus Ar'che-vites 8 Amen.-The only simple word in the language which has necessarily two successive accents. Anathema.-Those who are not acquainted with the profound researches of verbal critics would be astonished to observe what waste of learning has been bestowed on this word by Labbe, in order to show that it ought to be accented on the antepenultimate syllable. This pronunciation has been adopted by English scholars; though some divines have been heard from the pulpit to give it the penultimate accent, which so readily unites it in a trochaic pronunciation with Maranatha, in the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians: "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema maranatha." Areopagus.-There is a strong propensity in English readers of the New Testament to pronounce this word with the accent on the penultimate syllable, and even some foreign scholars have contended that it ought to be so pronounced, from its deriration from "Αρειος παγὰν, the Doric dialect for πηγὴν, the fountain of Mars, which was on a hill in Athens, rather than from "Apetos mayos, the hill of Mars. But Labbe very justly dospises this derivation, and says, that, of all the ancient writers, none have said that the Areopagus was derived from a fountain, or from a country near to a fountain; but all have confessed that it came from a hill, or the summit of a rock, on which this famous court of judicature was built Vossius AS A-re litos A'res Ar gob A'ri-och 4 Ar'mon A rom Ar pad, or Ar'phad Ar sa-ces Ar-phax ad Ar vad-ites 8 As-baz/a-reth A-se1aa As-e-bi'a A-seb-e-bi'a 15 Ash-a-bi'ah 15 Ash bel-ites 8 Ash'doth-ites 8 Ash'er Ash/i-math Ash ke-naz As-i-bi as 15 As ke-lon As ri-el 13 this word pagum Martis, the Village of Mars, and that he fell into this error because the Latin word pagus signifies a village or street; but, says he, the Greek word signifies a hill. which, perhaps, was so called from mayà or anyǹ (that is, fountain, because fountains usually take their rise on hills, Wreng, however, as this derivation may be, he tells us it is adopted by no less scholars than Beza, Budæus, and Sigonius. And this may show us the uncertainty of etymology in language, and the security of general usage; but in the present case, both etymology and usage conspire to place the accent on the antepenultimate syllable. Agreeably to this usage, we find the prologue to a play observe, that, "The critics are assembled in the pit, And form an Areopagus of wit." Asmadai.-Mr. Oliver has not inserted this word, but we have it in Milton: ¶ [Beth-sai'da.-P.] **[Bez'a-leel.-P. F. & K.] Be-to'li-us Bet-o-mes'tham Bet'o-nim Be-u'lah Be'zai 5 Be-zal'e-el** Be'zek Belzer, or Boz'ra Be'zeth Bi'a-tas Bich'ri 3 6 Bid/kar Big tha Big than Bil'e-am Bil'gah Bil ha, or Bil'hah Boz'rah Brig'an-dine Buk'ki 3 Bun'ni 3 Buz Bu'zi 3 Buz'ite 8 CAB Cab/bon Cab'ham C. Ca'bul.-See BUL Cad'dis Cai'a-phas 5 Cal'col Ca/leb Caleb Eph'ra-tah Cal-a-mol'a-lus Cal'no Can vee Ca-per'na-umg 1 Caph-ar-sala-ma Ca-phen'a-tha 9 Ca-phi'ra 9 tt Canaan.-This word is not unfrequently pronounced in three syllables, with the accent on the second. But Milton, who in his Paradise Lost has introduced this word six times, has constantly made it two syllables, with the accent on the first. This is perfectly agreeable to the syllabication and accentuation of Isaac and Balaam, which are always heard in two syllables. This suppression of a syllable in the latter part of these words arises from the absence of accent: an accent on the second syllable would prevent the hiatus arising from the two vowels, as it does in Baal and Baalim, which are always heard in two and three syllables respectively.-See ADONAI. [Both Perry and Fulton and Knight make but twe syllables of this word.-ED.] DS Capernaum.-This word is often, but improperly pro t Deborah.-The learned editor of Labbe tells us, that this word has the penultimate long, both in Greek and Hebrew; and yet he observes that our clergy, when reading the Holy Scriptures to the people in English, always pronounce it with the accent on the first syllable; and why not," says he, when they place the accent on the first syllable of orator, they accent them otherwise when they speak Latin" Who doubts it? Gorty-na Go-thon'i-el 13 Gra'ba Gre'ci-a 9 Gud go-dah Gu'ni 3 Gur Ha'noch-ites 8 Haph-a-ra'im 15 Ha'ra Har'a-dah 9 Ha'ra-rite 8 Har-bo'na Ha'reph Ha'rod-ite 8 Has-a-di'ah 15 Hash-ab'nah 9 Hash-ab-ni'ah 15 Hash-bad'a-na 9 Ha'shem Hash-mo'nah 9 Ha'shum Ha-shu'pha 9 He'lek-ites 8 He'lem Hel'kath Hel'kath Haz'zu-rim Hel-ki'as 15 He'lon |