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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_37282" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_37282" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> CHIUN. Amos 5:26-27, "ye have borne the tabernacle of your [[Moloch]] and [[Chiun]] your images, the star of your god which ye made to yourselves." Acts 7:42-43 from the [[Septuagint]] of Amos, "ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them." Instead of "Chiun your images" Pusey, deriving Chiun from chun "to fix firmly," translated Amos, "ye did bear the ''(Portable)'' shrine of your idol king, and the pedestal of your images," etc. [[Israel]] secretly carried on idolatry in the wilderness, with a small shrine escaping Moses' observation ( Ezekiel 20:7-8; Ezekiel 20:39; Ezekiel 23:3; Joshua 24:14). </p> <p> Ken and Rempu were foreign gods worshipped jointly in Egypt; they became seemingly interchangeable names, so that Chiun in Amos answers to [[Remphan]] in Acts; and this god in turn is but another phase of Moloch or Saturn, the "star god". A star was put on the head of the images of the idol representing Saturn; hence "images" answer to "star" in parallelism. The [[Egyptians]] represented Rempu as an Asiatic with full board and face of the type given on the monuments to nations E. of Egypt. Ken was represented naked, holding grain in both hands, and standing on a lion; answering to the [[Syrian]] goddess or Venus, called also Ketesh (Hebrew qideeshaah "consecrated".) Ken is related to Khem, the [[Egyptian]] god of productiveness, Remphan and Chiun answer to the Phoenician [[Baal]] and [[Astarte]] or [[Ashtoreth]] ''(Mylitta Of Babylon)'' . </p> | ||
== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48667" /> == | == Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48667" /> == | ||
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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74542" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74542" /> == | ||
<p> '''Rem'phan.''' Acts 7:43. [[Remphan]] and [[Chiun]] , Amos 5:26, have been supposed to be names of an idol, worshipped secretly by the [[Israelites]] in the wilderness, difficulty has been occasioned, by this corresponding occurrence of two names, so wholly different in sound. The most reasonable opinion seems to be that [[Chiun]] was a [[Hebrew]] or Semitic name, and [[Remphan]] was an Egyptian equivalent, substituted by the Septuagint | <p> '''Rem'phan.''' Acts 7:43. [[Remphan]] and [[Chiun]] , Amos 5:26, have been supposed to be names of an idol, worshipped secretly by the [[Israelites]] in the wilderness, difficulty has been occasioned, by this corresponding occurrence of two names, so wholly different in sound. The most reasonable opinion seems to be that [[Chiun]] was a [[Hebrew]] or Semitic name, and [[Remphan]] was an Egyptian equivalent, substituted by the Septuagint (LXX). This idol corresponded, probably, to [[Saturn]] or Molech. The mention of [[Chiun]] or [[Remphan]] as worshipped in the desert, shows that this idolatry was, in part, at least, that of foreigners, and, no doubt, of those settled in lower Egypt. ''See '' [[Chiun]] ''.'' </p> | ||
== Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_81358" /> == | == Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_81358" /> == | ||
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== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_68301" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_68301" /> == | ||
<p> The name of a god in Acts 7:43 , which Israel had worshipped (but some of the Greek | <p> The name of a god in Acts 7:43 , which Israel had worshipped (but some of the Greek MSS read REPHAN). Stephen was quoting Amos 5:25,26 from the LXX, which has RAEPHAN. In the Hebrew the name of the god is CHIUN, but why the translators changed the name is not known. There have been found among the foreign gods in Egypt one named RENPU, and a goddess KEN, which may have been those referred to. </p> | ||
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70705" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70705" /> == | ||
<p> [[Remphan]] ('' | <p> [[Remphan]] (''Rĕn'Fan'' ). Acts 7:43, and quoted from Amos 5:26, where the word in Hebrew is "Chiun." It is probable, therefore, that they are names for a god worshipped secretly by the Israelites in Egypt and in the wilderness, answering, probably, to Saturn or Moloch, the star-god. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_17037" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_17037" /> == | ||
<p> An idol, the same as Chiun. Compare Amos 5:26 Acts 7:43 . See | <p> An idol, the same as Chiun. Compare Amos 5:26 Acts 7:43 . See Chiun . </p> | ||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_33313" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_33313" /> == | ||
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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53584" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53584" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> REMPHAN </strong> . See Rephan. </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16545" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16545" /> == | ||
