Difference between revisions of "Bithiah"

== Fausset's [[Bible]] [[Dictionary]] == <p> ("daughter i.e. worshipper of Jehovah".) Pharaoh's daughter and wife of Mered, a descendant of Judah. Her name shows she was a convert from [[Egyptian]] idolatry to Jehovah's worship; and Mered's other wife is distinguished from her, as" Jehudijah" the Jewess. This princess evidently, like Ruth, renounced home, country, and a royal court to take an [[Israelite]] husband and to have Israel's [[God]] for her God. The marriage probably took place in the wilderness shortly after the Exodus. </p> <p> [[Perhaps]] the disaster of [[Egypt]] at the [[Red]] [[Sea]] led some [[Egyptians]] to become proselytes. In Lepsius' Kings' Book, Amenophis II, (in his view) father of the [[Pharaoh]] drowned at the Red Sea, has among his children one with the hieroglyphic [[Amun]] P or B T H, i.e. beloved of Amun (god of Thebes). On conversion the -jah added to her name would mark her new religion. (See EGYPT, where is stated [[Canon]] Cook's view that Thothmes II, much earlier; was the Pharaoh drowned; Amenophis III had a wife not Egyptian in creed, and not of royal birth, named Tel, and her parents Juaa and Tuaa, names not unlike Bithia.) </p> == Holman Bible Dictionary == 1 Chronicles 4:17 1 Chronicles 4:18 1 Chronicles 4:18 1 Chronicles 4:17 == Hitchcock's Bible [[Names]] == == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible == <p> <strong> BITHIAH </strong> (‘daughter,’ <em> i.e. </em> worshipper, ‘of J″ [Note: Jahweh.] ’). The daughter of a Pharaoh, who became the wife of Mered, a descendant of [[Judah]] ( 1 Chronicles 4:18 ). [[Whether]] Pharaoh is to be taken here as the Egyp. royal title or as a Heb. proper name, it is difficult to determine. </p> == Morrish Bible Dictionary == <p> Daughter of some Pharaoh and wife of Mered, a descendant of Judah. 1 Chronicles 4:18 . </p> == Smith's Bible Dictionary == <p> Bithi'ah. (daughter of the Lord). Daughter of a Pharaoh, and wife of Mered. 1 Chronicles 4:18. (B.C. about 1491). </p> == [[International]] Standard Bible [[Encyclopedia]] == <p> '''''bi''''' -'''''thı̄´a''''' ( בּתיה , <i> '''''bithyāh''''' </i> ; Βεθθιά , <i> '''''Beththiá''''' </i> ; [[Codex]] Vaticanus, Γελιά , <i> '''''Geliá''''' </i> , "daughter of Yah"): The daughter of a Pharaoh who married Mered, a descendant of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:18 ). Whether this Pharaoh was an Egyptian king, or whether it was in this case a [[Hebrew]] name, it is difficult to say. The name [[Bithiah]] seems to designate one who had become converted to the worship of Yahweh, and this would favor the first supposition. If, as the [[Revised]] Version (British and American) reads, the other wife of [[Mered]] is distinguished as "the Jewess" (instead of the King James Version "Jehudijah"), this supposition would receive further support. </p> == [[Cyclopedia]] of Biblical, [[Theological]] and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature == <p> (Heb. Bithyah', בַּתְיָה, prob. for בִּתאּיָהּ, daughter [i.e. worshipper] of Jehovah; Sept. Βεθθία v. r. Βετθία), daughter of a Pharaoh, and wife of Mered, a descendant of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:18), by whom she had several sons (prob. those enumerated in the latter part of 1 Chronicles 4:17). B.C. cir. 1658. The date of Mered is not positively determined by the genealogy in which his name occurs, some portion of it having apparently been lost. It is probable, however, that he should be referred to the time before the Exodus, or to a period not much later. Pharaoh in this place might be conjectured not to be the Egyptian regal title, but to be or represent a Hebrew name; but the name Bithiah probably implies conversion, and the other wife of Mered seems to be called " the Jewess." [[Unless]] we suppose a transposition in the text, or the loss of some of the names of the children of Mered's wives, we must consider the name of Bithiah understood before " she bare Miriam" (1 Chronicles 4:17), and the latter part of 1 Chronicles 4:18 and 1 Chronicles 4:19 to be recapitulatory; but the Sept. does not admit any except the second of these conjectures. (See [[Mered]]). The Scriptures, as well as the Egyptian monuments, show that the Pharaohs intermarried with foreigners; but such alliances seem to have been contracted with royal families alone. [[Hence]] Mered would seem to have been a person of some distinction. It is possible that Bithiah was only an adopted daughter of Pharaoh, or she may have become the wife of Mered in some way through captivity. There is, however, no ground for considering her to have been a concubine; on the contrary, she is shown to be a wife, from her taking precedence of one specially designated as such. (See [[Hodijah]]). </p>

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