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"yiqha" or "yiqhath (by construction or contraction).
Shiloh is formed of four letters, shin, yod, lamed and hi.
There is a "Shiloh," the proper name of a town in Ephraim,
(1 Sam. i. etc.), but there is no yod in it. This name cannot
be identical with, or refer to, the town where the Ark of the
Covenant or the Tabernacle was; for until then no sceptre
or lawgiver had appeared in the tribe of Judah. The word
certainly refers to a person, and not to a place.
As far as I can remember, all the versions of the Old
Testament have preserved this original Shiloh without giving
it a rendering. It is only the Syriac Pshitta (in Arabic called
al-Bessita) that has translated it into "He to whom it
belongs." It is easy to see how the translator has under-
stood the word as composed of "sh" abridged form of
Shiloh is formed of four letters, shin, yod, lamed and hi.
There is a "Shiloh," the proper name of a town in Ephraim,
(1 Sam. i. etc.), but there is no yod in it. This name cannot
be identical with, or refer to, the town where the Ark of the
Covenant or the Tabernacle was; for until then no sceptre
or lawgiver had appeared in the tribe of Judah. The word
certainly refers to a person, and not to a place.
As far as I can remember, all the versions of the Old
Testament have preserved this original Shiloh without giving
it a rendering. It is only the Syriac Pshitta (in Arabic called
al-Bessita) that has translated it into "He to whom it
belongs." It is easy to see how the translator has under-
stood the word as composed of "sh" abridged form of