בְּעַד עֹור Jb 2:4 skin in behalf of, for, skin , appar. proverb. phrase of barter, = everything has its price (on varieties of interpr. v. Comm .). 2. hide of animals (44 times), always—except Jb 40:31 —after skinning: Gn 27:16 ( J ); of sacrif. victims Ex 29:14 Lv 4:11 + 5 times (all P ); prepared for use (by some process of tanning, cf. Now ^{Arch. i. 242}), sometimes = leather: material of garments Gn 3:21 ( J ), girdle 2 K 1:8 , any article Lv 11:32 ; 13:48 ff Nu 31:20 ( P ); covering of tabern. Ex 25:5 ^(×2) + 10 times Ex 26 , 35 , 36 , 39 , of ark, sacred utensils, etc., Nu 4:6 + 5 times Nu 4 .

עורים Is 30:6 v. עַיִר ^.

^•[עוּשׁ S 5789 TWOT 1590 GK 6429 ] vb. si vera l ., lend aid, come to help ⁽Arabic غَاثَ ( ğāṯa ) ^IV. aid, succour; Sab. עֿותֿ n. help , SabDenkm ⁹¹; Nab. Sin. עות in
n.pr. Lzb ³³⁷ Cook ⁹⁰) ;— Qal Imv. mpl. עוּשׁוּ וָבֹאוּ Jo 4:11 but dub. ; Gr D r, plausibly, חוּשׁוּ ; Che Expos., Nov. 1897, 365 גְּשׁוּ ( √ נגשׁ ); עוּרוּ We No w.

• יְעוּשׁ S 3266 GK 3593 (also Kt יעישׁ ⁾ n.pr.m. ( ^prob. he comes to help , Nö ZMG xl (1886), 168 ; = Arabic n.pr.div. يَغُوثُ ( yağūṯu ), We ^Skizzen iii, 171; Heid. 2, 146 RS ^{K 218}
( cf. Sem i. 43 ) Nö ^l.c., yet against this Ö Ιεους (i.e. ع ( ˓ ); not Ιαγους , غ ( ğ )), and יְ

Comm. Commentary, Commentaries, Commentators. Now W. Nowack, Hebräische Archäologie .
vb. verb.

SabDenkm Sabäische Denkmäler, edd. Mordmann & Müller . Nab. Nabataean.
n.pr. nomen proprium, proper name. Cook Stanley A. Cook.

Imv. Imperative. mpl. masculine plural. dub. dubious, doubtful. Gr H. Grätz.

Dr S. R. Driver. Che T. K. Cheyne. Kt K ^ethibh .

Nö T. Nöldeke .

ZMG Zeitschrift d. deutsch. Morgenländ. Gesellschaft. div. divinum, divinitatis.

We J. Wellhousen, Skizzen und Vorarbeiten .

Heid. J. Wellhousen, History of Israel (trans. by Black). RS W. Robertson Smith, Kinship & Marriage in Early Arabia;

l.c. in loco citato. ÖÑ Greek version of the LXX.