LAODICEANS, EPISTLE TO (1a-od-i-se'anz, t-pis"1). In Col. iv:t6 Paul desires that the epistle from Laodicea "be read at Colocse_." (See COL OSSIANS, EPISTLE TO THE.) LAP (15p), (Heb. beh'ged, 2 Kings iv:39, a garment; irn, khake, Prov. xvi:33, the bosom; kho'Isen, bosom, Nell. v:13; in Is. XliN:22, the Hebrew is translated armful). A fold of the gar ment used by Orientals as a pocket.
The psalmist offered the prayer, "render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their re proach" (Ps. lxxix :12). The same allusion oc curs in the Savior's direction, "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom" (Luke vi :38). (See BOSONI ; DRESS.) LAPIDOTH (141-dath), (Hcb. rwrc2, lafi-fiee tioth', torches). Husband of the prophetess Deb orah (Judg. iv:4). (B. C. before 112o.) vinous fawn color, and further embellished with a beautiful fan-shaped crest of the same color, tipped with white and black. Its appellations in
all languages appear to be either imitations of the bird's voice or indications of its filthy habits; which, however, modern ornithologists deny, or do not notice. In Egypt these birds are numerous, forming, probably, two species, the one permanent ly resident about human habitations, the other migratory, and the same that visits Europe. The latter wades in the mud when the Nile has sub sided, and seeks for worms and insects; and the former is known to rear its young so much im mersed in the shards and fragments of beetles, etc., as to cause a disagreeable smell about its nest, which is always in holes or in hollow trees. Though an unclean bird in the Hebrew law, the common migratory hoopoe is eaten in Egypt, and