NACHON ; Sept. Naxoip ; Alex. Naxi.fa, ; Vulg. 'Vachon) occurs in 2 Sam. vi. 6 as the name of the threshing-floor which in the parallel passage, in r Chron. xiii. 9, is called by the appellation of Chidon [CH1004 The Targum of Jonathan explains the word Nachon by jprn inm, • a pre pared place' aprin being the passive part. of the Rabbinical verb aptare, ordinare, see Buxtorf, Lan Rabb. 2627) ; thus regarding the thresking• floor of Perez-Uzzah as the temporary station air pointed by David for the reception of the ark previous to its ultimate rest in the city of David.' This seems to confirm the view we have mentioned in art. CHIDON of the possible identity of the threshing-floor there called Chidon, and here Nachon, with the well-known one of Araunah the Jebusite, within the precincts of the city of his Canaanite ancestors. Origen has preserved (Hexa pla, Migne vi. i. 41) three readings of the LXX.,
"Eta ZiXw Nax(bp—"AXXor, guys ii.Xcevos 'Ax6p "AXXos, ew, rijs Ina) 'Epra To1.3 'Iegoucratov. We have also a scrap of Aquila, who treats the name Nachon as an appellative, and gives it the same meaning as the Targumist, gun lacovor irolpqs, q. d. When they came to a place prepared for it. This version is also given in the Peschito Syriac and the Arabic. Gesenius (Lex. by Robinson, p. 673) so far takes this view.as to derive jja: from 113, to prepare ; but thinks after all, that the words rin (Chidon) and 173 (Nachon) have become confused ; the first corrupted from the second, or vice versa (Thes. 633). Fiirst (Lex. ii. 37) derives our word 11M from rC), to strike or smite, and makes it equivalent with rrn in indicating the calamity which smote Uzza.—P. H.