PARBAR (1re). In detailing the stations and numbers of the watchmen and door-keepers iir and around the Temple, the sacred historian Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward fuur a day, and toward Asup pim two and two. At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar' (a Chron. xxvi. 17, 18). The meaning is not clear, and we cannot gather from the sentence what the word Parbar signifies. It is manifestly a proper name, and was given to some structure connected with the gates on the western side of the Temple-court. The words of the Septuagint are even more ob scure than the Hebrew. There is, besides, a repe tition of a preceding ciause, which adds to the difficulty of interpretation, and to the confusion of the passage. Yes. 18 is attached to the last clause of the preceding verse—Kai Els 'Ecze01,u. Ho Els SLaSexo,ulpous, Kai rpds Sturgais 71Ero-apEs, Kai Ill r11 Suo azaZexou4vous. The word iitaSexoldvous is the equivalent of Int ; it is con nected with Ho, and must signify, as here used, by turns And at Esephim two by turns,' or relieving each other' (cf. Xen. Anab. i. 5. 2).
The Hebrew will not bear such a rendering. Jerome translates as follows : In cellulis quoque janitorum ad occidentem quatuor in via, binique per cellulas ;' but what these cellulo were does not appear. The word Parbar does not occur in any other part of Scripture; but it is supposed to be the same as l're in 2 Kings xxiii. 11, translated `suburbs' in the A. V. The LXX. read