HASHUB, or more correctly HASSHUB, ac cording to the Hebrew zijn, which always redu plicates the second letter. The A. V. has followed the Vulgate in its rendering of the form of this pro per name ; in the first passage where it occurs, the A. V. has liasslzub, and the Vulg. Hassub, each with double s, like the original ; in the other four passages, where the Latin version has only one s (Hasztb), our version resembles it in its deviation from the Hebrew, and writes Hashub. The pas sages in which the name occurs arc thesc : Chron. ix. 14 ; Neh. ; iii. 23 ; x. 23 ; xi. 15. In Chronicles the LXX. rendered the word 'Acn.43, in all the passages in Nehemiah 'Arrot;13.* (r) In the first and the last of these verses the same person (though his name is differently spelled in the A. V.) is undoubtedly meant. He was a descendant of Merari, the third son of Levi and father of Shemaiah, a leading man of the Levites, chosen by lot for the somewhat perilous duty of residence in Jerusalem, which was at that time the object of malignant hatred to the enemies of the Jews. Raschi accounts for the greater fulness of the list in Chron. than that of Nehemiah, by supposing that the latter gives only the names of such as were selected by lot, while the former included also such as volunteered to live in the metropolis (see Neh. xi. 1, 2).
(2) The next person who bears this name (Neli. iii. I) was one of the energetic band of men who helped to build the wall of Jerusalem under the difficult circuinstances narrated in the preceding chapter. The name of his father, Pahath-Moab, occurs in Ezra ii. 6 and Neh. vii. 1, as the head of a large clan which accompanied Zerubbabel on his return from Babylon.
(3) The same name was borne by another man engaged in the same good work of rebuilding the city wall. The statement (verse 23) that he built
such portion as was over against hic house' proves him to have been one of the residents of Jerusalem, instead of a stranger from the country, as many were who were occupied in this labour. We should not be extravagant if we supposed that this was the Levite already mentioned (i) ; we know that among the builders some of the Jewish clergy assisted (see ver. I).
(4) The last person who is mentioned as bearing this name (which was an honourable and not infre quent one among the Jews, of the same signification as Tcktdicis. or Tinzeits among the Greeks, see Simonis Onomast. p. 265, who refers to the fact that the same name was borne by a Jew of Jericho in Mark x. 46) is described in Neh. x. 23 as one of the forty-four `chiefc of the people,' who joined the Tirshatha in the pious office of subscrib ing and sealing the covenant of reformation and dedication to God. The epithet, one of 't,IN1 heaa's of the people,' very well suits our secona Hashub, the son of Pahath-Moab, who was evi dently a man of distinction and influence (Bei. them', Die Bucher Esra, 21. S. W. p. 231). The Levite is certainly excluded by this epithet as well as by the fact that all the subscribing Levites are expressly mentioned (vers. 9-13). FrOM verses 28 and 29, however, it follows that the Levite Hashub was a consenting party to the covenant which his namesake, the honourable layman, had the privilege of signing. It thus seems that in all our passages only two Hashubs are really designated.—P. H.