HUSHATHITE, THE, is an epithet applied to SIBBECHAI, one of David's mighty men,' in 2 Sam. xxi. r8 ; Chron. xi. 29 ; xx. 4, and xxvii. I I ; and to MEBUNNAI, in 2 Sam. xxiii. 27. As this latter name is found among David's heroes also, it has been conjectured to be nothing more than another form for Sibbechai—probably by cor ruption of the text (sce Thenius and Houbigant, in /cc., the latter of whom juxtaposes 4]11' and 4.:no, as if to exhibit their similarity and liability to be confounded by copyists. Whether The Ifusha thite' ont.tirh7, or more correctly '71'1:Nil with dagesh, as in the last two places in Chronicles) is apatrony mic, indicating thefamily of Sibbechai, or a gen tile noun referring to his native city, is uncertain. No doubt either way the reference is to the name HUSHAII (rOn), mentioned in Chron. iv. 4— among the genealogies of the tribe of Judah—thus Ezert father of Hushah.' The first impression :hat Hushah must needs be a nzan's name is soon corrected by two phrases of the same verse—` Fa ther of Gedor," Father of Bethlehem,' where the two names in italics designate cities. Hushah, therefore, may reasonably be taken for a city also ; a conclusion which is quite confirmed by 7 Chron. xxvii. 77, where the fullest information we have is given respecting Sibbechai in these words '',D]? N-116 Tern, which are well rendered in the Vul gate, Sobadzai Hushathites de stirpe Zarahi (A. V.
S. the Hushathite, of the Zarhites'). The second of these epithets undoubtedly marks the man'sfamily as belonging to the Zarhite clan of Judah (Num. xxvi 20, not to be confounded with the Simeonite clan of the same name, in verse 73), leaving 'Hush°. thite' to indicate his birth-place, or else residence— somewhere in the territory of the tribe of Judah. The Vulgate gives the name of the city as 'Husati;' and in two of the five passages in which our epi thet Hushathite occurs, renders it de Husati' (see Dutripon's note, Concord. p. 626), the other three passages having flusathites.' The LXX. version, in the only passage of Samuel where the word occurs [for 2 Sam. xxiii. 27 does not men tion Mebunnai the Hushathite 1, renders it by 6 Ao- rarc&i: in all the passages in Chronicles it has 060-a5.1, for although in the second passage the Vatican text reads ,..;(00-cat (which is unintelligible [unless the represent the aspirate]), the Cod. Alex. conforms to the other reading ObaaB-1, which is our very word Hushathite shorn of its aspirate.—P. H.