gathers in eggs, not of her own laying, and is unable to hatch them; others
(Tristram), with more probability, as denoting that the man who enriches
himself by unjust means “will as surely be disappointed as the partridge
which commences to sit, but is speedily robbed of her hopes of a brood”
by her eggs being stolen away from her.
The commonest partridge in Palestine is the Caccabis saxatilis, the Greek
partridge. The partridge of the wilderness (Ammo-perdix heyi) is a smaller
species. Both are essentially mountain and rock birds, thus differing from
the English partridge, which loves cultivated fields.
- PARUAH flourishing, the father of Jehoshaphat, appointed to provide
monthly supplies for Solomon from the tribe of Issachar (1 Kings 4:17). - PARVAIM the name of a country from which Solomon obtained gold for
the temple (2 Chronicles 3:6). Some have identified it with Ophir, but it is
uncertain whether it is even the name of a place. It may simply, as some
think, denote “Oriental regions.” - PASACH clearing, one of the sons of Japhlet, of the tribe of Asher (1
Chronicles 7:33). - PAS-DAMMIM the border of blood = Ephes-dammim (q.v.), between
Shochoh and Azekah (1 Samuel 17:1; 1 Chronicles 11:13). - PASHUR release. (1.) The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah,
Nehemiah 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was “chief
governor [Hebrews paqid nagid, meaning “deputy governor”] of the
temple” (Jeremiah 20:1, 2). At this time the nagid, or “governor,” of the
temple was Seraiah the high priest (1 Chronicles 6:14), and Pashur was his
paqid, or “deputy.” Enraged at the plainness with which Jeremiah uttered
his solemn warnings of coming judgements, because of the abounding
iniquity of the times, Pashur ordered the temple police to seize him, and
after inflicting on him corporal punishment (forty stripes save one,
Deuteronomy 25:3; comp. 2 Corinthians 11:24), to put him in the stocks
in the high gate of Benjamin, where he remained all night. On being set free
in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur (Jeremiah 20:3, 5), and announced
to him that God had changed his name to Magor-missabib, i.e., “terror on
every side.” The punishment that fell upon him was probably remorse,
when he saw the ruin he had brought upon his country by advising a close