is mentioned only three times in the Bible, and on each occasion under a different name in the
Hebrew. (1 Samuel 17:18; 2 Samuel 17:29; Job 10:10) It is difficult to decide how far these terms
correspond with our notion of cheese, for they simply express various degrees of coagulation.
Cheese is not at the present day common among the Bedouin Arabs, butter being decidedly preferred;
but there is a substance closely corresponding to those mentioned in 1Sam 17, 2Sam 17, consisting
of coagulated buttermilk, which is dried until it become quite hard, and is then ground; the Arabs
eat it mixed with butter.
Chelal
(perfection), (Ezra 10:30) one who had a strange wife.
Chelluh
(completed), (Ezra 10:35) another like the above.
Chelub
- A man among the descendants of Judah.
•Ezri the son of Chelub, one of David’s officers. (1 Chronicles 27:26)
Chelubai
(capable), the son of Hezron. Same as Caleb. (1 Chronicles 2:9,18,42)
Chemarim, The
(those who go about in black, i.e. ascetics). In the Hebrew applied to the priests of the worship
of false gods. (2 Kings 23:5; Hosea 10:5) in margin; (Zephaniah 1:4)
Chemosh
(subduer), the national deity of the Moabites. (Numbers 21:29; Jeremiah 48:7,13,46) In (Judges
11:24) he also appears as the god of the Ammonites. Solomon introduced, and Josiah abolished,
the worship of Chemosh at Jerusalem. (1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13) Also identified with Baal-peor,
Baalzebub, Mars and Saturn.
Chenaanah
(merchant).
•Son of Bilhan, son of Jediael, son of Benjamin, head of a Benjamite house, (1 Chronicles 7:10)
probably of the family of the Belaites. [Bela]
•Father or ancestor of Zedekiah the false prophet. (1 Kings 22:11,24; 2 Chronicles 18:10,23)
Chenaniah
(established by the Lord), chief of the Levites when David carried the ark to Jerusalem. ( 1
Chronicles 15:22; 26:29)
Chepharhaammonai
(hamlet of the Ammonites), a place mentioned among the town of Benjamin. (Joshua 18:24)
Chephirah
(the hamlet), one of the four cities of the Gibeonites, (Joshua 9:17) named afterwards among
the towns of Benjamin. (Ezra 2:25; Nehemiah 7:29)
Cheran
(lyre), one of the sons of Dishon the Horite “duke.” (Genesis 36:26; 1 Chronicles 1:41)
Cherethim
(axe-men), (Ezekiel 25:16) same as Cherethites.
Cherethites
(executioners) and of King David. (2 Samuel 8:18; 15:18; 20:7,23; 1 Kings 1:38,44; 1 Chronicles
18:17) It is plain that these royal guards were employed as executioners., (2 Kings 11:4) and as