For these two hierodules the Heb. is ḳadesh(masc.) and ḳedeshah(fem.) and means simply set apari, consecrated(cp. above, pp. 108 ff.), the former being probably the unsexed man referred to in Deuteronomy 22:5; Deuteronomy 23:1.

The firstling of his bullock Ephraim, Genesis 48:13 ff.

wild-ox Heb. re"em, Ar. ri'm= the white antelope, leucoryx (see on Deuteronomy 14:5), but the descriptions in the O.T. prove that the Heb. re"emwas rather the Ass. rimu, a gigantic species of ox (-Bos primigenius") now extinct, though its teeth have been found in the valley of the Nahr el-Kelb, in the district where Tiglath Pileser i. (b.c. 1120 ff.) hunted the rimu(Tristr. Nat. Hist. of the Bible, 146 ff., Houghton, Trans. Soc. Bibl. Arch.v. 33, 326 ff.; see more fully Driver's note).

These be] So (without and) Sam. LXX, etc.

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