Oholiab to be Bĕẓal"çl's associate. The name-Oholiab" is peculiar, and perhaps not genuinely Hebrew (Gray, Heb. Pr. Names, p. 246): it means apparently The father(God) is my tent; cf. Phoen. אהלבעל, אהלמלך, Baal, or the King, is a tent; Sabaean אהלעתתר, אהלאל, - Athtar is a tent, God is a tent; and the Edomitish Oholibamah(-My tent is the high place"?), Genesis 36:2; Genesis 36:41.

and in the hearts, &c. i.e. those who are already wise-hearted, i.e. (cf. on Exodus 28:3) possess artistic aptitudes, are to be further endowed by God with wisdom, i.e. with the requisite skill to assist Bĕẓal"çl and Oholiab in their work.

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