. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ient cities of Assyria. Its foundation isascribed to the patriarch Asshur (Gen. x. 11). (Nim-rod.) According to Rawlinson, the site of Calah ismarked by the Nimrud ruins (Nineveh). If this beregarded as ascertained, Calah must be consideredto have been at one time (about b. c. 930-720) thecapital of the empire. Dr. II. Lobdell (in D. S. ) supposed Calah to be at Kahih Sherghat (seeAssyria, § 7). Bochart, Gesenius, &c., make Calah- Halah. Cal-a-niola-Ius (1 Esd. v. 22), a corrupt name, ap-parently from Elam, Lod, and Reed 4. (al
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ient cities of Assyria. Its foundation isascribed to the patriarch Asshur (Gen. x. 11). (Nim-rod.) According to Rawlinson, the site of Calah ismarked by the Nimrud ruins (Nineveh). If this beregarded as ascertained, Calah must be consideredto have been at one time (about b. c. 930-720) thecapital of the empire. Dr. II. Lobdell (in D. S. ) supposed Calah to be at Kahih Sherghat (seeAssyria, § 7). Bochart, Gesenius, &c., make Calah- Halah. Cal-a-niola-Ius (1 Esd. v. 22), a corrupt name, ap-parently from Elam, Lod, and Reed 4. (al col (Heb. sustenance ? Ges.), a man of Judah,son or descendant of Zerah (1 Chr. ii. 6); probably= Chalcol. Darda ; Mahol. Cal dron, a vessel for boiling flesh, either for cer-emonial or domestic use. It is the translation inA. V. of four Hebrew words, viz., agmon (Job ; see Reed 1), dud (2 Chr. xxxv. 13; see Basket5; Pot 3), sir (Jer. Hi. 18, 19 ; Ez. xi. 3, 7, 11; seePot 4), kallahath or kallachath (1 Sam. ii. 14; 3).. Bronze Caldron from Egyptian Thebes.—(British Mnseatn.) Caleb (Heb. dog? Ges.; the bold, the valiant, i. , Fii.). 1. According to 1 Chr. ii. 9, 18, 19,42, son of Hezron, the son of Pharez, the son ofJudah, and the father of Hur by Ephrath or Ephra-tah. His brothers, according to the same authority,were Jerahmeel and Ram ; his wives Azubah, Jerioth,and Ephrath ; and his concubines Ephah and Ma-achah (ver. 9, 18, 19, 46, 48). Lord A. C. Herveyregards the text in 1 Chr. ii. as corrupt in manyplaces. Keil maintains that Caleb the son (i. e. thedescendant) of Hezron = Caleb the son of Jephun- neh (?); compare Josh. xv. 16 and 1 Chr. ii. 49.—2. Son of Jephunheh, by which patronymic theillustrious spy is usually designated (Num. xiii. 6,and ten other places), with the addition of theKenezite (= son of Kenaz) in Num. xxxii. 12 ; Josh. xiv. 6, 14. Caleb is first mentioned in the list ofthe rulers or princes sent to search the land of Ca-naan i
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