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14 And the one was called Jemîma, and the second Kezia, and the third Keren ha-pûch.
The subject of וַיִּקְרָא is each and every one, as Isa 9:5 (comp. supra, Job 41:25, existimaverit quis). The one was called יְמִימָה (Arab. jemâme, a dove) on account of her dove's eyes; the other קְצִיעָה, cassia, because she seemed to be woven out of the odour of cinnamon; and the third קֶרֶן הַפּוּךְ, a horn of paint (lxx Hellenizing: κέρας ἀμαλθείας), which is not exactly beautiful in itself, but is the principal cosmetic of female beauty (vid., Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, transl.): the third was altogether the most beautiful, possessing a beauty heightened by artificial means. They were therefore like three graces. The writer here keeps to the outward appearance, not disowning his Old Testament standpoint. That they were what their names implied, he says in