Identifier: dictionaryof186003smit (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible ..
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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ative of the Hebrew word Koph, to denote anyspecies of Quadrumanous Mammalia ; Lichtensteinconjectures that the Hebrew word represents somekind of Diana monkeys, perhaps, CercopitheciisDiana; but as this species is an inhabitant ofGuinea, and unknown in Eastern Africa, it is notat all probable that this is the animal denoted. In the engraving which represents the Litho-strotum Praenestinum (that curious mosaic pave-ment found at Praeneste), in Shaws travels (ii.294-, 8vo. ed.), is to be seen the figure of someanimal in a tree, witli the word KHIIIEN over it.Of this animal Dr. Shaw says (312), It is a d Our English word ant appears to be an abbreviationof the form emmet (Sax. aemniet). XIV APES beautiful little creature, with a shaggy neck like theCallithrix, and shaped exactly like those monkeysthat are commonly called Marmosets. The KHIITENtherefore may be the Ethiopian monkey, called bythe Hebrews Kouph, and by the Greeks KHIIOS,KH02, or KEinOS, from whence the Latin KHIOEN
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Jlonkey from the Praenestiue Mo; name Cephus. This description will be found toapply better to the figure in the 4to ed. of Dr.Shaws Travels than to that in the 8vo. ed. Per-haps, as Col. Harnilton Smith has suggested, theKeipen of the Praenestine mosaic may be the Cerco-pithecus griseo-viridis, Desmar., which is a nativeof Nubia, the country represented in that part ofthe mosaic where the figure of the keipen occurs. Itcannot represent any species of marmoset, since themembers of that group of Quadrumana are peculiarto America. In all probability, as has been statedabove, the koph of the Bible is not intended to referto any one particular species of ape.^ Solomon was a naturalist, and collected every-thing that was curious and beautiful; and if, asSir E. Tennent has very plausibly argued, theancient Tarshish is identical with Ft. de Galle, orsome seaport of Ceylon, it is not improbable thatthe kophiin which the fleet biought to Solomonwere some of the monkeys from that country, which

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