s it were, to have the
lawgiver wherever he moves or stands. Explanatory of this is the
passage in Judges v. 27, where, in the Song of Deborah, it is said of
Jael, "He bowed between her feet, he fell, he lay down." That which any
one has between his feet, is accordingly his territory on which he
moves, that within his reach. In the latter passage the prose
expression would have been, "beside her," and in the passage under
consideration, "from him."[8]

Sceptre and lawgiver shall not depart from Judah until Shiloh come.
Here everything depends upon fixing the derivation and signification of
this word. There cannot be any doubt, and, indeed, it is now almost
universally admitted, that it is derived from [Hebrew: wlh], "to rest."
In the first edition of this work, the author gave it as his opinion,
that its formation was analogous to that of [Hebrew: kidvr], "tumult of
war," from [Hebrew: kdr], "to be troubled," [Hebrew: qiTr], "smoke,"
from [Hebrew: qTr], [Hebrew: wlH] from [Hebrew: wlH]; and many
(_Hofmann_, _Kurtz_, _Reinke_) have stedfastly maintained this opinion
even until now. But the author must confess that the objections raised
against this derivation by _Tuch_ are well-founded. "In the first
place," _Tuch_ remarks, "it is well known that forms like [Hebrew:
qiTr] do not constitute any special class in the etymology, but have
originated from _Piel_ forms (_Ewald_, Lehrb. d. Hebr. Spr. Sec. 156 b),
as is very clearly shown by [Hebrew: qimvw], being found by the side of
[Hebrew: qmvw]. But the _o_ in the final syllable of these words is not
an _o_ unchangeable, according to the rules of etymology, and could,
therefore, not remain in a root [Hebrew: lh]; _and there is not found,
in general, any form of a root_ [Hebrew: lh] _analogous to_ [Hebrew:
qiTr]." But far more decisive is another reason. "The _nomina Gentilia_
[Hebrew: gilni] (2 Sam. xv. 12), [Hebrew: wilni] (1 Kings [Pg 69] xi.
29, xii. 15), lead us from the supposed form to the substantive
termination [Hebrew: -vN] which a _liquida_ may drop, and express the
remaining vowel [Hebrew: v] by [Hebrew: h]." (Compare _Ewald_, Sec. 163.)
Now that _Shiloh_ is an abbreviation of _Shilon_ is proved, not only by
the _nomen gentile_, but also by the fact, that the ruins of the town
which received its name from the Shiloh in our passage, are, up to the
present moment, called _Seilun_, and that Josephus writes _Silo_ as
well as _Silun_, [Greek: Siloun] (compare _Robinson