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 * Carmel.
 # 25:2; Jos 15:55; 1Ki 18:42|
 * he set him.
 # 7:12; Jos 4:8,9; 2Sa 18:18|
 * a place.  Yad.
   Literally as the LXX. render [cheira,] a hand; probably
   because the trophy or monument of victory was in the shape of
   a large hand, the emblem of power, erected on a pillar.  These
   memorial pillars were anciently much in use; and the figure of
   a hand, by its emblematical meaning, was well adapted to
   preserve the remembrance of a victory.  Niebuhr, speaking of
   the Mesjed Ali, or Mosque of Ali, says that, "at the top of
   the dome, where one generally sees on the Turkish mosques a
   crescent, or only a pole, there is here a hand stretched out,
   to represent that of Ali."  Another writer informs us, that at
   the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings in Grenada,
   "on the key-stone of the outward arch [of the present
   principal entrance] is sculptured the figure of an arm, the
   symbol of strength and dominion."