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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."