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"Zakar," that which betokens masculinity. "Barid," silly, noyous, contemptible; as in the proverb Two things than ice are colder cold: An old man young, a young man old. A "cold-of-countenance"=a fool: "May Allah make cold thy face!"=may it show want and misery.
The Hebrew word here translated "memory" consists of three consonants represented by our English zkr; it may be the word zeker, which signifies memory, or the word zakar, which signifies a male person. Jerome's conjecture in this case is sufficiently fanciful; nevertheless he illustrates the impossibility of determining the exact meaning of many Hebrew sentences.
'Zakar, signifying, probably, 'heroic, appears to have been worshipped in Nippur, where a wall known as the 'wall of Zakar' was built by Samsu-iluna.
From the fact that this wall was sacred to Nin-khar-sag or Belit, we may, perhaps, be permitted to conclude that 'Zakar' stood in close relationship to Bel and Belit of Nippur, possibly a son, or, at all events, belonged to the inner circle of deities worshipped in the old city sacred to the great Bel.
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