Wealth  and  worth. — This  is  the  best  rendering  I  can  find  for
this  phrase,  which  belongs  to  the  class  known  as  ^\*  The
two  words  have  almost  the  same  meaning,  if  r?^  be  considered
to  be,  like  i^,  a  supply  of  anything  which  one  has  acquired.
When  used  negatively  the  phrase  means  that  a  man  is  poor  and
useless,  Arab.  Prov.  II.  634;  and  here  the  sense  may  be  that


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they  were  a  prosperous  and  serviceable  people.  Bat  Slierlshi
gives  to^;^  the  metaphorical  sense  of  friendship,  which  is  con-
sistent with  the  meaning  of^^^  as  a  ma^dar;  for  the  latter
signifies  the  bringing  in  provision  for  one's  friends  or  fellow
travellers ;  so  that  the  phrase  may  mean  in  the  text  well-tchdo
and  liberal  people.
Making  a  marriage  feast.-^lj^^  is  nsed  especially  in  the  sense
of  a  feast  at  a  wedding ;  compare  a  note  to  Assembly  Eleven.
hJ\^  is  any  feast  to  which  persons  are  invited.  .\a^\  is  the
general  multitude;  those  who,  as  it  were,  troop  or  hurry  in  to  a
feast  when  they  are  invited.  See  Commentary,  p.  373,  De
Sacy's  edition.  ,<U:r  ^>^<^  ^^  ^  general  invitation  as  opposed  to
ijyj  iy^J,  a  select  invitation.
