The People of Palestine / An enlarged edition of "The Peasantry of Palestine, Life, Manners and Customs of the Village"

by Elihu Grant

TIME

In Palestine villages the time of day is reckoned with reference to sunset, which is called twelve o’clock. If the sun should set at six o’clock, European time, then seven o’clock in the evening, as we should say, would be called the first hour of the night by the Arabs, and seven o’clock the next morning by our watches would be the first hour of the day according to Arab time. The two methods of keeping the time are termed, respectively, Arabi and Franji.

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[201]. טירה, see preface to Arabic and English Name List in Palestine Exploration Fund Memoirs.

[202]. Matt. 13: 44.

[203]. See page 17.

[204]. Cf. Judges 5: 6, 7.

[205]. Cf. Judges 21: 25.

[206]. Cf. Luke 19: 2, 8.

[207]. Neh. 5: 4.