or Chevan, in Hebrew antiquity. We meet with this word in the prophet Amos, cited in the Acts of the Apostles. St Luke reads the passage thus: "Ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them." The import of the Hebrew is as follows: "Ye have borne the tabernacle of your kings, and the pedestal (the chiun) of your images, the star of your gods, which ye made to yourselves." The Septuagint in all probability read Repham or Revan, instead of Chiun or Chevan, and took the pedestal for a god.

Some say that the Septuagint, who made their translation in Egypt, changed the word Chiun into that of Remphan, because they had the same signification. M. Basnage, in his book entitled Jewish Antiquities, after having discoursed a good deal upon Chiun or Remphan, concludes that Moloch was the sun, and Chiun, Chiun, or Remphan, the moon.

CHIAMYS, in antiquity, a military habit worn by the ancients over the tunics. It belonged to the patricians, and was the same in the time of war that the toga was in the time of peace. This sort of gown was called picta, from the rich embroidery with figures in Phrygian work; and purpurea, because the groundwork was purple. The chlamyes of the emperors were all purple, adorned with a golden and embroidered border.