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Shobal (Slim), young lion (diminutive from JA, like 

 Win, hf\$, Ew. Lehrb. 167). 



Zibeon (ptfjs), hycena. 



Anah (rns), wild ass (&U). 



Dishon and Dishan ()mn, pm^) a sort of antelope, 

 Deut. xiv. 5. 



Thus of the &quot; sons &quot; of Seir, five have animal names 

 (Dishon and Dishan counting as two) . Again, the sons of 

 Zibeon are Anah (rm) and Aiyah (rn$). The former is 

 again the Wild ass, the latter the Kite. Dishon appears 

 again as a son of Anah. Of the sons of Dishan one is 

 the local name Uz ; the other is Aran (pj*), that is, the 



Ibex (Syr. (Ljjj^). Anah, however, claims further notice. 

 Anah is represented in three ways : (i) as daughter of 

 Zibeon, verses 2 and 14, Hivite in ver. 2 being admittedly 

 an old error of the text for Horite ; (2) as son of Se ir and 

 brother of Zibeon, ver. 20 ; (3) as son of Zibeon, ver. 24. 

 These various statements show that we have here no true 

 genealogy, but a systematisation of tribal facts. And one 

 form shows that the Horite animal tribes were conceived 

 as introduced among the Edomites in the female line, as 

 we should expect to be the case. The variations in the 

 position of Dishon or Dishan are similarly instructive. 

 They show that the Antelope stock was divided over the 

 nation in a way that puzzled the genealogist, whose tribal 

 divisions take a local shape. 



I cannot, of course, prove the worship of the animals 

 who gave names to Horite tribes. But the following point 

 seems worth notice. We know that one Arabic god was 

 worshipped in Edom, namely Kofe, Joseph. Arch. xv. 7, 9, 

 whom Tuch and Lagarde have identified with the rainbow 

 god Quzafr. I think I detect two other Arabian gods 

 among the names in Gen. xxxvi. At ver. 14 we have a 

 supplementary list of descendants of Anah through union 

 with Esau. One is an animal, Jaalam (3^) that is, 



