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Aujeh, an affluent of the Jordan, as Og, king of Bashan ; 

 Ajlun as Eglou, king of Moab, &c. 



And if personal and ethnic names have been thus sown in 

 the earth, no less have attributes of Godhead grown into titles 

 of renown, and clad heroes of old with mantles from the skies, 

 so that numina nomina is as true as the converse nomina 

 numina. 



If Laban, and Makhir, and Gad, and Adrammelek were 

 names of gods, they were borne by men of the Old Testament 

 as naturally as the names Hermes, Nereus, and Phoebe, by 

 men and women of the New Testament. Erroneous inferences 

 have been drawn from this, the extreme use of divine names : 

 the subordinate use in compound names is very interesting. 



As in former papers, I must avoid the more accustomed 

 lore, and take up a selection of typical instances, for the most 

 part, perhaps, unfamiliar to the student of the Bible. 



With regard to local names within the Holy Land, the 

 great survey of Western Palestine, with its accompanying 

 books, quarterly statements, and memoirs, has given us an 

 almost endless amount of information, on which I shall draw 

 very little in this paper. The survey of Eastern Palestine, 

 now in progress under Lieut. Conder, K.E., will not be an 

 unworthy supplement to the former. 



Names containing Divine Titles. 



A large proportion of names personal and local were built 

 with the name or title of some god. Both in and out of the 

 Bible these words abound. For instance, Ab (father), Akh 

 (brother), Am (in the sense of kinsman), are constantly joined 

 to the names of gods, and I think generally used as a predi- 

 cate : Abiah, for instance, " A father is Yah." 



After all that has been said of the name Abram, may it not 

 be classed with Abi-ram, Akhi-ram, Adoni-ram, ond Malkhi- 

 ram, and Am-ram, and explained by the name of the god 

 Kamu* (>->f- l<^AJf j ? Hesychius gives 'Pajuoe, 6 tyurroG 

 0Eoc. Thus we have an Ab-ramu in the reign cf Esar-haddon,f 

 and an Akhi-ramu (a Syrian) in the Annals cf Assurbanipal, 

 and a Ba'al-ram in a bilingual Phoenician and Cypriote in- 

 scription.! We know that in Chaldea Abram's fathers 

 " served other gods/' and if indeed his original name was of 

 this class, then a divinely-given change of name would be the 



T.S.B.A., vii. 90. f Ep. Canon 69, Eec. iii. 52. J T.S.B.A., i. 155. 



