more naturally explained. The new name Ab-raham, generally 

 interpreted as " father of a multitude " is elucidated by Harkavy 

 in the light of the Assyrian rahimu, loving, as " loving 

 father/' Compare with this in sense, Isaiah, xli. 8. " Abraham 

 that loved me," although the verb is different. I do not say 

 that Harkavy is right. 



Very many names of this class are obvious enough, as 

 Akhi-yah, Abi-yah, Ammi-el, Ammi-shaddai, but in many 

 cases we have not yet traced with certainty the latter ele- 

 ment. 



Akhi-man was one of the "three sons of Anak"* whom 

 Caleb drove out from Hebron. Is the man in this name 

 " Manu the Great " of the Babylonians, the god of fate ?f 



In the group of names ending in " hud " (Abihud, 

 Akhihud, Ammihud, Ishhud) is this the Hud of the Egyptians, 

 the solar winged disk, or may it be the Akkadian sungod Ud, 

 or are both identical ? 



Akhi-moth seems to involve the name of the Pho3nician 

 Pluto, Moth.f The local names Hazar-maveth or Hazai*- 

 moth, and Az-maveth or Beth-azmaveth, are parallel. 



In Abi-melek, Akhi-melek I think we have a similar case, 

 the name of the god Melek or Molek being compounded; 

 which is, of course, rather an epithet, like Ba'al, than a name. 



In Abi-no'am and Akhi-no'am a title of Tammuz may be 

 found, as Mr. Cheyne has so well pointed out in the Syrian 

 Na'aman. 



In Assyrian annals we have Akhi-melek, Abi-melek, Akhi- 

 tob, and the like. 



I think Tob must be distinctly a divine title. It is, however, 

 obvious that it was a gradual growth that gave such epithets 

 as " good," "high," "just," the force of a separate divine 

 personality; and they were challenged for their rightful owner 

 in such names as Tob-adoni-Yah, just as another familiar 

 heathen title in Ba'alyah " the master is Jehovah," or Yobel.|| 

 How curious is the name of a son of David (whose mother 

 was one of the wives whom he took in Jerusalem) 

 Ba'alyada, elsewhere called El-yada ("Ba'al knoweth," " God 

 knoweth.") 



Even Zedek in Adoni-zedek and Melki-zedek may be the 

 god of the Phcsnicians. Melkizedek may have had a heathen 

 or half-heathen name given to him by such parents as Abram 



Josh., xv. 13. t CliaU. Magic, 130, 133. 



Lenormant, Les Origlnes, 54G. Isaiah, i. 104. 



Judges, ix. 26 ; Ixx. 



