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known in. Egypt and Sinaitic Arabia, as I have already sug- 

 gested elsewhere.* 



Hori, Horai, Hurai', are perhaps derived from the Egyptian 

 god Horus, and Hur is supposed to be included in the same 

 category. 



Hori (like Seti, Ameni, and other names familiar enough), 

 is a pure Egyptian name. So is Hora (x~>n), and Har- 

 nefer is found in Egyptian inscriptions, meaning " the good 

 Horus." t 



MaharaY, nna, the name of one of David's valiant men. 

 is very interesting. It is derived from Mohar, a Semitic 

 word for a hero or champion which was introduced into 

 Egypt about the time of Kameses II. Compare the Cartha- 

 ginian Mahar-bal. 



Aziza is a curious name with which we compare the 

 Nabatheean god Aziz, and the well-known Abdul-Aziz of 

 these days. J 



From Egypt we gain much in the explanation of Biblical 

 names. Puti-p-ra and Puti-p-har (which involves the name 

 of Horns, not of Ea) are well-known. To these we add 

 Puti-el, a compound of Egyptian and Semitic exactly 

 paralleled by the Pet-Ba'al mentioned by Brugsch. Puti-el 

 was the name of the man (Egyptian ?) whose daughter was 

 the wife of Eleazar, son of Aaron, and mother of. Pinehas. 

 This name, Pi-nehas, Brugsch claims as Egyptian || (from 

 Nahasi, the negro ; perhaps he inherited a dark complexion 

 from Puti-el.) Lui (Levi) was the name of a high-priest of 

 Amen under Meneptah, and therefore probably contemporary 

 with Moses. 



May not Miriam be one of the many Egyptian names 

 beginning with Meri ? Rameses II. bore the well-known title 

 of Meriamen, and so did one of his daughters, while the 

 princess Merris^f (Meri, one of the younger daughters of 

 llameses) is said to have been the protector of Moses. 

 Now Miriam is called by Josephus Mariamne, and the same 

 form of the name became famous in the Herodian house. 

 Does not this make it probable that Meriamen was the original 

 name, perhaps shortened from aversion to the full Egyptian 

 form ? The same name Mariamne or Mariamme belonged to 

 a place in Syria, west of Emesa, and in this case it fieems 



* Trmis. Viet. Jnst., xv. 90. . t Deoeria Cat. MS&, CO. 



t Ezni, x. 27. ; Pierrot, Petit Man. 100. 



Trans. Viet. Imt., xv. 91. ; Ex. vi. 25. || Bru-sch, Hist, ii., 130. 



[ Euseb., Pr<rp. Ev., ix. 27.; Brugsch. Hist., ii. 112. 



