likely enough, that the name was that of Rameses Meriamen, 

 who founded (or refortified) a strong post in that part of Syria 

 under his own name. 



The Egyptian women Shiphrah and Puah bore names 

 which have been explained in accordance with hieroglyphic 

 names in inscriptions.* 



That the Israelites should have among them a number of 

 Egyptian names is also to be expected from their long con- 

 tinuance in the land first of their refuge and prosperity and 

 then of their bondage, and I think they will be found on 

 careful search. 



Amon is purely Egyptian, the familiar name of the great 

 God. Asir is probably to be taken as the name of Osiris. 

 Compare Abd-osir and Osir-Shamar in a Phoenician inscrip- 

 tion found in Malta, f 



Kheper, with the local name Gath-Kheper, bring to us the 

 name given to the creator Ptah, and symbolized by the 

 scarabseus (isn). It is curious, moreover, that the name 

 of the late Pharaoh "Hophra" is given as jren, as if 



it were the familiar Khepra of Egypt. It expresses, how- 



p _ v 

 ever, the OJ[" "^, Haabra of the inscriptions. 



Surely Sia (KJPD) J and still more clearly Siaha (Knj?>o) 

 must be Si-aah, son of the Moon-god, and Akhi-ra is a cross- 

 bred name, like Puti-el, " a brother is Ra," the great Egyp- 

 tian sungod. 



Bathyah (rvna) || " the daughter of Pharaoh " may well 

 stand beside Bath-anat (or Bent-anat) the favourite daughter 

 of Rameses II., the form of names being parallel and purely 

 Semitic. 



The divine name Yah seems to me to be equally involved 



in the local name Beth-iaj'<^ |[](j^g^[m the Karnak lists 

 of Palestine of the time of Thothmes III. If it be really so 

 it is well worthy of remark, and may fitly stand beside the 

 name in the list No. III. in Mariettas Karnak, which 



Brugsch identifies with Penuel ^1 >^ i i i &^Po&Mlfat f i l & 

 Beth -yah would be nearly equivalent to Beth-el. 



Another name, long before the Exodus, appears to contain 

 the divine appellative Yah. It is the remarkable name of a 



* Sp. B., Ef. i. 15 ; Visouroux, La Sib., ii. 230. 

 t Cheyne, Isaiah, ii. 135 ; Ex. vi. 24 ; Ebers, Aeg., 159. 

 t Neh., vii. 47. Ezra, ii. 44. || Chron. iv. 18, 



t No. 97. ** 312. 



