man in Egypt in the time of Amenliotep I. Kafeniaa 

 J^A (j j^ The first element is jan, * which occurs in 



Khafni (Hophni) a pugilist, and is also found among names 

 in Himyaritic inscriptions, f The composite name would 

 mean " a combatant is Yah." 



Some other Egyptian names. 



It is worth while to mention, by the way, that one of the 

 earliest Egyptian names in Holy Scripture, Hagar, occurs as the 



name of a king of the XXIXth dynasty IT] 



Hag'r) known by the Greeks as Achoris ; Brugsch spells the 

 name Hagar. 



Takhpenes (oosnn) is the name of an Egyptian queen J whose 

 sister married Hadad the Edomite in the time of Solomon. 



Now the name Ta-apenha occurs as that of the Mother of 

 Aahmes, an officer of Darius in Egypt. The local name 

 given as Tahpanhes appears as Ta-benet in the Delta, the 

 Greek Daphnes Pelusise, and the present Tell-Defenneh, if 

 Brugsch be right. || 



I fancy that some Biblical names may throw light on the 

 interesting question of the race to which we must ascribe the 



beautiful queen Thii ^, the consort of Amenhotep III., 

 who is believed to have been a foreign princess, and who 

 appears to have introduced the worship of the solar disk 

 (Ateri). Her father's name was luaa, and her mother's 

 Tuaa. In the Louvre is a group of an Egyptian nobleman, ^f 

 with his wife Taei, and their infant. Her complexion, like 

 that of Queen Thii, and this race, is painted rosy, and not 

 yellow like the Egyptian women. luiu, Uai, Na'i, are names 

 belonging to the same race, neither Egyptian nor Semitic.** 

 It was conjectured by M. Emman. de Bouge that they were 

 Libyans. But we find some names in the Bible of a similar 

 cast, and in a quarter with which the Egyptians had much to 

 do. We find a Tai,tf or Toil (or Thai, Thou) King of Hamath, 

 with a son luram, or loram. (Heb. yn oriynj and DIV, 

 or oinn, Hadoram). Now Hamath was at that time (of David) 



* Lieblein, D. de Noms, p. 183 ; Brugscli, Hist., i. 255. 



t R dcs etudes Juives, i. 50. I 1 Kings, xi. 19. 



Cooper, Arch. Diet. |j Brunch, Hist., ii. 358. 



i" DC Eouge Mons. du Louvre, 32. ; '"' Herret, Die., 533. 

 ft 2 Sain., viii. 8, 9 ; 1 Ch., xviii. 9. 



