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and the proof of it was my own, as given in eh. ii., sect, ii., of my 

 Genealogies. I have not seen our Dean's Biblical Studies, to which you 

 refer. 



The Rev. T. E. CJieyne, Fettoio of Balliol : 



A number of combinations are quite new to me. Maharai=Mohar is 

 very attractive. Sippai, Bebai, Besai, Shua, Zapur : Sheba, as connected 

 with Sbat and Seb. (Do you mean that the connexion with " seven " is a 

 " Volksetymologie," Gen. xxi. 30 ? or that " seven " is a numerical symbol 

 for the Egyptian god ?) Can you trace a connexion between Bast and Baal, 

 as objects of worship ? Otherwise, are we helped by the similarity of Beset 

 and Bosheth ? [See below. H. G. T.] 



Barzillai, Sheshai, Talmai. The first must be very plausible, for it strikes 

 me at once that I have heard it before, and yet I do not think I have. 



I would rather not have to do with an Accadian god in a Hebrew name, 

 until I am compelled (Ammi-hud). 



Zedek. It occurs as a separate divine name in Philo of Byblus, does it 

 not ? Zidqa is evidently adopted from a god. 



Tob, I suppose, does not occur alone as a personal name (a region in 

 "Judges"). 



Abraham : I remember Harkavy, but think it is delusive. Better an 

 Aramaizing pronunciation of Abram. 



Cain : very interesting. We had only a Himyaritic Qainu before ? 



Abil-imti. ? comp. (mtN) THT^ the patronymic. 



As to names compounded with ah, ab, ach, &c., comp. P. de Jong, " Over 

 de met ab, ach, enz, zamengestelde Hebreeuwsche eigennamen. Amsterdam : 

 J. Miiller, 1880." Noticed by Graf Baudissin in the Leipzig Thcolog: 

 Litcratur-zcitung, Jan. 1, 1881. I have no doubt you know Nestle's " Die 

 Israelitischen Eigennamen" Haarlem: 1876. On the compound names the 

 two appear to differ de Jong thinking that Nestle and those who agree with 

 him have gone too far. I have not seen de Jong's book, and my prejudices 

 are with Nestle. De Jong seems to think that divine names were sometimes 

 otiose, and merely added to make a new name (" like Hermobios with Bios, 

 and Diogeiton with Geiton"). He so explains names like Abijah and 

 Achijah. 



I see you have given Mr. Driver and myself the credit of the emendations- 

 in Samuel. Hitzig and Wellhausen were, as noticed in Q. P. B., our 

 authorities. "Wilderness of Kadesh." Very plausible, supposing the 

 psalui to be an early one. [Is it not, as generally accounted, " a Psalm of 

 David"? H. G. T.] 



Mr. Cheyne has also favoured me with the following valuable note on 

 ^3f, as interpreted " height " rather than " habitation " (p. 5), in confirma- 

 tion of his views expressed in his work on Isaiah, vol. ii. 155 : 



Two things seem clear 1. That *?3f is an almost forgotten Hebrew root ; 

 in Gen. xxx. 20, the writer selects an alternative root 13T (itself almost 

 confined to proper names) to illustrate jl^>3T. 2. That }3J was specially 

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