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applicable to the heavenly or the earthly }3\T of nin\ (1) justifies us in 

 expecting some light from Assyrian ; (2) in presuming some idea suitable to 

 a palace. I suppose most of the houses at Jerusalem were low, and the 

 DVJb"]N would domineer over them, and above all the Temple ? 



Of course, a vague sense like " habitation " may just do. But I do not 

 see that it has any greater claim, at any rate, than " elevation " ; it looks, 

 indeed, very much like a guess. One may no doubt quote 1 Kings, viii. 13, 

 and say that ty is parallel to ^F)?^. But ^2\ TV2 may quite as well be 

 parallel to p3D (^rOB^ applying to both equally), for J1DO itself is a word 

 specially set apart for the heavenly as well as the earthly ^3>n (in passages 

 where p3D occurs). Of course, j13O is not vaguely " habitation," but 

 something firmly founded. I have no fresh light to throw. 



I gathered from Sayce that, though Guyard's evidence was not all equally 

 sound, the main part of it was sound ; he himself accepted the result. 



[See Cheyne, Isaiah ii. 155, where the opinion of M. Stanislas Guyard is 

 quoted with regard to the root sabal in Assyrian. 



It may be worthy of notice that Pierret gives in Egyptian (on the 

 authority of Brugsch) tsebu ( TV%V j[ ) " cf - X(JO(JU&e, trantccnderc, 



superare, elcvare, extollere" (vocab. 726), and notices (p. 739) that X& 

 ia aciitus, whence XG&KXj jaculum. Possibly a common root may have 

 existed at the bottom of these words and zabaL H. G. T.] 



The Rev. Robert B. Girdlestonc, Principal of Wydiffe Hall, Oxford : 



At your request I put down a few annotations on the interesting paper 

 which you are to read on the 16th. 



1. With regard to names personal and local. I do not know whether the 

 Balkh, and the Balkan Mountains, or Wallachia, might be compared with 

 the name Belka ; [not Wallachia, which is akin to Wales, &c., see Taylor, 

 Words and Places, 43. H. G. T.] ; but I should like to call attention to the 

 names you afterwards introduce, viz., Sihon and Eglon. They both end in 

 on, but on sounds local rather than personal ; witness the rivers Pison, 

 Gihon, Jordan, Kishon, Kidrou, Arnon ; and the places Ekron, JEnon, 

 Aijalon, Ascalon, Maon, Beth-horon, Chesalon, Ezion, Gibeon, Hebron, 

 Hermon, Sirion, Ijon, Lebanon, Sidon, Zion. Compare also Marath-on, 

 which answers in meaning, I suppose, to your own dwelling-place West-on. 

 The names in the new Palestine map have often dropped this termination. 



[I am glad Mr. Girdlestone has mentioned Marath-on, which should be 

 compared with Marath-us, and, as I think, Ma-Mortha or Morthia (name of 

 Shekein), and probably Marath-esium in Ionia ; all derived from Martu ? 

 H. G. T.] 



2. I do not feel sure that you are right in connecting the names Abram, 

 Amram,&c., with the god Ramu. The true God is called D1 O in Is. Ivii. 15, 

 Micah vi. 6, and Ps. xcix. 2, cxiii. 4, cxxxviii. 0. This fact suggests the 

 origin of such names as Adonirani. Abram's name, I venture to think, 

 means " exalted father," and when it was changed to Abraham we must look, 



