in Egypt^ Arabia Petr^ea ^'c. g^7 



Tradt, where the Ifraelites were ordered to Encamp, appears 

 to have been called Tihabhiroth, i. e. the Mouth of Hhiroth. 

 For when Tbaraoh overtook them, it was (with Refpeft to 

 his coming down upon them : ) Ex. 14.. 9. [n-rnn »3 Sv] hefides 

 or at the Mouthy or furtheft Part of Hhiroth to the Eaftward. 

 In theBookofiVz^;;2^6'r5likewifeCh.33.v.g. where we have the 

 Relation of the Encampment of the Ifraelites before Migdoly 

 V. 7. it follows V. 8. that the)' departed [m'nn »jso] from before 

 Hhiroth, and not before Tihahhiroth, as it is rendered in our 

 Tranflation. And in the fame Signification it is taken by the 

 LXXII, Eufebius and St. Jerome, the former interpreting 

 Tihahhiroth by (-nJ -jd'^ Eip^) the Mouth of Eiroth, or Iroth as 

 St. Jerome writes it. For '-d (as Ben Ezra criticizeth upon 

 the Word) relateth to what lyeth before us, being called in 

 the Targum, [t^is] Thoum or ['as] Thoumi, as Hhiroth is ['^nTn j 

 Hirata, and therefore both of them are to be confidered as 

 diflinft Terms and Appellations. 



Hhiroth therefore, if it be taken for an Appellative, may have Hhiroth Je- 

 two Significations. It hath been already obferved that this^^wDe'fii^!'^ 

 Valley is clofely confined betwixt two rugged Chains of Moun- 

 tains. If then we deduce Hhiroth from [in] Hhor, or [th] 

 Hhour, a Hole or Gullet, (as the Samaritan and Syriac Copies 

 underftand it) it may, by a Latitude very common in thefe 

 Cafes, be interpreted fuch a narrow T)efiU or Paflage, as this 

 is. Tihahhiroth therefore, upon this Suppofition, will be the 

 fame as the Mouth or the moft advanced Part of this Defile. 

 But as the IJraelites were properly, at this Place only, deliver- 

 ed from their Captivity and Fear of the Egyptians, Ex. 14.. 15. or ^'f p/^u- 

 we may rather fuppofe, that Hhiroth denoteth the Place where ic?.^'''"" 

 they were reflored to their Liberty ; both [i^n] Hhorar and 

 [mrn] Hhiroth being Words of the like Import in the Chaldee. 

 In Rajloi\ Commentary, we have a further Confirmation of 

 this Interpretation. Tihahhiroth, fays he, is fo called, becaufe 

 the Children of Ifrael were made [onn '33 Beni Hhorim'] Free- 

 men at that Tlace. In the Targum likewife [rnn-p] Ben Hhorin 

 is ufed to explain ['^an] Hhaphfee, Ex. 11. z. and 5-. a Word 

 which denoteth Liberty and Freedom in thefe and other Parts 

 of the Scripture. And it may be once more urged in Favour of 

 this Explication, as well as of the Tradition that the Ifraelites 

 paflTed through this Valley, inafmuch as the eaftern Extremity 



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