740 PRIMITIVE MEANING OF SOME 



plural, as it sometimes agrees with singular, and 

 at other times with plural verbs. But Parkhurst 

 maintains, that it generally answers to the Greek 

 word OEOC, and expresses the universal extension 

 or omnipresence of the Divine spiritual essence, 

 moreover, that the idea of this attribute was taken 

 from celestial fluid in its three-fold condition of 

 light, fire, and spirit, operating jointly in every 

 effect. He also quotes the declaration of Dio- 

 dorus and Varro, that the Egyptian Jove was 

 identical with the Jehovah of the Jews, that 

 with some dialectical variations, the Phoenicians, 

 Etruscans, Romans, and other ancient nations, 

 gave the same title to the all-pervading fiery 

 JEther that was supposed to actuate the universe, 

 and to endow all beings with life. He further 

 states on the authority of Servius, that the Deity 

 was termed Al or El in the Phoenician language, 

 and that the Canaanites had a tower or temple 

 dedicated to the sun, btf, Al, according to Jose- 

 phus. (Hebrew Lexicon.) 



In accordance with these remarkable analogies, 

 it is stated by Godfrey Higgins, that the root 

 HUT Yeye or Yehovah, signifies in both Hebrew 

 and Sanscrit, to be, to live, and the self-existent 

 fire, which under that sacred title, the Brahmins 

 chaunted in their service. (Anacalypsis, vol. i. pp. 

 430, 468 ; and vol. ii. p. 249.) 



Nor is it surprising that the language, and many 

 of the Jewish customs, so nearly resembled those 

 of several oriental nations, when we reflect, that 



