THE NAME NAPHATH DOR. 



The Old Testament seems to distinguish between Dor and 

 Naphath (or Naphoth) Dor. Whereas in Judg. 1:27 and in 1 

 Chron. 7:29 the simpler form "Dor" alone is used, the other 

 passages employ the compound name. Thus, in Josh. 11 : 2 the 

 name is given as 11*1 nl£3J » and in 1 Kings 4: 11 as ^^1 il^^ • In 

 Josh. 12:23 the reference is to Tjl rifi^*? *111; here the two names 



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are clearly distinct the one from the other. In the obscure phrase, 

 n5^n n*^b^' of Josh. 17: ll (end) it is probable that nfi^H (the 

 form of the word is corrupt) has reference to the preceding *1}<1 '. 

 The most likely explanation of the meaning of the word n£3^ is 

 the one which connects it with the old Semitic root CV\y " to be 

 high ". Thus in Arabic the verb is used for that which is *' long and 

 high" (/^^^y^ JLb Ij! ^yJ^i ^^)) and we find Yanuf (also written 

 Yaniifa, Taniif, etc.) as the ancient proper name of a mountainous 

 region in North Arabia; see Yaqtit s.v. Similarly the fourth stem 



participle, ^-ftA^xt , signifies "high", "lofty ", and is used especially 

 of buildings or mountains, also as the proper name of a mountainous 



district, a lofty fortress, and the like. The word for the overtop- 



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 ping hump of a camel, o*J , comes from this root; as does also the 



form wftAJ , "surplus", used in the sense of "over and above". 

 Cp. alsokiLAJ, "His Eminence", used as the title of cardinals'. 

 In the Hebrew^ the original meaning, "be high", seems to have 

 been retained in the Cll^ H^* » "beautiful in elevation", of Psalm 

 48:3\ Parallel with this meaning, however, and almost entirely 

 supplanting it, arose the use of the verb, principally in the Hiphil, 

 to mean "move to and fro", "brandish". Doubtless this signifi- 

 cation of the root arose from the fact that the brandished object, 



' See the discussion of the passage on pp. 45 ff . 



' Dozy, Supplement avx Dictionnaires Arabes, 738. 



'B.D.B., Heb. Lex., 1,11 C^^y 



^ So Engl. Rev. Version, Briggs, Baethgen, Duhm (who connects it with 

 KaAMOKo/MVTi = Fair-hill). Wellhausen, however, characterizes the word as 

 *' suspicious ", having " no appropriate meaning which can be established". 



