114 G. MASPEUOj 



Beit-Djibiin is too distant from the countiy where the vicinity 

 of Kharbet Fouteis obliges us to remain, for allowable per- 

 sistence in this opinion. I thought for a moment of Azion- 

 Gaber, "^l^'^V^V, but this town is too far toward the south. 

 I will rather seek our village of Gabri and its stream in 

 the vicinity of el-Gabra l.£^^U a little to the east of Oumm 

 er-Roumanin. El-Djabri is in fact the Arabic equivalent for 

 the Hebrew 11-J. The torrent of the Hero is followed by the 



Torrent of Blessings (Nos. 75-76) ]M, J ^ ^^ t>:^ -f) \ 

 ^^ (jf) J r^-^^ Shahhalout-OuaraUt, where the Hebrew n3"?5, 

 n3"^ljl, plural ni^^l, has its^ transcribed -^ Oua, according to 

 the dialectic pronunciation wdiich I have indicated above.* 

 This locality is certainly different from the Valley of Blessing 

 (Ip^l p^y of Chronicles,t but the site is uncertain. 



^^ W f'^^''"^ i'^^sOl^^^^ ^" haqra n-Azai 



(Nos. 77-78) includes the 'wwva n of connexion which we have 

 already liad in Shahhalout ni-gahri ; the determinative of the 

 flame Ql belongs to the sense of the Egyptian and not to that 



of the Semitic word : o-=-i^1!] "■^<^'^' belongs either to t5^ 

 goat, or to t^^tij^, strength, poioer, fortitude. Site unknown. 

 ^^ J^^ Q ^ r^^"^ (No. 79) Adidima, according toBrugsch's 

 copy, I may belong to the root THV indmt ornamentum, 

 ornavit se : this Avill then be a form analogous to that of 

 D^n^'li^ Aditha'im (double adornment) which designates a 

 town of Judah. I am not aware of the site. ^ ^ ^ II ^ r^/^ 

 Zapaqa (No. 80) is the transcription which is admitted since 

 Brugsch proposed it, although indeed it shows no connexion 

 with any root known in Hebrew. Perhaps it may be per- 

 mitted to divide the word in two, the former part will be a 

 derivative from the root nD!i specidatus est, prospectavit, and 



the latter ^'^3 valley, but all this is too uncertain to dwell 

 upon. The two names that follow are helplessly mutilated 

 but No. 83 S ^^ "K (1 Ganat gives us a well-known 



term T\'h'^ garden; it is perhaps the Kharbc^t Jenneta \xj>- <i*,^, 

 which is situated at some distance to the south-west of 



* See above, p. 20. 



t 2 Chron. xx, 26, cfr. in .Josephus, Arch., ix, 1, 3. 



1 Brugscl), Geogr. Ins., T, II, pi. xxiv, No. 79. 



