172 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OP EGYPT. 



of Judah (Ezra ii. 29 ; ISTelieiniah vii. 33,) may come from tlie same 

 "word, having lost the initial ay'>n. Nibhaz, the idol of the Avites 

 (2 Kings xvii. 31), which the Jewish interpreters imagine to have 

 borne the figure of a dog, is no doubt this Anub, coiTesponding with 

 the Egyptian Anubis. A city of Benjamin called Nob is mentioned 

 (1 Samuel xxi. 1 ; Nehemiah xi. 32 ; Isaiah x. 32), which, like 

 Nebo, especially from its connection with a Judean Madmannah, in 

 the latter reference answering to Madmen of Moab, may be a corrup- 

 tion of the name of the son of Coz. Even Ishbi-benob, the son of 

 the giant (2 Samuel xxi. 16), may have taken his name from the 

 E.ephaim or Anakim who were expelled from Anub. The sister of 

 Anub was Zobebah. I have not discovered any Bible connection- 

 for this name, unless it survive in Baal-Zebvib, the god of Ekron ; 

 but Kubeibeh near Ziklag and Sukkariyeh (an Ashchurite form), 

 Kubab not far from Enab and Nuba, and many similar names ■ in 

 Palestine, commemorate this Ammonian princess.'' Haruni suggests 

 Hermon and many similar names, as well as the Greek Hermes, 

 His son Acharchel bears a name akin to that of Aharah, a son of 

 Benjamin (1 Chron. viii. 1), or rather, as it seems to me, of Jamia, 

 son of Ram (hence Ha-ram), mentioned in 1 Chron. ii. 27 ; vii. 6, 

 the connection being by marriage, perhaps with Zobebah. A similar 

 name, which, like the majority of those mentioned in Scripture, is 

 susceptible of a Hebrew meaning, although it by no means follows 

 that such was its interpretation, is that of Barachel the Buzite, of 

 the kindred of Ram (Job xxxii. 2), who has been unnecessarily 

 supposed to descend from Buz, the uncle of Aram (Genesis xxii. 21)y 

 because Huz, the brother of this Buz, may have given his name to 

 the place in which Job dwelt. There is also a Berachah among the 

 mighty men of David (1 Chron. xii. 3). There are several reasons 

 for connecting with the name of Aharhel that of Barzillai the 

 Gileadite (2 Samuel xvii. 27, &c.) The root of this name is Barzil, 

 signifying " iron," and the same metal was sacred to the Assyrian 

 Bar-il or Hercules, who is united with Ninip or Anub.^ The 

 region inhabited by Barzillai was (2 Samuel xix. 31,) Rogelim in 

 Gilead, a name which connects at once with Acharchel. In Ezra ii. 

 61, the children of Coz and those of Barzillai are spoken of 

 together, the Levites bearing these names having married into the 



' Ritter, iii. 248 ; iv. 235. 



8 Rawlin.son's Herodotus ; appendix, Book i. ; Essay x. 



