398 PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE IONIAN'S, 



in the 27tli verse of the 2nd chapter.^^ A glance at parallel passages- 

 will at once shew that the youngest son of Jacob had no such 

 descendant as Jediael/" The men of Jemini, who doubtless named 

 Khan Minyeh-^' and contributed the Minyan connections that Hitzig 

 discovered among the Philistines, and whose record ap]Dears, Judges 

 iii. 15, 1 Sam. ix. 1, and elsewhere in Scripture, belonged to this 

 Jerachmeelite line. Ram left his seal of nomenclati>re on many a 

 Palestinian Rama and Pimmon ; his eldest son Maaz was the 

 ancestor of the Maachathites, whom the Israelites could not subdue, 

 and whose kingdom flourished in the days of the Kings ; and his 

 youngest son Eker, if there is any dependence to be placed on 

 etymology, was commemorated in Ekron, the Philistine city, and in 

 the Maaleli Acrabbim or Ascent of the ScorjDions in the south of 

 Palestine.-^® The Emim, who were the ancient inhabitants of Moab, 

 may possibly have been the families of Jamin, a. supposition which 

 the reference to Moab in 1 Chron. viii. 8, seems to justify, as well as 

 the form of the name.-'® 



In looking for the name of Jerachmeel in other records, we must 

 not expect to find the final dP Even in Palestine, his city, which 

 bore his name, is Jericho. This is a repetition of the Chaldean 

 TJrchoe; and Jerachmeel himself is Urukh, Ur-hammu or Orchamus, 

 the ancestral Babylonian. As Jerach, the moon-god, he connects 

 with Eam-sin and other lunar divinities .and monarchs.^"* His 

 memory is preserved in the Arabian traditions as Yerakh or Jorham. 

 He has geographical memorials in the Insulae Jerachseorum and 



15 Although the distinction between sons of Jamin and sons of Benjamin has been ofteu 

 perceived by commentators, it has been erroneously taken for granted that the former was a 

 mere abbreviation of the latter. 



i" Compare Gen. xlvi. 21, Num. xxvi. 38. 



17 Khan Minyeh represents Caphar-Naum. So the Septuagint version of Job renders Zophar 

 the Naamathite by Zophar the Minyan. For Minyan remains in Palestine see Hitzig, die 

 Philistaer. 



13 The form of Eker, Ekron, and Acrabbi is peculiar, mjin being the initial letter. Eker 

 would thus have a., sound approaching Geker, and Aorab would. give a perfect Cecrop. Tlie 

 scorpion and crab in many languages are derived from the latter word. 



19 The families of 1 Chron. viii. 8, etc.,'unite with those of the seventh chapter by the identit 

 of Shaharaim with Ahishahar of vii. 10. He is the grandson of Jed'iael and great grandson of 

 Jamin. 



20 Although the final I is preserved in certain languages, and is even found at times side by 

 side with the same root destitute of it, as a rule, it does not appear out of the Semitic area. 

 Seb, Sabus, Siva represent Shobal ; Zeraheen even is the modern name of Jezreel ; so that 

 Jerachmeel may be expected to stop at Jerach, or at farthest at Jeraehm. 



20» The root of Jerachmeel or Jerach is Chaldean, and designates the moon. Tlie 

 Jeraohmeelites were a lunar family, the Indo-European moon appearing in forms of Jamin, 

 the grandson of Jerachmeel. The Babylonian Sin is a lunar designation. Sm-Njmi may 

 denote Jamin. 



