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12 : 1 ; 13 : 8, 32 ; 14 : 3 ; 17 : 5 ; 20 : 8 ; 22 : 4 ; Juclg. 5 : 17 and Isai. 8 : 

 23, the root 13J? beyond is applied to the Gilead and Bashan (east) side of the 

 Jordan, it is applied in Josh. 5 : 1 ; 9 : 1 ; 12 : 7 and 1 Chron. 26 : 30 in 

 directly the opposite way, to the Ephraim and Judah (west) side of the 

 Jordan.* 



The only plausible explanation comes from the fact that the tribes 

 settled to the east and to the west of the Jordan spoke of each other as 

 heyonders ; and the song of Deborah shows in how bitter a spirit the 

 epithet could be employed ; while the address of Jepthah (the Gileadite) 

 seems to ignore the tribes on the west side altogether, as if they were not 

 Israelites. 



If the theory be tenable that the Abrahamidge or Terahites migrated 

 towards Palestine not from the direction of Kurdistan and Assyria, but 

 from Babylonia, by way of Yemen, up the east coast of the Red Sea, 

 through Midian, into Edom and Moab, long before the Exodus, it follows 

 that they would be recognized by the Horites or troglydites {Hor, a cave) 

 of Petrsea, as "foreigners" (Hebrews), and might possibly be compelled 

 by circumstances to accept the epithet. 



If part of this migration was represented by the Kenites, and if Moses him- 

 self was the sonf of the Kenite Scheik Jethro:]: and was sent by him to 

 bring another enslaved part of the migration, back, over the desert, to their 

 comfortable settlements in Petraa, — then it becomes probable that the name 

 "Hebrews" is merely a patronymic for Beni Heber, the descendants of 

 Heber the (original) Kenite. 



Gesenius long ago wrote : " Heber, the founder of the Hebrew race, Gen. 

 10 : 24, 25 ; 11 : 14, 15," and referred to the expression Beni Heber in Gen. 

 10 : 21, and the poetical expression Heber (Hebrews) in Num. 24 : 24. 



The LXX spells Heber, 'E,3£p, and ^EiSsp. He was son of Salah and 

 father of Pel eg (the Philistines). The Jews have always considered him 

 their national patronym. The Heber of Judges 4 : 11, 17 ; 5 : 24, is 

 spelled diflerently, i::n, LXX yafiep^ Chaber, and he must have lived a 

 century or two after Moses ; for he was a descendant of Hobab, son of 

 Jethro and brother-in-law of Moses. Many changes had occurred. The 

 Kenites were amalgamated with the other Hebrew tribes; and this wealthy 

 sheik, Heber, who had married Jael, lived in the extreme north of Pales- 

 tine, and was a friend of the King of Damascus. The rough spelling of 

 his name suggests a northern patois. 



In the word Ephraim, then, we may have merely another dialectic spell- 

 ing of the word Ebraim (Hebrews.) It is written in our Hebrew texts 

 tD'^Di*. APRIM, and is a sufficiently precise reproduction of the APURU 

 of the papyri. As the latins nasalized their final M, and ignored it in scan- 

 ning, so the Hebrew plural final im would disappear in Egyptian, and be 

 replaced by the regular Egyptian plural termination u. 



* Beyond the Arnon, beyond the sea, and beyond the river (Euphrates ?) are also 

 expressions in use. 

 t Son-in-law. 

 JThe same as, or the son of Raguel, " friend of God." 



