1881.] ^^ ^ [Lesley. 



■wliom it shall sprout;* this one builds (bnna) the temple of Jehovah. 

 This one shall build {ibneli) the temple of Jehovah ; and this one shall 

 wear hod, and sit and rule on Ms throne. ' ' 



V 7iua issa hod ; "and this (man) shall wecor •y)'^, majesty, splendor, 

 beautj^ brightness, (often coupled with HDR, ornament, decoration, 

 splendor, pomp, as in Ps. 45 : 4) used of Kings, 1 Chr. xxix : 25, &c., and 

 of a voice Is. 30 : 30, Job. 39 : 20. Here in Zach. it must mean some 

 regal insignia, a crown, or diadem. 



Now this hebrew word HUD corresponds to HT the white crown of 

 Upper Egypt, (TSa:R being the name of the red crown of Lower Egj'pt, ) 

 and to P'S^yN'T the combined crown of Upper and Lower Egj^pt, (p = 

 the egyptian article ; s = the formative, by which nouns are made verbs, 

 see below, and also the causative ; t = a final, often not radical, and not 

 certainly radical in this case). 



The double crown has for its root ;ifN= |n, in, TtU, in which form it does 

 not appear in hebrew ; (for, ^n means one ; sharp, to be sharp ; and nin 

 is to riddle, propose a riddle (Judg. 14 : 12) ; riTn ^'H artifice, a riddle, 

 parable, proverb ;) unless in the side meaning nnn to rejoice ; cognate 

 with pn beauty (Job. 41 : 2, spoken of trappings, ornaments). 



The white crown of Upper Egypt, the crown of the great Middle Empire 

 (XI, XII Dy.) the crown which carried the royal emblem the Urseus, or 

 Cobra, on its front, the crown of Thebes, the Up-country, the Upper 

 World, was called HT, (not ;fT,) and corresponds to the nn or iin of 

 Zacharias. 



The exact correspondence between the Egyptian and the Hebrew is 

 manifested by the fact that the root het (spelled with the globe standard 

 and snake) carries the general meaning of "brilliant, lightening, bright 

 and white." (Brugsch Diet, page 1015.) Sometimes the solar disk with 

 three descending rays is the ideograph ; and in one passage (Leps. D. iv, 

 48, a) Ba ur S'het '/eperu hi ti asep hi ma senen-f, (with ra after the crown 

 and after asep) "the governing sun illuminates {s'het-ra, makes white or 

 bright) all things, so as to give to exhibition (bring out to view) their 

 forms, ' ' we have an important suggestion of the causative force of the 8 

 in the name of the double crown p'S-Xnt. — This 7iet, followed by nub 

 (gold) means "silver," i. e., white gold, &c. — The Egyptian way of 

 spelling the crown with the standard, t, and the figure of the crown, 

 shows how they meant to intensify the ideas 1, of ornament and 2, of 

 dignity. 



The Egyptian simple letter h (the fret) in this 7iet corresponds to the 

 hebrew n ; but there is one striking analogy which shows that it is trans - 

 mutable also into n ; for, the Egyptian word ffAJHA (followed by a sit- 



*Phillippson. — Dewette translates it differently : "who shall sprout up in his 

 place." I think it plain that this sentence is an interpolated gloss, or attempt 

 to explain the meaning of the word Branch zemach ; but it is of no importance 

 here, because the meaning "branch" for zemach is accepted, both as verb 

 (Gen. 2: 5, 41 : 6) and noun (Gen. 19: 25, &c.). 



