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HEALTH, or PRESERVATION, OF HIMSELF AND HIS 
FAMILY, IN THE MONTH SHEBAT OF THE YEAR 
DXLVII. 
4. That the letter n, (8) in Hebrew, Syriac, 
Chaldee, and Phoenician words, fometimes anfwered 
to the elements CH, or KH, fometimes to H, and at 
other times was quiefcent, or endued with no power at 
all, we may fairly infer from feveral inftances pro- 
duced on this head by the famous M. Bochart. 
From whence I fhall not fcruple to conclude, that 
the Palmyrene proper names of men in this infcrip- 
tion may be written in Latin either IARHiEVS, 
HALIBiLVS, and IARHiLVS; orIAR^VS,CHA- 
L 1 BALVS, and IARiEVS: which if we admit, the 
firft and laft of them are the very fame with one of 
thofe, that occur in the (9) feventh of Dr. Bernard’s 
Greek Palmyrene infcriptions; and the other one very 
well known in the neighbourhood of Tadmor. The 
lafi: point is clearly evinced by the word CHALEB, 
CHALIB, CHALIBON, or CHALYBON, the 
name of a city at no great diftance from Tadmor, 
which has been mentioned by the (10) prophet 
Ezekiel, Ptolemy, and Strabo. # 
5. That the language of this infcription is the 
fame, with that of the others copied by Mr. Dawkins, 
and confequently little different from the pure Syriac, 
(8) Boch. Thai. Lib. III. c. xiv. p. 220. Chan. Lib. I. c. xxii. 
p. 502. c. xliv. p. 765. & alib. pafs. 
(9) Edward. Bernard. Monument. PaJmyren. Infcript. vii. p. 4. 
Rotteraedami, 1716. 
(10) Ezek. xxvii. 1 8. Ptol. Geogr. Lib. v. c, 15. Strab. Geogr. 
Lib. xv. 
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