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attention to the particular terms of which it is 
compofed. The fignification of the two fhft 
words yrffiP BAAL SHEMESH, or DO- 
MINO bOLI, cannot well be miftaken. That 
the third word "10, MAR, may be tranflated into 
Latin either (13) DOMINO or DEO, will by every 
onentalifi be eafily allowed. The fourth manifeftly 
appears to be ABILENVS, or in Latin by 
appofition ABILENO ; though the fecond, fourth, 
and fifth, of its letters have been fomething altered 
and effaced. The fifth 2DQ may be looked upon as 
the fame with SEOD, or (14) DOMICILIVM, 
HABIT ATIONEM, MANSIONEM, &c. the Sy- 
rians (if) fometimes fupprefiing Vau, and ufing 
Samech for Schin. The fixth "lNHDD, or (16) T1JT3D, 
anfwers to the Latin INCOLVMITATIS, SALV- 
TIS, &c. The feventh NET apparently denotes (17) 
FECIT, PERFECIT, ABSOLVIT, &c. the Sy- 
rians not feldom converting the Hebrew He in (18) 
verbs of this kind into Aleph. And the eighth, if 
(13) Edm. Caftel. Lex. Heptaglot. p. 2128. Val. Schind. Lex . 
Pentaglot. p. 1034, 1035. 
(14) Edm. Caft. ubi fup. p. 1648. Val. Schind. ubi fup. p. 814, 
815. 
(15) Seethe firft Roman Palmyrene infcription, as above ex- 
plained. Schind. ubi fup. p. 1826, & alib. 
(16) Vid. Targ. & Verf. Syriac, in Prov. ii. 7. & Caftel. ubi 
fup. p. 2450. 
(17) Caftel. ubi fup. p. 2928, 2929. Schind. ubi fup. p. 1399, 
1400. 
(18) Joh.Buxtorf. Thefaur. Gram. Hebr. p. 251, 252. Bafileae, 
1663. Buxtorf. Gram. Cbald. et Syriac, p. 161. Balileae, 1615. 
Schind. ubi fup. p. 313, 314, 315, See. 
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