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not non, hamath, or chamath, as it has been 
written by Bochart (63). 
151 The next word, C3, apparently to be de- 
duced from the obfolete verb 03, altvm est, 
elevatvm est, &c. in the infinitive mood CD, 
from whence nO0, excelsvm, may with fufficient 
propriety be interpreted monvmentvm sepvlchra- 
le j as f— Id, a word of the fame origin, has actu- 
ally been interpreted by (64) Schindler and Clodius. 
Farther, C3 may be confidered as no other term 
than the Syriac CD, svggestvm, tribvnal (65), 
tvmvlvs, 6cc. the excifion of *Jod being common, 
as in py, for p% and CTO, for OW*', amongft 
the Phoenicians. Nor is the fignification afligned 
DD here more confonant to the true import of the 
radix, from whence it is derived, than to the tenor 
of that part of the infcription to which it belongs. 
16. 1 hat the Phoenicians wrote the Plebrew word 
J"TVD, strvctvra, or rather strvctvra ordi- 
nata, mn, and in conftruCtion mfi, cannot 
well be denied ; fince m’D was no other (66) term 
than pipi, or “lft, and it was common with the 
Phoenicians to expunge Jod> as has been juft ob- 
feived. 1 he verb fubftantive, in conformity to the 
Hebrew and Phoenician cuftom, has been apparently 
fuppreffed here. 
(63) Sam, Bochart. Chan. Lib. I. c. 3. 
(64) Val. Schind. Lex Pentaglot. p. 171. Hanovia?, 1612. 
Jo. Chrift. Clod. Lex. Hebraic. Sele£i. p. 72. Lipfiae, 1744. 
(65) Johan. Buxtorf. Lex. Chaldaic. & Syriac, p. <54 Ba- 
fileae, 1622. 
(66) Reckenberg. ubi fup. p. 598, 1563. 
17. For 
