fome of the moft celebrated ancient writers ; and has 
been clearly evinced by (2) me, in a former paper. 
2. The word shemetz, fometimes denotes 
noise, or sound, according to (3) Schindler, 
Schmidius, and Cocceius, It is likewife taken in 
Scripture for a voice in the air (4), as we learn 
from Stockius. Baal shemetz, therefore, may be 
rendered dominvs mvrmvris soni, svsvrri, vel 
VOCIS IN AERE, THE LORD OF the NOISE, OF THE 
sound, ot* of the votCE in the air ; and confe- 
quently may be deemed perfectly equivalent to ZETS 
•KEPATNTOS, or jupiter the thunderer, in the 
•correfpondent Greek infcription. A new figuie of 
‘ Tzade here prefents itfelf to our view, which hat not 
been handed down to us by any other momument 
of the Palmyrenes. 
3. The following word, mo, or k*T)D> TIMOR, 
reverentia, veneratio, &c. appears, in the very 
fame fignification, (5) in two Palmyrene infcriptions, 
fome years fince by me explained. Nothing can be 
more common in the oriental languages than the 
el lip (is, or fupprefiion, of the verb >(6) fubflantive, 
which occurs here. 
(2) Pbilof. Tranf. Vol. XLVIII. Par. II. p. 748, 749. 
(3) Vid. Schindlerum Schmidium, Cocceium, Jo. Chrift. 
Clod. Lex Hebraic. Selefi. p. 509, 510. Lipfise, 1744. & Jo. 
Leonhard. Reckenberger. Lib. Radi C* Jive Lex. Hebraic, p. 1515. 
Jenae, 1749. 
(4) Chrift:. Stock. Clav. Ling. Sancl. Vet. Tcft. p. 1115. 
Jenae, 1721. It rauft be remarked, that the word shemf.tz, 
as explained here, will greatly illuftrate two paflages in the book 
of Job, (IV. 12. XXXVI. 14.) and decide in favour of the 
explication of thofe paflages given by Schmidius and Cocceius. 
(5) Phiiof. Tranf. ubi lup. p. 698. 
(6) Johan. Buxtorf. Thefaur. Grammat. p. 472. Bafllcae, 
•1663. 
4. With 
