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Shihau, where M. de Vogile found a magnificent bas-relief of 
a king, is the same word as Sihon, king of the Amorites ; the 
Aujeh, an affluent of the Jordan, as Og, king of Basban ; 
Ajlun as Eglon, king of Moab, &c. 
And if personal and ethnic names have been thus sown in 
the earth, no less have attributes of Godhead grown into titles 
of renown, and clad heroes of old with mantles from the skies, 
so that numina nomina is as true as the converse nomina 
numina. 
If Laban, and Makhir, and Gad, and Adrammelek were 
names of gods, they were borne by men of the Old Testament 
as naturally as the names Hermes, Nereus, and Phoebe, by. 
men and women of the New Testament. Erroneous inferences 
have been drawn from this, the extreme use of divine names : 
the subordinate use in compound names is very interesting. 
As in former papers, I must avoid the more accustomed 
lore, and take up a selection of typical instances, for the most 
part, perhaps, unfamiliar to the student of the Bible. 
With regard to local names within the Holy Land, the 
great survey of Western Palestine, with its accompanying 
books, quarterly statements, and memoirs, has given us an 
almost endless amount of information, on which I shall draw 
very little in this paper. The survey of Eastern Palestine, 
now in progress under Captain Conder, B.E., will not be an 
unworthy supplement to the former. 
Names containing Viclnc Titles. 
A large proportion of names personal and local were built 
with the name or title of some god. Both in and out of the 
Bible these words abound. For instance, Ab (father), Akh 
(brother). Am (in the sense of kinsman), are constantly joined 
to the names of gods, and I think generally used as a predi- 
cate : — Abiah, for instance, A father is Yah.^-’ 
After all that has been said of the name Abram, may it not 
be classed with Abi-ram, Akhi-ram, Adoni-ram, and Malkhi- 
ram, and Am-ram, and explained by the name of the god 
Bamu* ) ? Hesychius gives 'Pagac, 6 v'^urroq 
dtoQ. Thus we have an Ab-ramu in the reign of Esar-haddon,f 
and an Akhi-ramu (a Syrian) in the Annals of Assurbanipal, 
and a Ba^al-ram in a bilingual Phoenician and Cypriote 
instription.f We know that in Chaldea Abram^s fathers 
* T.8.B.A., vii. 90. 
t Ep. Canon 69, Bee. iii. 52. 
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% T.S.B.A., i. 155. 
