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served other gods/^ and if indeed his original name was of 
this class^ then a divinely-given change of name would be the 
more naturally explained. The new name Ab-raham_, generally 
interpreted as father of a multitude is elucidated by Harkavy 
in the light of the Assj^rian rahimu, loving, as loving 
father. Compare with this in senses Isaiah, xli. 8. Abraham 
that loved me,^"’ although the verb is different. I do not say 
that Harkavy is right. 
Very many names of this class are obvious enough, as 
Akhi-yah, Abi-yah, Ammi-el, Ammi-shaddai, but in many 
cases we have not yet^ traced with certainty the latter ele- 
ment. 
Akhi-man was one of the three sons of Anak whom 
Caleb drove out from Hebron. Is the man in this name 
Manu the Great of the Babylonians, the god of fate ?f 
In the group of names ending in hud (Abihud, 
Akhihud, Ammihud, Ishhud) is this the Hud of the Egyptians, 
the solar winged disk, or may it be the Akkadian sun-god Ud, 
or are both identical ? 
Akhi-m5th seems to involve the name of the Phoenician 
Pluto, Moth.J The local names Hazar-maveth or Hazar- 
moth, and Az-maveth or Beth-azmaveth, are parallel. 
In Abi-melek, Akhi-melek I think we have a similar case, 
the name of the god Melek or Molek being compounded; 
which is, of course, rather an epithet, like Ba^al, than a name. 
In Abi-no^am and Akhi-no^am a title of Tammuz may be 
found, as Mr. Cheyne has so well pointed out in the Syrian 
Na^aman. § 
In Assyrian annals we have Akhi-melek, Abi-melek, Akhi- 
tob, and the like. 
I think Tob must be distinctly a divine title. It is, however, 
obvious that it was a gradual growth that gave such epithets 
as good,^^ high,^^ ‘^^jusV' the force of a separate divine 
personality; and they were challenged for their rightful owner 
in such names as Tob-adoni-Yah, just as another familiar 
heathen title in Ba^alyah ‘Mhe master is Jehovah,^^ or Yobel.|| 
How curious is the name of a son of David (whose mother 
was one of the wives whom he took in Jerusalem) 
Ba^alyada, elsewhere called El-yada Ba^al knoweth,^^ God 
knoweth."’^) 
Even Zedek in Adoni-zedek and Melki-zedek may be the 
god of the Phoenicians. Melkizedek may have had a heathen 
* Josh., XV. 13. t Chald. Magic, 130, 133. 
X Lenormant, Les Origines, 546. § Isaiah, i. 104. 
II Judges, ix. 26 ; Ixx. 
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