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or lialf-lieathen name given to liim by sucb parents as xVbram 
bad, and yet have retained, or revived, as pure a worship of the 
Most High God as Abram offered. The name of Ba^al- 
zebul, lord of the height, like Bakd-ram, is a most fit title for 
the Most High God, but these and other sublime names were 
debased to hell by the many inventions of pantheism, and 
polytheism, and what has been called by Professor Max Muller 
^‘^henotheism.'’^ Xames compounded with Tdb, Zedek, and 
the like, remind us of Mr. Budge’s remark that there were 
temples erected in Babylonia to abstract qualities,* which are 
mentioned in fragments of cylinders of Nebuchadnezzar. 
Zidqa is the name of a king of Sidon in the records of 
Sennakherib. 
Other names are derived from those of gods with an addi- 
tion of ij as in patronymic cr gentilic names; as Barzillai from 
Barzil a title of Kinip an Assyrian god. Under this head 
I think Sheshai and Talmai, two of the sons of Anak,” 
conie. The former seems connected with Sheshan, and 
Shesh-bazzar, the numeral shosh (six) lying at the root, as a 
symbol of a god. It symbolized the god Bin or Kamanu. 
Ba’al Shalisha indicates ihrce. I have elsewhere traced 
‘^xVrba” (four) in connexion with Kiriath-xVrba’ and other 
places, t 
Sheba (seven) appears in Bath-slieba and other names, and 
may be connected with the god Sbat, and the Seb of the 
Egyptians. And Eshmun, (eight) the eighth of the Kabirim, 
is well-known. But these remarks on numerical symbols are 
parenthetic and illustrative of Sheshai. 
In like manner Besai seems clearly to indicate the god Bes, 
or Besa, of Arabian origin, of whom the Egyptians were so 
fond, his deformed visage being associated with articles of the 
toilet. 
Brugsch has very naturally connected with him the feminine 
Beset (or Bast) whose name appears in Pi-beseth (Bubastis) 
in Lower Egypt. 
I have often thought that the familiar play on the word 
bosheth (which in the Hebrew means shame ”) in connexion 
with Ba’al- worship may have some allusion to this goddess of 
Eastern origin. 
Sippai (or Sapi), >2D, and Saph or Sap, 2D, equally recal 
Sap, the god of the Eastern borders of Egypt. And Bebai 
seems clearly enough derived from Beb, a Typhonic name well- 
* Ch. Sunday Sch. Mag., 1880, 244. 
t Trans. Viet. Inst., 1877 : Studies on the Times of Abraham. 
