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known in Egypt and Sinaitic Arabia^ as I have already sug- 
gested elsewhere.* 
Hori_, Horab Hnrai’, are perhaps derived from the Egyptian 
god Horus_, and Hur is supposed to be included in the same 
category. 
Hori (like Seti, Ameni, and other names familiar enough), 
is a pure Egyptian name. So is Hora and Har- 
nefer is found in Egyptian inscriptions, meaning the good 
Horns. t 
Maharai, nn», the name of one of David^s valiant men, 
is very interesting. It is derived from Mohar, a Semitic 
word for a hero or champion which was introduced into 
Egypt about the time of Kameses II. Compare the Cartha- 
ginian Mahar-bal. 
Aziza is a curious name with which we compare the 
Nabathasan god Aziz, and the well-known Abdul-Aziz of 
these days. j 
From Egypt we gain much in the explanation of Biblical 
names. Puti-p-ra and Puti-p-har (which involves the name 
of Horns, not of Pa) are well-known. § To these we add 
Puti-el, a compound of Egyptian and Semitic exactly 
paralleled by the Pet-Ba^al mentioned by Brugsch. Puti-el 
was the name of the man (Egyptian ?) whose daughter was 
the wife of Eleazar, son of Aaron, and mother of Pinehas. 
This name, Pi-nehas, Brugsch claims as Egyptian || (from 
Hahasi, the negro ; perhaps he inherited a dark complexion 
from Puti-el.) Lui (Levi) was the name of a high-priest of 
Amen under Meneptah, and therefore probably contemporary 
with Moses. 
May not Miriam be one of the many Egyptian names 
beginning with Meri ? Pameses II. bore the well-known title 
of Meriamen, and so did one of his daughters, while the 
princess Merris^ (Meri, one of the younger daughters of 
Pameses) is said to have been the protector of Moses. 
Now Miriam is called by Josephus Mariamne, and the same 
form of the name became famous in the Herodian house. 
Does not this make it probable that Meriamen was the original 
name, perhaps shortened from aversion to the full Egyptian 
form ? The same name Mariamne or Mariamme belonged to 
a place in Syria, west of Emesa, and in this case it seems 
* Trans. Viet. List., xv. 90. f Deveria Cat. MSS., 66. 
X Ezra, X. 27 ; Pierret, Petit Man. 100. 
§ Trans. Viet. Inst, xv. 91 ; Ex. vi. 25. || Brugsch, Hist. ii. 130. 
^ Euseb., Fraq). Ev., ix. 27 ; Brugsch, Hist, ii. 112. 
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