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likely enough that the name was that of Ramescs Meriamen, 
who founded (or refortified) a strong post in that part of Syria 
under his own name. 
The Egyptian women Shiphrah and Puah bore names 
which have been explained in accordance with hieroglyphic 
names in inscriptions.* 
That the Israelites should have among them a number of 
Egyptian names is also to be expected from their long con- 
tinuance in the land first of their refuge and prosperity and 
then of their bondage^ and I think they will be found on 
careful search. 
Amon is purely Egyptian, the familiar name of the great 
God. Asir is probably to bo taken as the name of Osiris. 
Compare Abd-osir and Osir-Shamar in a Phoenician inscrip- 
tion found in Malta, f 
Kheper, with the local name Gath-Kheper, bring to us the 
name given to the creator Ptah, and symbolized by the 
scarabseus ("^sn). It is curious, moreover, that th(* name 
of the late Pharaoh ^'Hophra^^ is given as in-in, as if 
it were the familiar Kheprfi of Egypt. It expresses, how- 
ever, the ^ j Ilaabra of the inscriptions. 
Surely Sia % and still more clearly Siaha (i<ni’»D)§ 
must be Si-aah, son of the Moon-god, and Akhi-ra is a cross- 
bred name, like Puti-el, a brother is RA,^^ the great Egyp- 
tian sun-god. 
Bathyah (n»n3) || the daughter of Pharaoh may well 
stand beside Bath-anat (or Bent-anat) the favourite daughter 
of Rameses II., the form of names being parallel and purely 
Semitic. 
The divine name Yah seems to me to be equally involved 
in 
the local name Beth-laJl^t^^llll iii 
the Karnak lists 
of Palestine of the time of Tiiothmes Ifl. 
it 
If it be really so 
well worthy of remark, and may fitly stand beside the 
name in the list No. III. in Mariette^s Karnak, which 
is 
Brugsch identifies with Penuel ^ ^ ^ i i i 
Beth-yah would be nearly equivalent to Beth-el. 
Another name, long before the Exodus, appears to contain 
the divine appellative Yah. It is the remarkable name of a 
* ;Sp. i>., Ex. i. 15 ; Vigouroiix, La Bib., ii. 230. 
t Cheyne, Isaiah, ii. 135 ; Exodus, vi. 24 ; Ebers, Acg., 159. 
X Neh., vii. 47. § Ezra, ii. 44. || Chron. iv. 18. 
Nc. 97. ** 312. 
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