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man in Egypt in the time of Amenhotep I. Kafeniaa 
The first element is :£:n/' which occurs 
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Khafni (Hophni) a pugilist^ and is also found among names 
in Himyaritic inscriptions. f The composite name would 
mean a combatant is Yah.^^ 
Some other Eguptian Names. 
It is worth while to mention^ by the way, that one of the 
earliest Egyptian names in Holy Scripture, Hagar, occurs as the 
name of a king of the XXIXth dynasty 
Hagh’) known by the Greeks as Achoris ; Brugsch spells the 
name Hagar. 
Takhpenes (DOSnn) is the name of an Egyptian queen J whose 
sister married Hadad the Edomite in the time of Solomon. 
Now the name Ta-apenha occurs as that of the Mother of 
Aahmes,§ an officer of Darius in Egypt. The local name 
given as Tahpanhes appears as Ta-benet in the Delta, the 
Greek Daphnm Pelusim, and the present Tell-Defenneh, if 
Brugsch be right. || 
I fancy that some Biblical names may throw light on the 
interesting question of the race to which we must ascribe the 
beautiful queen Thii [|(j W, the consort of Amenhotep III., 
who is believed to have been a foreign princess, and who 
appears to have introduced the worship of the solar disk 
(Aten). Her father’s name wms luaa, and her mother’s 
Tuaa. In the Louvre is a group of an Egyptian nobleman,^ 
with his wife Taei', and their infant. Her complexion, like 
that of Queen Thii, and this race, is painted rosy, and not 
yellow like the Egyptian women. luiu, Uai, Xai, are names 
belonging to the same race, neither Egyptian nor Semitic.* ** 
It was conjectured by M. Emman. de Rouge that they were 
Libyans. But we find some names in the Bible of a similar 
cast, and in a quarter with which the Egyptians had much to 
do. We find a Tai,tt Toil (or Thai, Thoii) king of Hamath, 
with a son luram, or loram. (Heb. oru’n; and D”ir, 
or Hadoram). Now Hamath was at that time (of David) 
* Lleblein, 1). de Noms, p. 183 ; Brngscli, Hut., i. 255. 
t Rev. des Etudes Juives, i. 50. t 1 Kings, xi. 19. __ 
§ Cooper, Arch. Diet. 1| Brugsch, Hist, ii. 358. 
*iT M. I)e Rouge, Du Louvre, 32. Pierret, Die., 533. 
tt 2 Sam,, viit 8, 9 ; 1 Ch., xviii. 9. 
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