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and the proof of it was my own, as "iven in cli. ii., sect, ii., of my 
Genealogies. I have not seen our Dean's Biblical Stmlies, to which you 
refer. 
The Rev. T. K. Clmjne, Fellow of Balliol : — 
A numher of combinations are quite new to me. iMaharai = Mohar is 
very attractive. Sq3pai^ Behai, Besai, Shiia, Zapur : Sheba, as connected 
with Sbat and Seb. (Do you mean that the connexion with “ seven ” is a 
Volksetymologie,'’ Gen. xxi. 30? or that “seven” is a numerical symbol 
for the Egyptian god ?) Can you trace a connexion between Bast and Baal, 
as objects of worship ? Otherwise, are we helped by the similarity of Beset 
and Bosheth ? [See below. — H. G. T.] 
Barzillai, Sheshai, Talmai. The first must be very plausible, for it strikes 
me at once that I have heard it before, and yet I do not think I have. 
I would rather not have to do with an Accadian god in a Hebrew name, 
until I am compelled (Ammi-hud). 
Zedek. It occurs as a separate divine name in Philo of Byblus, does it 
not ? Zidqa is evidently adopted from a god. 
Tob, I suppose, does not occur alone as a personal name (a region in 
“ Judges ”). 
Abraham : I remember Harkavy, but think it is delusive. Better an 
Aramaising pronunciation of Abram. 
Cain : very interesting. We had only a Himyaritic Qainu before ? 
Abil-irziti. ? comp. (mT5<) THTS the patronymic. 
As to names compounded with ab, ab, ach, &c., comp. P. de Jong, “Over 
de met ab, ach, enz, zamengestelde Hebreeuwsche eigennamen. Amsterdam ; 
J. Miiller, 1880.” Noticed by Graf Baudissin in the Leipzig Theolog. 
Literatur-zeitung, Jan. 1, 1881. I have no doubt you know Nestle’s Die 
Israelitischen Eigennamen, Haarlem: 1876. On the compound names the 
two appear to differ — De Jong thinking that Nestle and those who agree with 
him have gone too far. I have not seen De Jong’s book, and my prejudices 
are with Nestle. De Jong seems to think that divine names were sometimes 
otiose, and merely added to make a new name (“ like Hermobios with Bios, 
and Diogeiton with Geiton”). He so explains names like Abijah and 
Achijah. 
I see you have given Mr. Driver and myself the credit of the emendations 
in Samuel. Hitzig and Wellhausen were, as noticed in Q. P. B., our 
authorities. “ Wilderness of Kadesh.” Very plausible, supposing the 
psalm to be an early one. [Is it not, as generally accounted, “ a Psalm of 
David” ?— H. G. T.] 
Mr. Cheyne has also favoured me with the following valuable note on 
'pit, as interpreted “ height ” rather than “ habitation ” (p. 5), in confirma- 
tion of his views expressed in his work on Isaiah, vol. ii. 155 : — 
Two things seem clear — 1. That “pit is an almost forgotten Hebrew root ; 
in Gen. xxx. 20, the writer selects an alternative root lit (itself almost 
confined to proper names) to illustrate 2. That "PST was specially 
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