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applicable to the heavenly or the earthly of nin\ (1) justifies us in 
expecting some light from Assyrian ; (2) in presuming some idea suitable to 
a palace. I suppose most of the houses at J erusalem were low, and the 
D'JbiX would domineer over them, and above all the Temple ? 
Of course, a vague sense like habitation ” may just do. But I do not 
see that it has any greater claim, at any rate, than ‘‘ elevation ” ; it looks, 
indeed, very much like a guess. One may no doubt quote 1 Kings, viii. 13, 
and say that bqi is parallel to But n'3 may quite as well be 
parallel to applying to both equally), for flSD itself is a word 
specially set apart for the heavenly as well as the earthly (in passages 
where occurs). Of course, is not vaguely “ habitation,’^ but 
something firmly founded. I have no fresh light to throw. 
I gathered from Sayce that, though Oiiyard’s evidence was not all equally 
sound, the main part of it was sound ; he himself accepted the result. 
[See Cheyne, Isaiah ii. 155, where the opinion of M. Stanislas Guyard is 
quoted with regard to the root xahal in Assyrian. 
It may be worthy of notice that Pierret gives in Egyptian (on the 
authority of Brugsch) tsehii, ^ XUOUO.S.65 transcenderc, 
siq)erarey elevare, extollere^’ (vocab. 726), and notices (p. 739) that XGJSl 
is acutus, whence X6.S.KX, jacidum. Possibly a common root may have 
existed at the bottom of these words and mhal. — H. G. T.] 
The Rev. Robert B. Girdlestone, PrincqMl of WycUffe Hall, Oxford : — 
At your request I put down a few annotations on the interesting paper 
which you are to read on the 16th. 
1. With regard to names personal and local. I do not know whether the 
Balkh, and the Balkan Mountains, or Wallachia, might be compared with 
the name Belka [not Wallachia, which is akin to Wales, &c., see Taylor^ 
W ords and Places, 43. — H. G. T.] ; but I should like to call attention to the 
names you afterwards introduce, viz., Sihon and Eglon. They both end in 
on, but on sounds local rather than personal ; witness the rivers Pisonj 
Gihon, Jordan, Kishon, Kidron, Arnon ; and the places Ekron, -^Enon, 
Aijalon, Ascalon, Maon, Beth-horon, Chesalon, Ezion, Gibeon, Hebron, 
Hermon, Sirion, Ijon, Lebanon, Sidon, Zion. Compare also Marath-on, 
which answers in meaning, I suppose, to your own dwelling-place West-on. 
The names in the new Palestine map have often dropped this termination. 
[I am glad Mr. Girdlestone has mentioned Marath-on, which should be 
compared with Marath-us, and, as I think, Ma-Mortha or Morthia (name of 
Hhekem), and probably Marath-esium in Ionia ; all derived from Martu ? — 
H. G. T.] 
2. I do not feel sure that you are right in connecting the names Abram, 
Amram, &c., with the god Eamu. The true God is called Di 'O in Is. Ivii. 15, 
Micah vi. 6, and Ps. xeix. 2, cxiii. 4, cxxxviii. 6. This fact suggests the 
origin of such names as Adoniram. Abram’s name, I venture to think, 
means “ exalted father,” and when it was changed to Abraham we must look, 
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