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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 423
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The ori Hebrew Proper ginal tex S Names ...
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Notices Of Books. 423
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 423
The Ori Hebrew Proper Ginal Tex S Names ...
The ori Proper ginal tex Names t , with of Historica the Old l and Testament Geograp , arranged hical Illustrations alphabeticall , for y the from of use the th of e
Hebrew Hebrew S and tuden Aramaic ts _^ Schoolmas Names ters , in the T New eachers Testament , with an . Appendix Williams and _isTorgate , London and Edinburgh .
We are notlearned enough , to review this work from a lady's pen as learnedlas it deservesbut every reader with a share of poetical
authoress imagination y has will iven find the , in derivation it the of germ the of Biblical . many names poems of . men The
to women give , countries their g et , ymology cities , mountains , ) togeth , er and with rivers of Bible the , ( where latter references it is possible derived and ,
historical from the and Rev . geograp A . P . Stanley hical notes ' s work . Many on Sinai Bunsen and and Palestine som are e . of The his authoress was assisted by in Baron von
learned G _^ erman iriends the explanation of the most difficult _wordssucit as the proper names of foreign origin , Egyptian ,
Assyrian , , and , Babylonian , and lays before us' the results of the latest discoveries .
Low Salem As every , we peac turn name e , over from has the the its Hebrew pages pictorial it verb is or wonderful sp to iritual be , peaceful meaning and curious . 1 . Samaria Such to see , as a
because watch mountain his mother ; Samson ct asked , sp him lendid of son the ; Lord Samuel " { , In heard like of manner God , , "Heuben means " behold a son" the first-born of Jacob being so
called by Leah his mother ; Rebekah , is " engaging , enchaining , " so called on account of her beauty ; David is " beloved , " from the
Hebrew verb to love ; Jonathan means " the Lord is a _^ iver , " much as the French sometimes christen their children JDieu donrie ; f
. ' Jordan is < the descender _^" the " A comin _strHung down illustration ' of the waters is contained of the in Jordan Joshua is iii precisel . 16 , where the the same word as that for
receive w used the ater ' in descends _^ of the in g to s alilee ingular the wi hi th g again i ncreased for lak the e it river lunge M rap erom idity itself t , h ou do . t wnwards of The h twenty which streams for - the seven three collected of y hundred ra Jordan ids _, volume throug feet - are _, first into h _^ of a
three fall sea of distinct a thousand _G- stages _^ feet - —the into first i p l ending ast s rec roug eptacle in the , Lake the Dead Merom Sea ; p . the It , second has thus sin the third in the Dead Thethird stage presents
the sea : of Galileeand Sea . _# t creased he unparalleled to two hundred spectacle ; b of the a infinite _course onl multi y sixty lication mile of s in _^ its actual windings ' length . It , in is - y p
. great called depression the ' _G-hor , , ' being or sunken no less p than lain , ' three by the thousand modern feet Ara below bs , on the account mountains of its heihts the Jordan
g - o ~ i f gantic the Judaea haunt green . - of A _^ s serpent the seen lions ' : from threading who * the from its adj the tortuous acent _neighborings way g throug Desert h its , sheltered trop _appears ical jung them ' le a -
selves in the reedy covert _^ . " ( Stanley . ) _<
named _Josepji because means ; she increase said , , / addi ' the tion Lord ; the shall first -born to me of - Rachel another was son so . "
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/63/
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