mîen, sir; môve, nör, son; bûll, bür, rule; myrrh.-C, G, ç, &, soft; C, E, C, ğ, hard. & as z; as gz.

Z.

Zăb'a-tus

Zăb-di-ce'ne

Za-bir'na

Zăb'u-lus

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RULES

FOR

PRONOUNCING

SCRIPTURE PROPER NAMES.

THE following Vocabulary of Scripture Proper Names exhibits the pronunciation of Walker, together with various deviations from Walker, found in Oliver, Perry, and Fulton and Knight.

The pronunciation of Oliver, Perry, and Fulton and Knight, is inclosed in brackets. The abbreviation O. stands for Oliver; P. for Perry; and F. for Fulton and Knight.

One of the principal differences between the pronunciation of the Hebrew, and that of the Greek and Latin proper names, relates to the sound of the letter g, which, in words from the Greek and Latin, is soft before e, i, and y, as, Gellius, Gippius, Gyas; but, in words derived from the Hebrew, it is hard, as in Gerizim, Gideon. Several Hebrew proper names, however, by passing through the Greek of the New Testament, have become conformed to the Greek pronunciation by softening the g; as, Genesareth, Bethphage.

The letters ch are pronounced like k; as, Chebar (kē'bar), Enoch (ē'nok). The words Rachel, Cherub (an angel), and Cherubim, are anglicized, the ch being sounded as in cheer; but Cherub, the name of a city, pronounced ke'rub.

The pronunciation of most of the words in the following Vocabulary will be readily understood by the mode in which they are exhibited. With regard to a few words, the following rules are to be observed:

1. The c, s, and t, before ia, ie, io, and iu, preceded by the accent, take the sound of sh, as explained in the first rule for the pronunciation of Greek and Latin Proper Names.

2. When the vowels ia follow an accented vowel, the a is articulated by the i, like y consonant ; as, Achaia, Isaiah, Micaiah, Caiaphas, pronounced