In the word _seneh_ a popular etymology seems to have been found for the name of Mount Sinai. Hence it is that in Deut. xxxiii. 16, Yahveh is described as ‘him that dwelt in the _seneh_.’ The _seneh_ was probably the small prickly _acacia nilotica_. Footnote 165: No satisfactory etymology of the name Yahveh has yet been found. This, however, is not strange, considering that the etymology was unknown to the Hebrews themselves, as is shown by the explanation of the name in Exod. iii. 14, where it is derived from the Aramaic _hewâ_, the Hebrew equivalent being _hâyâh_, with _y_ instead of _w_ (or _v_). The Babylonians were also ignorant of the original meaning of the word, since one of the lexical cuneiform tablets gives _Yahu_ or Yahveh as meaning ‘god’ (in Israelitish), and identifies it with the Assyrian word _yahu_, ‘myself’ (83, 1-18, 1332 _Obv._; Col. ii. 1). No certain traces of the name have been found except among the Israelites. It is a verbal formation like _Jacob_, _Joseph_, etc. Footnote 166: Maspero, _Dawn of Civilisation_, pp. 132-134. Footnote 167: For ‘strikes’ among the Egyptian artisans, see Spiegelberg, _Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung im Pharaonreich unter den Ramessiden_ (1895). Footnote 168: At Tel el-Maskhuta, or Pithom, however, the bricks were not mixed with straw. Footnote 169: See Wiedemann, _Religion der alten Aegypter_, pp. 142 _sq._ Footnote 170: Exod. vii. 19 contains an exaggeration which could easily be omitted without any injury to the sense of the narrative. The change of water in the river would affect the canals and such pools and ponds as were fed from the Nile, but nothing else. The river-water is not considered fit for drinking in the early days of the inundation. The green and slimy vegetation brought from the Equatorial regions renders it quite poisonous, and it is not until some days after it has become ‘red’ that it is again fit to drink. Footnote 171: The ‘camels’ mentioned along with the cattle in Exod. ix. 3 have been inserted from an Israelitish point of view. The Egyptians had no camels; and though the Bedâwin doubtless used them from an early period, none were employed by the Egyptians themselves until the Roman or Arab age. Footnote 172: