53 Jeremiah xxii. 18, xxxiv. 5. In the former passage, according to the Massoretic text, the full formula of mourning was, “Alas my brother! alas sister! alas lord! alas his glory!” Who was the lamented sister? Professor T. K. Cheyne supposes that she was Astarte, and by a very slight change (דדה for הדה) he would read “Dodah” for “his glory,” thus restoring the balance between the clauses; for “Dodah” would then answer to “Adon” (lord) as “sister” answers to “brother.” I have to thank Professor Cheyne for kindly communicating this conjecture to me by letter. He writes that Dodah “is a title of Ishtar, just as Dôd is a title of Tamûz,” and for evidence he refers me to the Dodah of the Moabite Stone, where, however, the reading Dodah is not free from doubt. See G. A. Cooke, _Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions_, No. 1, pp. 1, 3, 11; _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, ii. 3045; S. R. Driver, _Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel_, Second Edition (Oxford, 1913), pp. lxxxv., lxxxvi., xc.; F. Baethgen, _Beiträge zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte_ (Berlin, 1888), p. 234; H. Winckler, _Geschichte Israels_ (Leipsic, 1895-1900), ii. 258. As to Hebrew names formed from the root _dôd_ in the sense of “beloved,” see Brown, Driver, and Briggs, _Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament_, pp. 187 _sq._; G. B. Gray, _Studies in Hebrew Proper Names_ (London, 1896), pp. 60 _sqq._ 54 This was perceived by Renan (_Histoire du peuple d’Israel_, iii. 273), and Prof. T. K. Cheyne writes to me: “The formulae of public mourning were derived from the ceremonies of the Adonia; this Lenormant saw long ago.” 55 1 Chronicles xxix. 23; 2 Chronicles ix. 8.