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Title: Nineveh and Persepolis: an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia, with an account of the recent researches in those countries
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885
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Publisher: London : A. Hall, Virtue & co.
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cripture declares that he waskilled while worshipping in thehouse of Nisroch, his god, byhis two eldest sons. There has been much ques- Jrtion who the god was, who ishere mentioned under the nameof Nisroch. Yet there are cer-tain approximations to the know-ledge of this question which shallbe here stated. In the firstplace, all the Semitic languageshave retained what would seemto be the root of the name, withslight modifications of meaning.Thus in Hebrew, Syriac, ^thio-pic, and Arabic, the word nisrmeans either an eagle or a haivk,and appears to be derived froman unused root, meaning, totear in pieces with the teeth—torend as a bird of prey. Geseniushas sho\ra that the word is some-times used in a wider sense, andnearly corresponds with theGreek aieros, comprehendingseveral kinds of vultures ; thusin Micah, i. 10, tlie bjrd_is saidto be bald, and lo feed on dea^bodies, as in Job, xxx^xTTTT ; Proverbs, xxx. 17. In this caseit is probably the Vultur harhatus of the naturalists. On the
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Eagle-headed figure called Nisroch. 32 NINEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS. (chap. m. other hand, to the eagle, which changes its plumage at fixedperiods, must be referred the words of Psalm ciii. 5, thyyouth is renewed like an eagles. Bochart has discussed atgreat length, and with much learning, the different meaningswhich may be assigned to this word, and has come to the con-clusiou last stated. Pocock (Hist. Arab, p. 95), includes Alnaseramong the four idols who were worshipped before the Flood, andafterwai-ds adopted by the Arabs ; and Beyer, in his notes to Seldende Dis Syriis, inquires whether there can be any connexionbetween this deity and the beast described, Daniel, vii. 4 : thefirst was like a lion, and had eagles wings; I beheld till thewings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, andmade to stand upon the feet as a man, and a mans heart wasgiven to it; —and whether the monarchy itself might not be pre-figured under this type. It has been supposed that under thistype was

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