369.
[218] Very many of the names of the Semitic gods and heroes signify strong, _e.g._, _El_, _Adon_, _Baal_, _Etana_, _Kemosh_, etc.
[219] The final vowel _i_ would, on the basis of the explanation offered, be paralleled by the _i_ of Igigi--an indication of the plural.
See Delitzsch, _Assyr.

Gram._ Sec.

67, 1.
[220] The Igigi are designated ideographically as v plus ii, and Hommel (_Semitische Voelker_, p.

491) properly suggests that this peculiar writing points to an earlier use of five as constituting the group.
Hommel, however, does not see that neither five nor seven are to be interpreted literally, but that both represent a large round number, and, therefore, also a holy one.
[221] IR.

55, col.iv.ll.