1 2. AIAH, is a Hebrew term, which St. Jerom translates Vulture, Bochart believes it to signify the Merlin; the Syriac renders it Raven, and the Arabic Owl.
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Translators’ note. This Magistrate in Babylonia was called in the Jew- ish Language Rosh-Golah, i. e. the head of the Captivity. The Jews of Alexandria had their Alabarchs, and the Jews of Antioch their Ethnarchs; and after this they had in most places of their dispersions their Patriarchs for the same purpose; and there are in the Imperial Laws Edicts concerning them, Prid. Connect. &c. Part. 2. B. 4 ↩