by him,” the Amarna2 and Lachish3 letters contain the motif of a subject’s appeal to be remembered graciously by the king. In the Hadad Inscription, invocation of the god’s name is coupled with the god’s remembering Panammu.4 In the Nabatean inscriptions from Sinai, remembering “has a clearly religious sense: it is something the deity is to do.”5 The noun → זכר zākhār, “man, male,” does not belong to the same root, although many attempts have been made to find a common background.6 Today this word