According to Ernst Knauf, "El Shaddai" means "God of the Wilderness" and originally would not have had a doubled "d". He argues that it is a loanword from Israelian Hebrew, where the word had a "sh" sound, into Judean Hebrew and hence, Biblical Hebrew, where it would have been śaday with the sound shin.[citation needed] In this theory, the word is related to the word śadé meaning "the (uncultivated) field", the area of hunting (as in the distinction between beasts of the field, חיות השדה, and cattle, בהמות). He points out that the name is found in Thamudic inscriptions (as 'lšdy), in a personal name "Śaday`ammī" used in Egypt from the Late Bronze Age until Achaemenid times, and even in the Punic name "bdšd" (Servant of Shadé or Shada).[8]