Nir Cohen addressed this in his post from a couple of days ago. In general,
first of all, the position of the term "ahi" in such names is exactly where
we would expect a theophoric element to be. Specifically, it is though that
"brother" as a term of endearment, famility and so on could refer to the
deity.
Shabbat Shalom,
Yigal
From: Yodan [mailto:yodan AT yodanco.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:01 PM
To: 'Yigal Levin'
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Hiram Hirom Huram
Yigal, shalom again,
I hope this is not a bother...
I haven't heard back on my question, so I thought I'll re-send the email
below with the question "why would AH = brother" be used as a reference to
deity? I understand the use of father as God, but why brother?