Elephantine ( Bethlehem).
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 6:57 am
ἐλέφας, ἐλέφαντος ( Elephant)
- This word was first used by Ancient Greeks and originally refers too Ivory (not the animal) ( used in Homer, Hesiod & Pindar )
- The Latin word for Ivory, is Eboreus , Ebur .
אלופ ( ALUF )
- Thousand Gk. χιλιάς ( Chilias ) Lt. Mille > (Building fitted to grind grain ) Silo .
- Green Fodder for Cattle Gk. χιλός ( Chilos) ( Psalms 50:10 )
* in both Greek & Hebrew, χιλ- means 'fodder' (hay-stack) and 'thousand' , hence the expression "needle in a haystack" ( numerous) i.e thousand
(word extension)
AKL(אֹכֶל) "Food"
Culina " Food" ( Latin )
φάγημα (Phaghma) "food"
φάγεσθε (Phagesthe) "food"
ἔδεσμα (Edesma)
אָפָה ( Aphah) * Baked meat
לֶחֶם ( Lechem ) * Baked Meat/Bread
κλάσμα ( Klasma) *remnants of food
κλάω ( Klaw) *breaking of bread
λάγανα ( Lagana) *a thin broad cake
Thus the Hebrew word ' Lechem' is cognate with ' Phaghma, Klasma, Lagana e.c.t
* Gen 41:56-7
- Joseph opened up store houses ( Beth Lechem )
- nations came to Joseph to buy ( Agorazw)
- Lechem > Alechem > Alephen > ἐλέφαντος
* Beth Lechem is Elephantine
* Identifying the Elephant with Elephantine is a matter of folk-etymology
* Elephantine is a store-house, Granary , Market-place, House of Bread
Leviticus 2:6
- Thou shalt part (meat or bread) into pieces
- κλάσματα ( Klasmata) * remnants of food
In this verse, 'break apart bread' ( morsel) is פַּת/פָּתַת (Pathath)
- Gen 18:5 " morsel of bread "
- LXX ἄρτον καὶ φάγεσθε , PAGESTHE > PATHATH
- פַּת/פָּתַת (Pathath) derives from φάγεσθε ( Phagesthe)
φάγεσθε (Phagesthe) is the root word for פֶּסַח ( Pacach ) "Passover offerings " , NT - πάσχα ( Pasxa) .
Feast of Unleavened bread, known as מַצָּה (Matstsah ) is found in Aeschylus Agamemnon Verse 1035 ( written around 500 BCE )
"or even Alkmene’s son, men say, once endured to be sold and to eat the bread (μάζης) of slavery."
- μάζης' (Mazhs) = מַצָּה (Matstsah ) " Unleavened Bread or Barley Cake"
The Romans called the Greeks "barley eaters." The poor's barley bread would often even contain chaff in it, as the flour wouldn't have been finely sifted, it was also the food of the Romans gladiators and Spartan Helots.
The Ides of Nisan, coincides with the Latin festival Anna Perenna
* Barley-Cakes ( Matzo, μάζης ) are sacred to Anna Perenna
* Anna Perenna (Ides of March) Passover/Feast of Matzo ( Ides of Nisan)
* Ovid identifies Anna Perenna with the sister of Dido ( founder of Carthage)
* The ' Passover' Letter of Elephantine ( Passover is Spartan in origin )
- This word was first used by Ancient Greeks and originally refers too Ivory (not the animal) ( used in Homer, Hesiod & Pindar )
- The Latin word for Ivory, is Eboreus , Ebur .
אלופ ( ALUF )
- Thousand Gk. χιλιάς ( Chilias ) Lt. Mille > (Building fitted to grind grain ) Silo .
- Green Fodder for Cattle Gk. χιλός ( Chilos) ( Psalms 50:10 )
* in both Greek & Hebrew, χιλ- means 'fodder' (hay-stack) and 'thousand' , hence the expression "needle in a haystack" ( numerous) i.e thousand
(word extension)
AKL(אֹכֶל) "Food"
Culina " Food" ( Latin )
φάγημα (Phaghma) "food"
φάγεσθε (Phagesthe) "food"
ἔδεσμα (Edesma)
אָפָה ( Aphah) * Baked meat
לֶחֶם ( Lechem ) * Baked Meat/Bread
κλάσμα ( Klasma) *remnants of food
κλάω ( Klaw) *breaking of bread
λάγανα ( Lagana) *a thin broad cake
Thus the Hebrew word ' Lechem' is cognate with ' Phaghma, Klasma, Lagana e.c.t
* Gen 41:56-7
- Joseph opened up store houses ( Beth Lechem )
- nations came to Joseph to buy ( Agorazw)
- Lechem > Alechem > Alephen > ἐλέφαντος
* Beth Lechem is Elephantine
* Identifying the Elephant with Elephantine is a matter of folk-etymology
* Elephantine is a store-house, Granary , Market-place, House of Bread
Leviticus 2:6
- Thou shalt part (meat or bread) into pieces
- κλάσματα ( Klasmata) * remnants of food
In this verse, 'break apart bread' ( morsel) is פַּת/פָּתַת (Pathath)
- Gen 18:5 " morsel of bread "
- LXX ἄρτον καὶ φάγεσθε , PAGESTHE > PATHATH
- פַּת/פָּתַת (Pathath) derives from φάγεσθε ( Phagesthe)
φάγεσθε (Phagesthe) is the root word for פֶּסַח ( Pacach ) "Passover offerings " , NT - πάσχα ( Pasxa) .
Feast of Unleavened bread, known as מַצָּה (Matstsah ) is found in Aeschylus Agamemnon Verse 1035 ( written around 500 BCE )
"or even Alkmene’s son, men say, once endured to be sold and to eat the bread (μάζης) of slavery."
- μάζης' (Mazhs) = מַצָּה (Matstsah ) " Unleavened Bread or Barley Cake"
The Romans called the Greeks "barley eaters." The poor's barley bread would often even contain chaff in it, as the flour wouldn't have been finely sifted, it was also the food of the Romans gladiators and Spartan Helots.
The Ides of Nisan, coincides with the Latin festival Anna Perenna
* Barley-Cakes ( Matzo, μάζης ) are sacred to Anna Perenna
* Anna Perenna (Ides of March) Passover/Feast of Matzo ( Ides of Nisan)
* Ovid identifies Anna Perenna with the sister of Dido ( founder of Carthage)
* The ' Passover' Letter of Elephantine ( Passover is Spartan in origin )