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They are no active volcanoes in the Middle East instead the 'Volcanic' language in the Old Testament is actually opposite in meaning and referring too Mount Hermon and the winter torrents that form from this mountain that feed the streams and rivers of the Levant. Why does the Hebrew Bible refer to ...

Copper, Brass or Bronze - Aeneus, Aheneus, Aes ( Latin) - NKS, NKUS, NHS, NKHS, NKHST ( Phoenician) The root meaning seems to be κνηκός ( Knhkos) also written κνακός (Knakos) meaning 'Tawny' ( the color of Brass) and related too Sanskrit Kancanam. The Latin version of word is the same word as the Tr...

There seems to be contradictions considering the whereabouts of the Gold. 1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber. 2Ch 20:36 He joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the shi...

The word is a status rather then an actual sect and relates too all the Biblical names that are prefixed אבי (Ἥβη) "one arrived at adolescence", cognates include ἠβαιόν ( Hbaion) "Small" Iuvenis "Youth" , Juventas and Juvenile.

NEDA - A river of Peloponnesus which forms the boundary between Messenia and Elis before flowing into the Ionian Sea Pausanias 8.41.3 A river called the Lymax flowing just beside Phigalia falls into the Neda , and the river, they say, got its name from the cleansing of Rhea . For when she had given ...

Sintians ( Σίντιες) " the Raiders, the Plunderers once inhabited the area of Sintice and the island of Lemnos 1. Sintians worshiped Hephaestus 2. "Off wild speech" 3. city of Heraclea Sintica at the foot of an extinct volcano on the land of Rupite, Bulgaria Genesis 10:7 - Sinite - סינ...

חרס ( HRC) also written חרש (HRS) " Craftsman " and thus Hephaestus / Vulcan would be a better fit here. - 1 Samuel 23:16 - David went into the Horesh ( written Καινὴν ) 1 Chronicles 4:14 misreads " Valley of Craftsman " but should instead be " Islands of Horesh" , Patr...

1Ki 9:26 king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. על־שפת ים־סוף בארץ אדום׃ - ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλους τῆς ἐσχάτης θαλάσσης ἐν γῇ Εδωμ The Septuagint is not reading ' Red Sea ' but instead ἐσχάτης θαλάσσης "Uppermost Sea&quo...

It is more accurate to translate 'god destroyed' then 'god created' , you can't destroy 'nothing'. Gen 1:1 - In the Beginning God destroyed the Heaven and Earth Gen 1:2 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness The word 'ברא is used in Joshua 17:5 "to cut down something' בר ( Refined...

'Create' is a Christian minded word, which implies, "From nothing "
- Gen 1:1 : God created from nothing the sky and Earth (Theological)

How it is in Ancient Hebrew.
- Gen 1:1 God 'did-something' to the Sky and Earth ( Logical)