Friday, 4 January 2013

Byblos=بيبلوس


Byblos=بيبلوس

From which derives the Greek word βιβλίο=book and the word Βίβλος =Bible=الانجيل


ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY

Byblos
ancient Phoenician port (modern Jebeil, Lebanon) from which Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece. The name probably is a Greek corruption of Phoenician Gebhal, said to mean lit. "frontier town" (cf. Hebrew gebhul "frontier, boundary," Arabic jabal "mountain"), or perhaps it is Canaanite gubla "mountain." The Greek name also might have been influenced by, or come from, an Egyptian word for "papyrus."

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