Where does “ephah” come from?
ephah (English) comes from Hebrew אֵיפָה, from Egyptian jpt, from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.
ephah (English): A former Hebrew unit of dry volume
Definitions
- A former Hebrew unit of dry volume
Ancestry of “ephah”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Hebrew | אֵיפָה | — |
| 2 | Egyptian | jpt | oipe, a dry measure of volume equivalent to 4... |
| 3 | Egyptian | -t | Used to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An... |
| 4 | Proto-Afro-Asiatic | -t | — |