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

  1. A former Hebrew unit of dry volume

Ancestry of “ephah”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hebrewאֵיפָה—
2Egyptianjptoipe, a dry measure of volume equivalent to 4...
3Egyptian-tUsed to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An...
4Proto-Afro-Asiatic-t—
Every word from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t →Every word from Egyptian -t →Every word from Egyptian jpt →