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To: agere_contra

Thanks for that. I wonder what the Aramaic word ‘cephas’ means, assuming it has an everyday meaning.


9 posted on 06/01/2015 8:44:29 AM PDT by expat2
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To: expat2

Cephas means “Rock”.

I seem to remember it’s a hard C, like KEY-phas. If that’s true, it sounds a bit like like the ringing sound you get from striking stone with a hammer.


10 posted on 06/01/2015 8:47:54 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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