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How Phoenicia and Canaan got it's name.

Magus

Active Member
here is my own theory on the word Phoenicia and it as to do with the Phoenician letter Qoph became two Greek letters, Qoppa and Phi .

קַיִן QIN
קֵינִי QINI > φοινί ( Phoini )
קְנִזִּי QNZI > φοινίκων ( Phoinikon )

The evidence i have for this is Job 29:18
εἶπα δέ ἡ ἡλικία μου γηράσει ὥσπερ στέλεχος φοίνικος πολὺν χρόνον βιώσω

φοίνικος in the Hebrew text is 'קִנִּי ' (Qeni ) > φοίνι

Qeni is used in a parable describing Kenites in Numbers 24:21, the Greek writes it as νοσσιάν ( Nossian ) and a similar parable occurs in Jeremiah 22:23

'Λιβάνῳ ἐννοσσεύουσα ἐν ταῖς κέδροις
O Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars

φοῖνιξ ( Pheonix ) is also a long-lived bird of regeneration '

'ni-ke' /νίκη meaning 'for ever or prevail '
nasiy' ( נָשִׂיא ) means Mist/Vapour, νίφα ' Snow and φ > קִ ' Nika / νίκη , Hebrew נַחַל 'winter torrents'
and νεφέλας ( Cloud) and נָפַח ' Breath '.

What does it have to do with Lebanon , is named for it's white-capped mountains , the snow makes its nest on the rocks , they melt in the spring-summer and regenerate in the autumn-winter . That is my origin of the Phoenix.

χῖον means Snow , as a locative noun χῖονὼν that is כְּנַעַן ( Canaan )
and χῖον through dialects became φοῖν ( Phoenix ) ' φ > קִ '

Cain, Kenite , Kenaz, Canaan , Phoenica and Ashkĕnaz are cognitive.
note ' אַשְׁכְּנַז also written אַשְׁפְּנַז ( Dn 1:3)
Ασχαναζ >Ασφανεζ ( e.g χῖον > φοῖν )
 
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