Jericho - City of Palm trees

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Saboi

Jericho - City of Palm trees

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Deuteronomy 34:3 - ואת־הככר בקעת ירחו עיר התמרים
1. Jericho, the city of palm trees ( KJV)
2. Round fortified city of the Phoenicians

The Septuagint reads הככר בקעת as one word περίχωρα "Round place" for the word ככר is κύκλῳ "Ring/Circle".

1. περίχωρος "Round Place"
2. περιοχή "containing, enclosing"
3. περιοικέω "Dwell around"
4. Ιεριχω "Jericho"

ἵζευ - ישב "Dwell, Sitting place"
σκήνη - שכנה "Dwell, Reside, booth"

The first time Jordan appears in the Torah, it's described as a ככר (Kikkar) but reads as περίχωρον
in Genesis 13:11 and oddly described in Joshua.

Josh 6:1 Jordan was straitly shut
* סגרת (Sagarat)
συγκεκλεισμένη (LXX)

*מסגרת (Masagarat)
ὠχυρωμένη "Fortify" ( ὀχυρόω = צר )

Ugarit (ὀχυρός)

Numbers 13:28 : הערים בצרות - πόλεις ὀχυραὶ
Ezekiel 36:35 : בצורות ישבו - ὀχυραὶ ἐκάθισα
Joshua 14:12 : ערים גדלות בצרות - πόλεις ὀχυραὶ
2 Kings 10:2 : עיר מבצר - πόλεις ὀχυραὶ
2 Samuel 5:7 : מצדת ציון - περιοχὴν Σιων
Ecclesiastes 9:14 : מצודים גדלים - χάρακας μεγάλους
2 Samuel 24:7 : מבצר־צר - Μαψαρ Τύρου
Ezekiel 4:2 : מצור - περιοχὴν
Joshua 19:35 : ערי מבצר ה צדים צר : πόλεις τειχήρεις τῶν Τυρίων Τύρος

מצרים
מבצרים
צור
מצור
מצרות
מצורה
מצרת

ר > ד (copyist error)
במצדה
מצוד
Saboi

Re: Jericho - City of Palm trees

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The word κύκλῳ describes the two rivers of Eden as a translation of סבב.

The first river is called פישון /Φισων also written קישון.
*ק/Φ

This river described in Judges 5:21 as קדומים נחל "Qaduwm nachal"
and the word קדומים is φθάμενος from φθάνω (קθάν > קθν > קדמ)
* פישון/קישון/φθάσων.

נחל : χειμάρρους "Flowing in winter"
עדן : πεδίον/בקעה "Plain"

The word πεδίον appear as Padan Aram (פדנה ארם) from πεδίον ἁρμῶν "Plain between two junctions"
although the translators tend to confuse this with Mesopotamia, but this is the Plain
between the two junctions of Orontes & Litani called Coele-Syria or Beqaa (בקעה ).
Saboi

Re: Jericho - City of Palm trees

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התמרים
This could be a place-name "Tamaria" or perhaps "Samaria".

According too Kings, Samaria was founded by Omri and note the similarity between עמרי (Omri) and עמרה (Amorah/Gomorrah).

Throughout the Bible, Sodom is paired with Gomorrah but in Ezekiel, Sodom is paired
with Samaria.

Ezekiel 16:34
Elder sister is Samaria & Younger sister is Sodom

עמר - Omri & Gomorrah
שמר - Samaria, Wine
תמר - Palm Tree
גמר - Gamar
חמר - Wine

Psalm 75:8
The wine is RED (יין חמר) (Gk. οἴνου ἀκράτου )
dregs (שמר) - (Gk. τρυγίας)

Isaiah 25:6
wines on the lees well refined
ממחים שמרים מזקקים
οἶνον χρίσονται μύρον
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