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2 Maccabees 1:35-36
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Maccabees 1:35-36
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
35 To those whom the king favored, he distributed many benefits he received. 36 Nehemiah and his companions called the liquid nephthar, meaning purification, but most people named it naphtha.[a](A)
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- 1:36 By a play on words, the Greek term naphtha (petroleum) is assimilated to some Semitic word, perhaps nephthar, meaning “loosened.”
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