Space Time, Degrees and Hours Minutes Seconds, and Clocks

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Amounts

• Hebrew Mna Amount - Manna

Degrees

1. French degré stepping down (or deeper)
2. Latin gradus Grades or Steps
3. Greek bathmos Depth, Basics, Standing 1 Tim 3:13
4. Hebrew ma-ala Steps, see "Degrees" based on a 360° Circle 2 Kings 20:9-11

Hours

• Greek Ora, Latin Hora John 11:9 similar to Era or Moment in English
• Hebrew Sha-a Moment (Hour) translation Daniel, Specific Look (Respect) Gen 4:4
  • Minute Latin minutum (mite smallest coin), Greek lepto, lepis (scales), lepton (smallest coin), Hebrew dakot (small)
  • Second Latin secunda, Greek defteros, Hebrew shniyot (second level of smallness)

A Brief History of Clocks in Foreign Languages

1. Klok Dutch, klocka Swedish, klokke Norwegian, kello Finnish,
2. Chasy Russian, Kurokku Japanese, Si-gye Korean, Zhong Chinese
3. Uhr (Oo-a) German
   The German word for "clock" is "Uhr". It does indeed come from an old word for "hour," as it means both "clock" and "o'clock" and is used for telling time. It is believed to be related to the Proto-Indo-European word for time and was also influenced by the Latin word for hour, "hora"

   Stunde (from a very old word "stand") is the modern German word for hour.

    

4. Sundial and Clock is Horologio in Latin, Horloge French, Orologio Italian, Reloj (Ray-lo) in Spanish, Relogio Portuguese
   Roloi (Ro-loyee) ρολόι in Modern Greek
   Steps or Stairs or Degrees Anabathmos in Biblical Greek

    

5. As mentioned earlier, Sundial and Degrees is Ma'ala in Biblical Hebrew
   Modern word for clock in Hebrew Shia'on שָׁעוֹן Sha-on based on that word for Specific Look (Respect) in Gen 4:4

Finally, the sundial mentioned in Isaiah 38:8 translations below

In English: Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

In Greek: The shadow of the steps (anabathmos) on which the sun has gone down, the ten steps of your father's house, I will turn the sun back ten steps, and the sun will go up ten steps on which the shadow has gone down.

In Latin: Behold, I will make the shadow of the steps, which it had gone down on the dial (Horologio) of Ahaz, go back ten steps ..

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