Naked Bible 43: Acts 6-7
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The Name of a Deity, Sequth
The name Sequth is probably a reference to the Akkadian god, Sakut. In other words, instead of Yahweh being your king, it's this other dopey deity named Sequth. This Keon or Kaiwan deity, in the Hebrew text, you have Kafyod Vavnun. It comes from the fact that sometimes when Hebrew scribes encountered the name of a foreign hostile deity, they would remove the vowels and put in the vowels for the word shikuts, which means abomination.
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