 According to Semerano, though, since the word "péras" has a short "e", whereas "ápeiron" has a diphthong "ei" that reads as a long closed "e", the diphthong cannot be produced by the short "e" of "péras".Semerano derives it from a collision of the Semitic term "'apar", the biblical "'afar" and with the Akkadic "eperu", all meaning "earth".The notorious fragment of Anaximander, in which we read that all things originate and come back to the All'"ápeiron" would not be referred to a philosophical conception of endlessness, but to a concept of "belonging to the earth" that we can find in a previous sapiential tradition of Asian origin exemplified in the Bible