The Two Babylons root "*aus-", meaning "dawn," potentially by way of . "Ishtar" is a Semitic name of uncertain etymology, possibly taken from the same root as Assyria, or from a semitic word meaning "to irrigate." Hislop ultimately claimed to trace Catholic doctrines back to the worship of Nimrod, asserting that the Roman Catholic Church represented Whore of Babylon of the Book of Revelation and that "the Pope himself is truly and properly the lineal representative of Belshazzar". He claimed that the Christogram IHS, the first three Greek letters in the name of Jesus, represented Latin characters standing for Isis, Horus and Seb.
English words of Greek origin Many words from the Hebrew Bible were transmitted to the western languages through the Greek of the Septuagint, often without morphological regularization: "rabbi" (ραββί), "seraphim" (σεραφείμ, σεραφίμ), "paradise" (παράδεισος < Hebrew < Persian), "pharaoh" (Φαραώ < Hebrew < Egyptian). Many Greek words, especially those borrowed through the literary tradition, are recognizable as such from their spelling. Latin had standard orthographies for Greek borrowings: Greek was written as 'y', as 'ph', as 'c', rough breathings as 'h', "etc." These conventions (which originally reflected pronunciation) have carried over into English and other languages with historical orthography (like French). They make it possible