sentences:  R. S. P. Beekes believes that their name is of non-Indo-European, pre-Greek origin.In the past, the Semitic word "kabir" ("great") has been compared to Κάβειροι since at least Joseph Justus Scaliger in the sixteenth century, but nothing else seemed to point to a Semitic origin, until the idea of "great" gods expressed by the Semitic root "kbr" was definitively attested for North Syria in the thirteenth century BCE, in texts from Emar published by D. Arnaud in 1985–87.Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling connected the Greek word to the Hebrew חבר ("khaver" "friend, associate") and via this to several priest names as one attached to the Persians ("Chaverim"), linking them to the Dioskouri or priestly blacksmiths alternatively.