The word for star also meant a heavenly event, such as a grouping of the moon, planets and stars to form a pattern. This can be predicted well in advance, which allowed the wise men to travel. “Stood and rose before them…” The standing is where the Earth moves quicker and a planet appears to go backwards. The rising is rising with the Sun. The pattern they calculated seemed to mean that a king would be born in Judea.
The Greeks used a base 60 number system. Alpha was one, Beta was 2, and so on. Eta was 8, Lambda was 30. 3 × 60^0 + 8 × 60^-1 + 30 × 60^-2 = 3.14167 or Gamma Eta Lambda
The word for star also meant a heavenly event, such as a grouping of the moon, planets and stars to form a pattern. This can be predicted well in advance, which allowed the wise men to travel. “Stood and rose before them…” The standing is where the Earth moves quicker and a planet appears to go backwards. The rising is rising with the Sun. The pattern they calculated seemed to mean that a king would be born in Judea.