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This last is more likely because Greek and Latin did not have a V sound and so used beta or B for the V sound when these names were transliterated from Hebrew.
Yes, I realised this afterwards, and also that the b in oriental communities probably comes from the Arabic lack of a bh or v phoneme... Still, there is some evidence for bh rather than v as an original undotted-bet.
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