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You can add the usage of "Biblical Greek" to this name, for the name appears 25 times in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)... namely in the deuterocanonical books of 1 Maccabees (17 verses) and 2 Maccabees (8 verses). I will list all of the verses below, but you will have to look them up yourself, lest this comment becomes extremely long.- 1 Maccabees (Old Testament):
• chapter 1: verse 18
• chapter 3: verse 38
• chapter 10: verses 51, 55 and 57
• chapter 11: verses 3, 8, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 18
• chapter 15: verse 16
• chapter 16: verses 11, 16, 18 and 21- 2 Maccabees (Old Testament):
• chapter 1: verse 10
• chapter 4: verses 21, 45 and 46
• chapter 6: verse 8
• chapter 8: verse 8
• chapter 9: verse 29
• chapter 10: verse 12Sources used:
- http://greekdoc.com/bible/names/pt.html#πτο (in English)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Πτολεμαῖος#Inflection (in English)
- Elpenor's Bilingual (Greek/English) Old Testament: https://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/septuagint/default.asp (in English)
- Kata Biblon Greek Septuagint: https://en.katabiblon.com/us/index.php?text=LXX (in English)

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