“So of course, someone came up with MAGABEES from this! “
Kol ha’kvod!
Brilliant.
One Maccabee, it’s related in Josephus, attacked a giepant elephant, thinking its rider must be a high officer in the Greek army. He stabbed the elephant with his spear, it fell on him, and he died. The rider was just a non-com with a big elephant. There’s a lesson in that somewhere. I just recall the story.