[B-Greek] 1 Sam 2:26 AGAQON
Kenneth Litwak
javajedi2 at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 27 01:51:23 EST 2008
I'm looking at 1 Sam 2:26 in both Hebrew and Greek. Part of the Greek says SAMUHL EPOREUETO KAI EMEGALUNETO KAI AGAQON KAI META KURIOU KAI META ANQRWPWN, which seems to mean something like "Samuel was going and was growing also good both with the Lord and with people. However AGAQON translates a Hebrew participle and therefore it seems that this might not be what is meant. I'm pondering whether to try to force the Greek to have a meaning similar to the Hebrew (since this part of the LXX is fairly "literal" in its rendering of the Hebrew text as opposed to, say, Isaiah or Micah) or to try to come up with a reasonable translation of the Greek on its own, supposing that most who used the OG did not know the underlying Hebrew. Any comments?
Ken
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