[B-Greek] 1 Sam 2:26 AGAQON

Albert Pietersma albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Sat Dec 27 02:12:02 EST 2008


On Dec 27, 2008, at 1:51 AM, Kenneth Litwak wrote:

>  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?
"Literal" or not, the Greek means what a speaker of Greek would take  
it to mean. Put differently, a translation equivalent does not take on  
an 'usual' sense unless that sense can be shown to be part of the  
living language. NETS (Bernard Taylor) translates the verse as  
follows: "And the boy Samouel kept going and became great and was in  
favor with the Lord and with people."
Al
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