Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George Athas" <gathas AT ausisp.com>]

Greek uses cases endings whereas Hebrew does not. All names in Greek must 
have a case
ending. In the case of Shelomoh, the case ending given accords with the Greek 
third
declension nominative case ending: -n. Hence, Shelomoh came to be Salomon or 
Solomon.

It's a common phenomenon. It's just that most of the time, the case endings 
end with a
Greek sigma: -s. When a personal name ended in a consonant, a case ending was 
usually not
appended. However, most of the time when the name ended with a vowel sound, a 
case ending
was appended.

Some other examples:

Hebrew                Greek
-----------------------------------
Mosheh      =>    Moeses
Yehoshua   =>    Iesous
Yesha`yah  =>     Esaias
Ezra            =>    Ezras / Esdras
Nehemyah  =>   Neemias