Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>]

I wonder is DRAXASQE here must be based on emended Hebrew. Can it mean
something like "embrace"? If so, it might be a euphemism for "kiss". And
PAIDEIAS "instruction" could be an error by a Greek copyist for PAIDOS or
PAIDIOU "servant", "child" which could represent Aramaising Hebrew BAR
"son". So this is not necessarily a witness to a different Hebrew text.

According to BDB s.v. BAR I a Targum reads "receive instruction". Of course
this may be dependent on LXX, as the similar Vulgate reading surely is.
Aquila, Symmachus and Jerome (presumably in his psalter based on the Hebrew)
have "kiss purely, do sincere homage", which is clearly based on MT with BAR
understood as "pure".

Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-hebrew-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of c stirling bartholomew
> Sent: 27 May 2003 20:58
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa.
> 2:12
> 
> on 5/27/03 11:09 AM, Deborah Millier wrote:
> 
> > A (hopefully) quick question: what are your educated
> > speculations as to what the translator(s) of the LXX's
> > rendition of Psa. 2:12(DRAXASTHE PAIDEIAS, "[you all]
> > trap instruction"?) was reading in the Hebrew.  I, for
> > the life of me, can't come up with a satisfactory
> > back-translation that explains the substantive
> > differences of wording and concepts between the LXX
> > and MT there.  Can anyone help?
> >
> > -- Michael Millier
> 
> Michael
> 
> Looks like a textual problem.
> 
> LEH entry for DRASSOMAI
> 
> Lv 2:2; 5:12; Nm 5:26; Ps 2:12; Jdt 13:7 4:41 to grasp, to lay hold of
> [tino"] Jdt 13:7; to take (by handfuls)  [ti] Lv 2:2;
>     *Ps 2:12 dravxasqe -nsw or ns¹w to accept  for MT nshqw kiss
>     Cf. DUBARLE 1955, 510-511; HELBING 1928, 128
> 
> greetings, Clay
> 
> 
> --
> Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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