Biblical Hebrew Forum

[c stirling bartholomew <cc.constantine AT worldnet.att.net>]

Peter,

Here is a summary of how neshaq is rendered in the LXX,

DRASSOMAI Psa. 2:12 where LEH suggests that it represents a different
reading. 


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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

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KATEFILHSAN

LEH- Gn 31:28; 32:1; 45:15; Ex 4:27; 1 Sm 20:41
    to kiss, to embrace  [tina] (between relatives) Gn 31:28; id.  [tina]
(in greeting) 2 Sm 14:33; id.  [ti] Sir 29:5; to embrace each other
(metaph.) Ps 84(85):11 ...
    
PSA. 84:11 ELEOS KAI ALHQEIA SUNHNTHSAN DIKAIOSUNH KAI EIRHNH KATEFILHSAN

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EFILHSEN

LEH - to love  [tina] Est 10:3; to kiss  [tina] (between parents and
children) Gn 27:26; id.  [tina] (between a whore and a man) Prv 7:13; to
like, to be fond of  [ti] Prv 21:17; to kiss ...

EX. 18:7 EXHLQEN DE MWUSHS EIS SUNANTHSIN TWi GAMBRWi AUTOU KAI PROSEKUNHSEN
AUTWi KAI EFILHSEN AUTON KAI HSPASANTO ALLHLOUS KAI EISHGAGEN AUTON EIS THN
SKHNHN 


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PROSKUNEVW

LEH - to fall down and worship, to do reverence to, to do obeisance to, to
prostrate oneself before, to salute  [abs.] Gn 18:2; id.  [tini] (to pers.)
Gn 27:29; to fall down and worship  [tini] (to God) Gn 24:26; id.  [tini]
(to idols) Ps 96(97):7; id.  [tina] (to pers.) Gn 37:9; id.  [tina] (to God)
JgsA 7:15; id.  [ti] Gn 37:7; to bow down, to beg, to plead, to implore  Ex
11:8 ...

1KINGS 19:18 KAI KATALEIYEIS EN ISRAHL hEPTA CILIADAS ANDRWN PANTA GONATA hA
OUK WKLASAN GONU TWi BAAL KAI PAN STOMA hO OU PROSEKUNHSEN AUTWi

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You will note that out of the 40 examples I looked at in E.Tov's MT/LXX
database only 1KINGS 19:18 supplants the notion of kissing with something
else, worshiping. This doesn't make a case for euphanism in the LXX in
regard to neshaq. I think the LEH editors have done a good job here in
regard to DRASSOMAI  in Psa. 2:12.

greetings, Clay



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