Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

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From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com

> In a message dated 1/25/2004 2:27:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> kwrandolph AT email.com writes:
> I noticed that these terms were used exclusively to refer to soldiers. What 
> made me suspect that it may refer to classes of professional soldiers was 
> the 
> realization that the PLTY is always written with a definite article prefix 
> in 
> Tanakh, which would have had a pronunciation of “hapeleti”. This sounds 
> awfully similar to a class of soldiers among the Greeks, who had imported a 
> lot of 
> their culture along with their alphabet from Semitic sources.
> 
> The terms, as well as the weaponry, may have been Philistine, but in the 
> list 
> of David’s top soldiers, almost all of them were native Israelis (2 Samuel 
> 23).
> _________
> 
> Are you implying that the Greek "hoplite" derives from this?
> 
> gfsomsel

Any reason why not?

Karl W. Randolph.

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