Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Marko:

An additional clue can be found in grammar, in that one expects to find a 
place name in that part of the sentence. As for the etymology of the name, 
that is a separate question, it may even have a non-Hebrew background.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>

> Dear Marko,
> 
> >It has been suggested that the LXX translator of Zechariah 12:11 read
> >the Hebrew MGD[W]N as a verb or verbal noun deriving from GDD or (less
> >commonly) GD(. Do you agree with this and if you do, how would you parse
> >the word and/or translate it literally?
> 
> HH: That seems right, although GD( seems less likely to me, as I can't
> understand why the ( would drop. The translator might have seen it as a
> derived noun meaning place of cutting off.
> 
> >Among the proposals for the
> >latter I have seen "the place of the cut down", "his place of gathering
> >troops", and "attacking", for example.
> 
> HH: It's probably good to stick with "Megiddo," however. See the evidence
> collected in Gesenius-Kautch-Cowley 85v. The LXX translator is often not to
> be followed in the later books.
> 
>                               Yours,
>                               Harold Holmyard
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