Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

I always thought that the Greek and Hebrew spellings were arrived at 
independently of each other.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>

> 
>
> 
> The name is of course Persian. The Greek forms probably derive from the 
> Persian, possibly through an Aramaic form as Aramaic was the court 
> language of the time. It is very unlikely that the Greek spelling 
> derives from the Hebrew.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
> 
> 
> 

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