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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: PS /g/
  • Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:28:27 -0500

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>

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>
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> 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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