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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Karl Randolph <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 53:8
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:54:03 +0000

On 10/12/2004 21:27, Karl Randolph wrote:

...(incidently, when the Jewish writers of the New Testament looked at Koiné Greek and
saw it too lacked a generalized term for "sin", they used the archery term
referring to missing the target, wonder where they got that idea from?).


Perhaps from the LXX, where hAMARTIA is used 541 times (plus hAMARTHMA 36 times, hAMARTWLOS 178 times, and the verb hAMARTANW), in very many of those cases as a generalised term for "sin".

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