Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 10/01/2005 23:28, Jim West wrote:

> At 06:16 PM 1/10/2005, you wrote
>
> > I believe that in Greek the neuter plural SABBATA is commonly used 
> > for a singular Sabbath. I know that is regular usage in the New 
> > Testament,
>
>
> Now hold on- you just scourged me for mentioning the New Testament....
>
> > not sure about LXX without checking. And in Greek a neuter plural 
> > noun would be referenced with a neuter plural pronoun, without 
> > implying true plurality. So this is probably an issue in the Greek 
> > rather than the Hebrew.
>
>
> Isn't this a Hebrew forum and as such, sticking strictly to the rules, 
> isn't greek, even LXX greek out of bounds?
A fair point, Jim.

First, I didn't scourge you for mentioning the New Testament, but rather 
for starting a new thread about a New Testament only issue, with only a 
tenuous relevance to the thread it was based on.

In this case, I was answering Hayyim's question about the Hebrew text, 
and his suggestion that the LXX reflected a different Vorlage, by 
clarifying his understanding of Greek. I mentioned the New Testament 
only as a qualification to my knowledge of Greek.

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