Biblical Hebrew Forum

["David and Toby Curwin" <tobyndave AT hotmail.com>]

Hi -
 
On my site I recently wrote about the Hebrew letters sin and shin:
 
http://www.balashon.com/2007/01/shin-and-sin.html
 
And in the comments there:
 
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/curwin/5121195073571322268/
 
someone brought up an interesting question:
 

"In Greek there was no "sh" sound, so many proper names were translated with
"s": Moshe / Moses, Shlomo / Solomon, Shmuel / Samuel.

I've noticed this. The mystery to me is those biblical proper names that do
have "sh" in English: e.g., Asher, Ishmael, Jehoshaphat, Joshua, Shiphrah
(which are all I can think of off hand)."


I find this question very interesting, but I have not been able to find any
answer. Do you have any possible explanation?
 
Feel free to respond to me, or in the comments there.
 
Thanks,
 
David Curwin
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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
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