Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Isaac:

Look at the Masoretic points, and you can see that the second vowel had
completely dropped out by the time of the Masoretes. What the doubled
consonant following that second vowel in the LXX indicates is that the
preceding vowel is unstressed at the time of the LXX pronunciation, but
still present.

But even the LXX pronunciation is not the same as Biblical pronunciation.
The latter has been lost, and I see no way it can be recovered. But we can
still read the text.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

> In Gen. 41:45 I see the name אסנת transliterated by the LXX as
> Ασεννεϑ (why the double n?)
>
> In Gen. 26:34 I see the name בשמת transliterated by the LXX as
> Βασεμμαϑ (why the double m?)
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University