To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Eve/Chavvah.
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 17:21:25 +0200
>Basically, since Greek has no letter equivilant to the Heth in Hawwah ("X"
>is a "Kh"), it used an Eta (H). This was then picked up by the Latin as
>Eva, Eve etc.
Strangely enough, it's not that straightforward.
Hebron in Greek was xebrwn.
Habur was xabwr(as).
Hadad (Gen 25:15) was xodad (& variations).
Placenames fared better than people's names.
However, you will find chi for khet in some
people's names in the LXX. Hilkiah is usually
xelkias (as in 2 Kgs 22), but in Ezra and
Nehemiah it is elkias.