In Rahlfs' edition of the LXX, the OG says KETEI (1:17Surely the latter is more likely. At least I don't like to even speculate that a translation implies a different underlying text when the translation (as also all modern English ones!) is a perfectly acceptable translation of the MT as it stands. And there is no correlation between gender in Greek and gender in Hebrew, except in most (not all e.g. PAIDION, QUGATRION) cases for obvious male/female differences.
= 2:1) and KETOUS (2:2) (i.e. whale or large sea
creature), with both nouns being *neuter*. Hmmmm,
looks like the Hebrew ur-text(s) recorded no gender
differences (i.e. DAG, DAG, or DAGAH, DAGAH), or that
there has been some harmonizing going on. Or that the
"discrepancy" didn't bother those who translated
Yonah's story into Greek.
-- Michael Millier
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.