"Branch" is a translation of the Hebrew "Tsemax". "Sunrise" is "Zarax". My guess would be that the vorlage used by the LXX had ZRX instead of CMX by scribal error and translated accordingly. Interesting, since Zerah is also the brother of Perez, son of Judah, from whom David (and the Messiah) is descended.The issue is actually more complicated than this, because the name is clearly deliberately linked to the verb YICMAX later in verse. LXX has ANATOLH "rising, sunrise, moonrise, east" for the name and ANATELEI "will rise" for the verb. The double change cannot be accounted for by simple scribal error, and suggests to me that the Greek translator actually took CMX to mean "rise" rather than "branch". And in fact this corresponds well with the BDB definition of the verb as "sprout, spring up", and the noun as "sprout, growth", a sense which fits quite well with the LXX renderings, if understood as related to plants rather than the sun.
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