septuagint - how many times agape (english) appears
lakr
lakr at netcom.com
Tue Oct 13 11:51:01 EDT 1998
>
> I can not figuare out how to find agape in the Septuagint. Is there
> aconcordance for it???? I'm trying to find when the word agape first came
> into use in greek.
>
> Thanks
> Bob Sackett
>
Bob, I did a quick (and probably inaccurate) search for AGAPH in the LXX.
I find 88 hits, but did not attempt to account for all inflections.
The first one I find is in Ge 22:2, where the masoretic text has the word
)HBT (ahav) and the Greek text has HGAPHSAS.
Sincerely,
Larry Kruper
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