A Liquid Excretion Product

Mark & Mary Markham markhamm at topsurf.com
Tue Sep 8 00:47:06 EDT 1998


C. Smith wrote:

Inspired Version: ?

But in regards to the translations-- isn't male an equilivent as opposed to
the lit.  I don't see a problem with  most translations here? I am currious
as to what is the concern or why the question.
Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy Smith <cms at dragon.com>
To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
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Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: A Liquid Excretion Product


>Not to be impolite:  I'm curious about the KJV's use of the term
>"piss" or "pisseth against the wall" in the following passages (I
>can't transliterate the Hebrew but can give the Septuagint):
>
>1 Samuel 25:22  TADE POIHSAI hO THEOS TW DAVID KAI TADE PROS EIA EI
>hUPOLEIPSOMAI EK PANTWN TWN TOU NABAL hEWS PRWI OUROUNTA PROS TOIXON.
>
>Vulgate:  haec faciat Deus inimicis David et hae addat si reliquero de
>omnibus quae ad eum pertinent usque mane mingentem ad parietem.
>
>NRSV:  God so so to David and more also, if by morning I leave so much
>as one male of all who belong to him.
>
>NABWRNT:  May God do thus and so to David, if by morning I leave a
>single male alive maong all those who belong to him.
>
>NJB:  May God bring unnameable ills on David and worse ones, too, if
>by morning I leave a single manjack alive of all who belong to him!
>
>NIV:  May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I
>leave alive one male of all who belong to him!
>
>Inspired Version:  So and more also do God unto the enemies of David,
>if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that
>pisseth against the wall.
>
>NKJV:  May God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I
>leave one male of all who belong to him by morning light.
>
>ASV:  God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave
>of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one
>man-child.
>
>How do you translate shathan and qiyr?
>
>Cf. 1 Samuel 25:22
> 1 Samuel 25:34
> 1 Kings 14:10
> 1 Kings 16:11
> 1 Kings 21:21
> 2 Kings 9:8
>
>Also cp.:
>
> 2 Kings 18:27 FAGEIN THN KOPRON AUTWN KAI PIEIN TO OURON
> AUTWN METH' hUMWN hAMA
>
> that they may eat their own dung, and drink
> their own piss with you?
>
> Isaiah 36:12 FAGWSIN KOPRON KAI PIWSIN OURON MEQ' hUMWN hAMA
>
> that they may eat their own dung, and drink
> their own piss with you?
>
>
>
>
>Cindy Smith
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